Today, the Czech soprano Kateřina Kněžíková won the prestigious BBC Music Magazine Awards in London for classical music. With her album Phidylé, she won in the “Vocal” category. The award is the second most important British music award in the field of classical music after the “Oscars of Classical Music”, awarded by the monthly Gramophone.
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“Phidylé’s great album highlights the breathtaking tone of her voice in songs accompanied by the orchestra,” wrote BBC Music Magazine.
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The soloist of the National Theater Kněžíková recorded the recording Phidylé under the baton of Robert Jindra and accompanied by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra of Ostrava at Supraphon. The album is composed of songs from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries by Bohuslav Martinů, Henri Duparco, Maurice Ravel or Karol Szyanowski, the National Theater stated in a press release. In addition to the concert repertoire, the 39-year-old Kněžíková also devotes herself to opera.
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The main prize of the evening – recording of the year – was won today by the Russian-German pianist Igor Levit for his album “On DSCH”, which combines the works of Dmitri Shostakovich and the Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson.
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The BBC Music Magazine Awards have been running since 2006. Winners in the main categories are decided by a public vote, and a number of special jury awards are also given. The awards for this year’s 16th edition have been announced in the Kings Place concert hall in London.
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In April 2017, the complete recording of Bohuslav Martinů’s piano trios performed by the Smetana Trio won the British BBC Music Magazine Award in the chamber music category. Smetana’s trio won this award for the second time in ten years. In 2007, the award also went to him in the chamber music category for recordings of Antonín Dvořák’s piano trios. The Pavel Haas Quartet was also awarded in the same year as Discovery of the Year.
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In 2020, the Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek won the concert music category for his album of piano concerts by Antonín Dvořák and Bohuslav Martinů. He recorded the album a year earlier with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Jakub Hrůša for Supraphon. Hrůša also participated in the recording, which was nominated in the “Concerto” category this year.
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