Shortlist 2025
For the second time, the OPUS KLASSIK jury has selected a shortlist.*
You can find an overview of the nominated projects as a PDF here.
*The categories "06 – Lifetime Achievement" and "29 – Bestseller of the Year" are excluded from the shortlist. Category "30 – Innovation Award for Sustainability" is presented in cooperation with Orchester des Wandels.
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Female Singer of the Year
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Male Singer of the Year
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Instrumentalist of the Year
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Conductor of the Year
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Composer of the Year
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Young Talent of the Year
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Orchestra/Ensemble of the Year
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Solo Recording Singing of the Year
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Solo Recording Instrument of the Year
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Concert Recording of the Year
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Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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Solo Live-Performance of the Year
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Orchestra/Ensemble Live-Performance of the Year
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Classic without Limits
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Classic without Limits LIVE
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Symphonic Recording of the Year
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Choral Recording of the Year
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Opera Recording of the Year
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World Premiere Recording of the Year
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Innovative Concert of the Year
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Tour of the Year
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Audiovisual Music Production of the Year
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Video Clip of the Year
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Innovative Listening Experience of the Year
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Film Music / Score of the Year
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New Classic / Neoclassic
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Prize for Promotion Young Talent (child and youth work)
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Innovation Award for Sustainability
Alexandre Tharaud
Alexandre Tharaud & Friends - Four Hands
Chamber Music Recording of the Year
Philipp Schupelius
Driven: Vivaldi | Rachmaninov
© Rüdiger Schestag
Solo Recording Instrument of the Year
Astrid Bscher
Ich leb' allein in meinem Himmel - Der Sänger Günther Groissböck
Audiovisual Music Production of the Year
Daniel Blumberg
The Brutalist
Film Music / Score of the Year
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Elchinger Musiktage e.V.
Elchinger Musiktage
© Yannic Hürholz
Innovation Award for Sustainability
Die Nixen
Oceankids
© Meike Kenn
Innovation Award for Sustainability
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Werkstatt ‘Zukunftstöne’, Ensemble Quillo
© Tom Schweers
Prize for Promotion Young Talent (child and youth work)
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Staatstheater Karlsruhe
FLOW -Tage der Nachhaltigkeit
© Chris Frühe
Innovation Award for Sustainability
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Junges Ensemble Musiktheater Hamburg
© Jörg Modrow
Prize for Promotion Young Talent (child and youth work)
Pascal Schumacher, Danae Dörken
Glass Two
New Classic / Neoclassic
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Musaik – Grenzenlos musizieren e.V.
© Martín Rebaza Ponce de León
Prize for Promotion Young Talent (child and youth work)
Kaan Bulak, Simon Höfele
No Clouds in Haraz
New Classic / Neoclassic
Florian Christl
Donau
New Classic / Neoclassic
Volker Bertelmann
Dune: Prophecy
Film Music / Score of the Year
Hans Zimmer & Kara Talve
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Film Music / Score of the Year
David Chalmin
Sonic Wires
Innovative Listening Experience of the Year
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Fragments II: Lili Boulanger
Innovative Listening Experience of the Year
Friedrich Wilhelm Rödding
Jörg Widmann: Piano Music
Innovative Listening Experience of the Year
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Philipp Schupelius
Driven: Vivaldi | Rachmaninov
© Rüdiger Schestag
Video Clip of the Year
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Aleksander Dębicz
„Cedar Tree” feat. Jakub Józef Orliński
© Honorata Karapuda
Video Clip of the Year
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Eldbjørg Hemsing
Bach Partita Variation
© Gregor Hohenberg
Video Clip of the Year
Alice Sara Ott
Field: Complete Nocturnes
Audiovisual Music Production of the Year
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The World of Hans Zimmer – A New Dimension
© Frank Embacher
Tour of the Year
Asmik Grigorian, Valentin Uryupin, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress
Audiovisual Music Production of the Year
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Aurora Orchestra & Abel Selaocoe
© Markus Werner
Tour of the Year
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Samy Deluxe feat. Mikis Takeover! Ensemble
Mirko Polo
Tour of the Year
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Stegreif e.V.
