Winner of the Excellence Award in the Best Sound category at the 29th Japan Professional Music Recording Awards 2023

The CD "Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10, 2nd Movement," performed by the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Lazarev, won the Excellence Award in the Best Sound category (Classical, Jazz, Fusion) at the 29th Japan Professional Music Recording Awards 2023, and the award ceremony was held on December 6th.

*This award recognizes recording engineers and the works submitted by them.
Award-winning Engineer
　・Mixing Engineer: Toshiyasu Shiozawa (Nippon Columbia)
　・Mastering Engineer: Hiroshi Sato (Nippon Columbia)
　Assistant Engineer: Eri Kushimoto (Nippon Columbia)

At the awards ceremony, the judges praised the recording, saying, "Because the concert was held during the COVID-2 pandemic, it was necessary to take care to leave as much space as possible around the conductor, and the strings were positioned about two meters away from the conductor, making it difficult to create sound centered around the main microphone." They also commented that the recording was "a model for modern, contemporary live recording." (From a commentary by Tamotsu Yoshida, Chairman of the Recording Engineers Association of Japan).

Award-winning CD
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