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The CDs Dessiner les passions by Andreas Gilger and Le temps retrouvé by the Eliot Quartet and Dmitry Ablogin are nominated for the International Classical Music Award (ICMA).
The Eliot Quartet is nominated in the chamber music category. With "Le temps retrouvé" it offers reminiscence of the sound magician César Franck. To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Belgium's greatest composer, the multinational ensemble has combined Franck's only string quartet with his celebrated piano quintet. The friendship between the quartet and pianist Dmitry Ablogin bears musical fruit on this CD, as the five musicians weave an intense web of sound between keyboard and strings in the Piano Quintet.
In the Baroque Music category, Andreas Gilger is competing with works for harpsichord by D'Anglebert, Du Mont, Geoffroy, de Chambonnières and Couperin. In his first GENUIN solo CD, the young, first-rate harpsichordist relies on the perfect combination of a high-quality copy of a historical instrument and a room of ideal dimensions. In the Golden Hall of the Castle of Oettingen, he plays vibrant, passionate, surprising music of the 17th century, including a suite by Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy, which is now available on CD for the first time.
The finalists of the annually awarded ICMA will be announced in mid-December, the prize winners in early 2023.