Freebruckner
© Alexander Ziegler
Innovative Concert of the Year
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Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni & La Follia
© Lucie Loqueneux
Innovative Concert of the Year
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Mozartfest Würzburg
Hell ist die Nacht
© Dita Vollmond
Innovative Concert of the Year
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Liedstadt
Liedstadt Opening
© Marieke Ziesmann
Innovative Concert of the Year
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Hanni Liang, Maya Dunietz
Broken Two. A Symphony
© Pinakothek der Moderne (Anna Kraus)
Innovative Concert of the Year
Oliver Triendl, Christiane Silber, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Maria Herz: Konzert für Klavier und Orchester, op. 4
World Premiere Recording of the Year
Rüdiger Lotter, Chor der Klangverwaltung, Hofkapelle München
Der Stein der Weisen oder Die Zauberinsel
World Premiere Recording of the Year
Jess Gillam, Karl Jenkins, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Stravaganza
World Premiere Recording of the Year
Rachael Wilson, Benjamin Bruns, Christopher Maltman, Patrick Hahn, Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Zemlinsky: Eine florentinische Tragödie
Opera Recording of the Year
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Coro & Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real
Weinberg: The Passenger
Opera Recording of the Year
Sophie Gordeladze, Marcus Bosch, Cappella Aquileia
Giuseppe Verdi: GIOVANNA D’ARCO
Opera Recording of the Year
Felix Koch, Gutenberg Soloists
Georg Philipp Telemann: Kantaten - Französischer Jahrgang 1714/1715 Vol. 4
Choral Recording of the Year
Voces8
Nightfall
Choral Recording of the Year
Paul van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble
Max Reger: Melancholy (Vocal Works)
Choral Recording of the Year
Nathalie Stutzmann, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Dvořák: Sinfonie Nr. 9 "From the New World", American Suite
Symphonic Recording of the Year
Philipp von Steinaecker, Mahler Academy Orchestra
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 on Period Instruments
Symphonic Recording of the Year
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Johannes Klumpp, Heidelberger Sinfoniker
Haydn Sinfonien
© Peter Gwiazda
Symphonic Recording of the Year
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Tenebrae Choir
Georg Friedrich Händel: Oratorium "Messias" HWV 56
© Ansgar Klostermann
Orchestra/Ensemble Live-Performance of the Year
Golda Schultz
Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!
Solo Recording Singing of the Year
Samy Deluxe, Mikis Takeover! Ensemble
Samy Deluxe feat. Mikis Takeover! Ensemble
© Mirko Polo
Classic without Limits LIVE
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Daniel Hope & Friends
Irish Roots
© Daniel Hope
Classic without Limits LIVE
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Abel Selaocoe, Manchester Collective
Hymns of Bantu
© Henry J. Kamara
Classic without Limits LIVE
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TrioColores
En Couleur
© Akvilė Šileikaitė
Classic without Limits
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Louis Philippson
Exposition
© Gregor Hohenberg
Classic without Limits
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Malakoff Kowalski
Songs With Words
© Christian Werner
Classic without Limits
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Bryce Dessner
Solos
© Jens Koch
Classic without Limits
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Wallis Bird, Spark
Visions of Venus
© Gregor Hohenberg
Classic without Limits
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Alexandre Tharaud
Alexandre Tharaud & Friends - Four Hands
© Raphael Wertheimer
Classic without Limits
Augustin Hadelich, Orion Weiss
American Road Trip
Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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Aurora Orchestra
Aurora Orchestra & Abel Selaocoe in der Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
© Daniel Dittus
Orchestra/Ensemble Live-Performance of the Year
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Cappella Aquileia
Giuseppe Verdi: GIOVANNA D’ARCO
© Franca Wrage
Orchestra/Ensemble Live-Performance of the Year
Hayato Sumino
Hayato Sumino - Human Universe
© Clemens Sacher
Solo Live-Performance of the Year
Víkingur Ólafsson, Yuja Wang
Zu Gast in der Philharmonie Berlin: Yuja Wang & Víkingur Ólafsson
© Kirk Edwards & Ari Magg
Solo Live-Performance of the Year
Seong-Jin Cho
Ravel - The Complete Solo Piano Works
© Ben Wolf
Solo Live-Performance of the Year
Lucie Horsch, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
The Frans Brüggen Project
Chamber Music Recording of the Year
Baiba Skride, Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Concert Recording of the Year
Igor Levit, Christian Thielemann, Wiener Philharmoniker
Brahms: Piano Concertos & Solo Piano Opp. 116 – 119
Concert Recording of the Year
Frank Dupree, Dominik Beykirch, SWR Symphonieorchester
Kapustin: Klavierkonzerte Nr. 2 und 6
Concert Recording of the Year
Jan Lisiecki
