International Classical Music Awards - Concert Gala 2025

A concert exclusively with winners! At the concert gala for the International Classical Music Awards, the winners perform works by such great composers as Mozart, Handel, Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky.
Among the stars of the evening are violinist Gidon Kremer, pianist Anna Gourari and countertenor Andreas Scholl.
The Düsseldorfer Symphoniker are conducted by Adam Fischer and five guest conductors.
The concert gala will take place in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and will be hosted by Claudia Belemann from Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

Programme

  • 0:00:00 - Countdown
  • 0:17:46 - WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Overture from “Le Nozze di Figaro”
    DÜSSELDORFER SYMPHONIKER
    ADAM FISCHER | Conductor
    Winners Special Achievement Award
  • 0:30:22 - LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, III. Rondo Allegro
    CAN CAKMUR | Piano
    Winner Solo Instrument Award
  • 0:42:46 - ANTAL DORATI: Piano Concerto, I. Movement
    OLIVER TRIENDL | Piano
    Winner Special Achievement Award
  • 1:04:56 - DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68, I. Overture: Moderato con moto
    DANEL QUARTET
    Winner Chamber Music Award
  • 1:19:03 - VALENTYN SILVESTROV: Serenade
    GIDON KREMER | Violin
    Winner Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 1:22:10 - VIKTOR KOSENKO: Dreams (arr. Andrei Pushkarev)
    GIDON KREMER | Violin
    Winner Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 1:31:18 - DAVID POPPER: Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68
    ETTORE PAGANO | Cello
    Winner Classeek Award
  • 1:41:38 - CHARLES GOUNOD: Je m’efforce en vain de te plaire, from “Le Tribut de Zamora”
    JÉRÔME BOUTILLIER | Baritone
    Winner Premiere Recordings Award
  • 1:50:08 - GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351, Overture
    LEONARDO GARCÍA-ALARCÓN | Conductor & Harpsichordist
    Artist of the Year
  • 2:23:23 - CHRISTOPH EHRENFELLNER: Wiener Blut 200 (world premiere)
    CHRISTOPH EHRENFELLNER | Composer & Conductor
    Winner Composer Award
  • 2:36:56 - PAUL HINDEMITH: The Four Temperaments, 2nd variation: Sanguinic
    ANNA GOURARI | Piano
    Winner Assorted Programs
  • 2:47:10 - PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62
    BENJAMIN KRUITHOF | Cello
    Young Artist of the Year
  • 2:56:03 - GUSTAV MAHLER: Revelge (from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”)
    LUKASZ BOROWICZ | Conductor
    SAMUEL HASSELHORN | Baritone
    Winner Vocal Music
  • 3:04:56 - ANTONIO VIVALDI: Stabat Mater, Movements I, VIII and IX
    ALESSANDRO TAMPIERI | Conductor
    ANDREAS SCHOLL | Countertenor
    Winner Baroque Vocal
  • 3:12:37 - PETERIS VASKS: Violin Concerto No. 1 (“Distant Light”), VI. Cantabile
    STANKO MADIĆ | Violin
    Label of the Year (BR Klassik)
  • 3:28:21 - PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23, III. Allegro con fuoco
    CAN SARAÇ | Piano
    Winner Discovery Award

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