l-r: Victor Orive Martin (DG), Senior Supervisor Worldwide Advertising, Yuya Okamoto, Philipp Zeidler (DG), Senior Government Producer (A&R & Advertising), Maria Nowak, María Dueñas, Dr. Clemens Trautmann, President Deutsche Grammophon und New Business Technique International Classics, Natasha Baldwin, President, International Classics, Jazz & Display screen, Common Music and UMP, Sabine Kindel (DG), Director Promotion & Label Communications, Michelle Teh, SVP International Classics and Jazz; Photograph courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon
On October sixteenth, the 2025 Gramophone Classical Music Awards ceremony occurred on the De Vere Connaught Rooms in central London. This 12 months, 4 of the celebrated awards have been offered to Deutsche Grammophon artists and recordings, together with two wins for violinist María Dueñas.
The Gramophone Awards yearly have fun the best recordings of the earlier twelve months, recognizing the achievements of artists, ensembles and labels. María Dueñas, the 22-year-old Spanish violinist and composer, took house two main awards. Not solely did her second DG album Paganini: 24 Caprices win the Instrumental Award, she was additionally named Younger Artist of the 12 months.
Gramophone assessed Dueñas’s readings of Paganini as “dazzling,” happening to reward her “luminously radiant and golden-toned, fluidly quicksilver technique.” Dueñas additionally handled the ceremony to a efficiency from that album and acknowledged in her acceptance speech: “it’s a great pleasure and honor… thank you for believing in the power of youth and curiosity in the arts, thank you so much for this recognition.”
The Chamber Award (sponsored by Wigmore Corridor) went to the album that includes Brahms’s Piano Quartets Nos. 2 and three made by pianist and DG artist Krystian Zimerman with violinist Maria Nowak, violist Katarzyna Budnik, and cellist Yuya Okamoto. “My warmest thanks to Gramophone for this recognition,” Zimerman stated, “to Deutsche Grammophon for their faith and patience, and to our audience – for listening, with open hearts.”
Conductor Joana Mallwitz and the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, in the meantime, took house the Orchestral Recording of the 12 months Award for The Kurt Weill Album. That includes the Berlin composer’s two symphonies in addition to the “sung ballet” Die sieben Todsünden, that is the debut DG album from Mallwitz, lately named OPUS KLASSIK’s Conductor of the 12 months 2025.
“On behalf of the musicians of the Konzerthausorchester and all those who have contributed to this CD – on and behind the stage – I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this award,” stated Mallwitz. “It honors us very much and we are very happy about it, also because it helps to bring Kurt Weill’s great works back into focus.”
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