Preludes
Solo Recording Instrument of the Year
Fazil Say
Oiseaux tristes
Solo Recording Instrument of the Year
Andrè Schuen
Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise
Solo Recording Singing of the Year
Pene Pati
Nessun Dorma
© Simon Fowler
Solo Recording Singing of the Year
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Quatuor Danel
Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets
© Marco Borggreve
Orchestra/Ensemble of the Year
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lautten compagney BERLIN
Dancing Queen - Rameau meets ABBA
© Robert Paul Kothe
Orchestra/Ensemble of the Year
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphonies - Concertos - Lady Macbeth
© Aram Boghosian
Orchestra/Ensemble of the Year
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Leia Zhu
Camille Saint-Saëns: Complete Concertos
© Nancy Horowitz
Young Talent of the Year
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Hayato Sumino
Human Universe
© Clemens Ascher
Young Talent of the Year
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Aigul Akhmetshina
Aigul
© Paola Kudacki
Young Talent of the Year
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Isabel Schicketanz
Seelentrost
© Julia Funke
Young Talent of the Year
Louis Philippson
Exposition
© Gregor Hohenberg
Young Talent of the Year
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Lionel Martin
Kabalewski: Cellokonzert Nr. 2 / Schostakowitsch: Sonate für Cello und Klavier / Tschaikowski: Rokoko-Variationen
© Hans Fahr
Young Talent of the Year
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Romain Leleu
Folies Parisiennes
© Amandine Lauriol
Young Talent of the Year
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Yunchan Lim
Chopin Études
© Yunchan Lim
Young Talent of the Year
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Yoav Levanon
Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz
© Simon Fowler
Young Talent of the Year
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Timothy Ridout
Telemann / Bach / Britten / Shaw
© Ting Ru-Lai
Young Talent of the Year
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Laurence Kilsby
AWAKENINGS
© Ben Reason
Young Talent of the Year
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Joana Mallwitz
The Kurt Weill Album
© Marco Borggreve
Conductor of the Year
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Joe Hisaishi
Joe Hisaishi in Vienna
© Omar Cruz
Composer of the Year
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Julius Asal
SCRIABIN – SCARLATTI
© Michael Reinicke
Young Talent of the Year
Bryce Dessner
Solos
© Jens Koch
Composer of the Year
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Jüri Reinvere
On the ship of Fools
© Kaupo Kikkas
Composer of the Year
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Paavo Järvi
Haydn: London Symphonies No. 94&99 / 95&98
© Julia Baier
Conductor of the Year
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Golda Schultz
Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!
© Vittorio Greco
Female Singer of the Year
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Antoine Tamestit
Joe Hisaishi in Vienna
© Julien Mignot
Instrumentalist of the Year
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Nathalie Stutzmann
Dvořák: Sinfonie Nr. 9 "From the New World", American Suite
© Simon Fowler
Conductor of the Year
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Lucienne Renaudin Vary
Winter Gardens (Jardins d'Hiver)
© Bernard Look
Instrumentalist of the Year
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Antje Weithaas
Pēteris Vasks, Violin Concerto No. 2
© Kaupo Kikkas
Instrumentalist of the Year
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Xenia Löffler
Bach's Oboe
© Daniel Maria Deuter
Instrumentalist of the Year
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Augustin Hadelich
American Road Trip
© Suxiao Yang
Instrumentalist of the Year
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Raphaela Gromes
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
© Michaela Weber
Instrumentalist of the Year
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Asya Fateyeva
Dancing Queen - Rameau meets ABBA
© Robert Paul Kothe
Instrumentalist of the Year
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Kirill Gerstein
Music in Time of War
© Andrej Grilc
Instrumentalist of the Year
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Seong-Jin Cho
Ravel - The Complete Solo Piano Works
© Ben Wolf
Instrumentalist of the Year
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Emily D'Angelo
Freezing
Female Singer of the Year
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Pene Pati
Nessun Dorma
© Simon Fowler
Male Singer of the Year
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Benjamin Appl
Lines of Life
© James Baillieu
Male Singer of the Year
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Fatma Said
Lieder
© Simon Fowler
Female Singer of the Year
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Benjamin Bernheim
Douce France
© Julia Wesely
Male Singer of the Year
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