Ivo Kahánek and Bamberger Symphoniker led by Jakub Hrůša nominated for BBC Music Magazine Award

3 February 2020, 9:00
Ivo Kahánek and Bamberger Symphoniker led by Jakub Hrůša nominated for BBC Music Magazine Award

BBC Music Magazine nominated an album of piano concertos by Antonín Dvořák and Bohuslav Martinů among the best recordings of the year. The winner of the award will be decided by voting of listeners from around the world by 19 February 2020. 

The album entitled Dvořák, Martinů: Piano Concertos won the highest BBC Music Magazine Award – "Recording of the Month" in December 2019. It is now nominated for the album of the year. The absolute winner will be chosen by listeners themselves through online voting on the magazine website. You can vote until 19 February  2020.

Pianist Ivo Kahánek drew attention to himself in 2004, when he became the absolute winner of the Prague Spring competition. Since then he has performed, for example, with the Berliner Philharmoniker, he regularly collaborates with the Czech Philharmonic and appears at major Czech festivals. The nominated album was recorded by Kahánek together with the Bamberger Symphoniker, which have been led by Brno native Jakub Hrůša since 2016. It was under his baton that this recording was made.

Ivo Kahánek / Photo by Dušan Martincek

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