Five Da Vinci Recordings Nominated for the ICMA 2027
Five recordings from the Da Vinci catalogue have been nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2027, spanning Baroque instrumental and vocal music, opera and contemporary composition.
The nominated projects bring together different forms of musical enquiry: the recovery of neglected sources, the exploration of a composer’s instrumental language, the return of surviving operatic music to performance, and the continuing development of the string quartet.
Discover the nominated recordings
Vivaldi: La Costanza trionfante
CE1178 · Opera
Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti, with Ann Hallenberg, Romina Basso and the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, turn to the surviving music of La costanza trionfante degl’amori e de gl’odii. The recording offers an encounter with Vivaldi’s theatrical imagination, where vocal character, instrumental colour and the changing pressures of the drama are closely intertwined.
A Listening Air
C01196 · Contemporary
Affinity Quartet brings together music by Chance, Misson, Sculthorpe and Dean. The programme presents the string quartet as a meeting place for distinct Australian compositional voices, tracing different relationships between instrumental gesture, texture and musical form.
Ignazio Albertini: Sonatinae XII Violino Solo
C01181 · Baroque Instrumental
Vojtěch Jakl and Ensemble Rýnský explore Albertini’s twelve sonatas for violin and continuo. Their changing textures and contrasting episodes reveal a musical language in which virtuosity serves an expressive purpose, and the dialogue between violin and bass continually reshapes the course of the music.
Lodovico Ferronati: Concerti & Mottetti per Santa Maria Maggiore
C01095 · Baroque Instrumental
Ensemble Locatelli, directed by Thomas Chigioni, places Ferronati’s concertos alongside his motets. Heard together, these works illuminate the connections between instrumental invention and sacred vocal writing, restoring a neglected composer to a broader understanding of Italian Baroque musical life.
Sacred Music in Thuringia
C01098 · Baroque Vocal
I Contrappuntisti and Marcello Trinchero explore a repertory centred on Troll and Roemhildt. The recording draws attention to the variety of sacred music cultivated in Thuringia, allowing less familiar voices to emerge within a region whose musical history is too often considered through its best-known figures alone.
Together, these five nominations reflect the work of performers, researchers and recording teams committed to making unfamiliar music available for sustained listening, alongside new perspectives on established traditions.
Consult the official ICMA 2027 nomination list · Explore Awards & Critical Recognition
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