The recording features a selection of songs and arias by Gustav Mahler, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Hans Pfitzner, Engelbert Humperdinck, Alban Berg and Walter Braunfels, performed by German baritone Samuel Hasselhorn and the Poznań Nightingales Boys’ and Men’s Choir.
The CD was released last year by Harmonia Mundi.
The citation for the award says: "This is a remarkable CD, not only because of Samuel Hasselhorn's outstanding singing, grippingly dramatic and movingly sensitive throughout the programme, but also because of the conductor Łukasz Borowicz and the highly evocative 'sound theatre' he gets from the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra. The symbiosis of voice and orchestra is just perfect."
The awards ceremony will be held at the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, Germany on March 19.
(mk/gs)