At the 54th Record Academy Awards in Tokyo, Paavo Järvi was announced as the recipient of two prestigious prizes: The Complete Nielsen Symphonies recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony was voted ‘Gand Prix (Silver Prize): Best Symphony Recording’ and his second CD release as Chief Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra featuring Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegel & Der Rosenkavalier Suite was voted ‘Best Orchestral Recording’. Both releases appear on the RCA Red Seal label of Sony Music.
The Record Academy Award is organized by Record Geijutsu Magazine (literally, “The Art of Record” in Japanese), published by the Ongaku-No-Tomo Company (literally “Friends of Music” in Japanese) and is given annually to the best classical music discs in 15 different genres/categories by the vote of the selection committee comprising Japanese classical music critics and journalists. The Award was created in 1963 and is regarded as one of the most authoritative in the world of classical music.
