Qobuzissime

What is a Qobuzissime? It’s an award presented by Qobuz for a first or second album.
Pop or Reggae, Metal or Classical, Jazz or Blues, no genre is excluded. More often than not the award is presented to a newly discovered artist.
Sometimes it might be a particularly quirky or a crossover album from a discography.
The important aspects are uniqueness, sincerity and quality. We look for these things in the recording, the project and the sound identity.
Albums
Lost Paradises
Jodyline Gallavardin
Classical - Released June 10, 2022 | Scala Music
Sibelius: Complete Symphonies
Klaus Mäkelä
Classical - Released March 25, 2022 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Nightscapes
Magdalena Hoffmann
Classical - Released February 11, 2022 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Schumann - Brahms - Dvořák
Geister Duo
Classical - Released January 14, 2022 | Mirare
The Four Quarters
Solem Quartet
Chamber Music - Released September 17, 2021 | Orchid Classics
Tancade
Gaspar Claus
Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | InFiné
Ich schlief, da träumte mir
Anne Marie Dragosits
Classical - Released August 27, 2021 | L'Encelade
Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part
Caroline Shaw
Classical - Released June 25, 2021 | Nonesuch
El Nour
Fatma Said
Classical - Released October 16, 2020 | Warner Classics
Vienne 1905-1910 - Schoenberg, Webern & Berg: String Quartets
Richter Ensemble
Chamber Music - Released September 25, 2020 | Passacaille
Glassforms
Bruce Brubaker
Classical - Released June 5, 2020 | InFiné
Chopin - Brahms - Schumann
Eric Lu
Classical - Released February 28, 2020 | Warner Classics
All Shall Not Die - Haydn String Quartets
Quatuor Hanson
Classical - Released October 11, 2019 | Aparté
Six quartets: six works that are key to understanding what Joseph Haydn brought to western music. This effort by the Quatuor Hanson is particularly successful because they are past masters in constructing and expressing the soul of this subtle art. And what's more, they bring it off with a fascinating level of instrumental skill. Listening to this piece, we have to bow down once again before the genius of a composer who, along with Boccherini, invented a new genre and immediately studded it with masterpieces of staggering quality. Judiciously picked out from among Haydn's vast corpus, these six quartets are touching both in their expressiveness and in the perfection of their writing. Not a single note out of place, a perfect balance of four voices and inspired right from the first moment up to the incomplete closing Opus 77, which was a contemporary of Beethoven's first Quartets, Op. 18 – works that betray the lessons their writer learned from his master. More than two hundred years after his death, Haydn has only just found recognition as one of the greats, although he had been accorded that status during his life. But his works for keyboards, the symphonies, the oratorios, and to a lesser extent, the operas, speak in his favour. More than a forerunner, Haydn is a founder, a genius whose influence was felt by those who came after him, foremost amongst whom Beethoven and Schubert. This splendid album puts him (back) in his rightful place. © François Hudry/Qobuz
Strauss : Four Last Songs - Wagner : Arias from Tannhäuser
Lise Davidsen
Lieder (German) - Released May 31, 2019 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Duruflé : Complete Choral Works
Houston Chamber Choir
Classical - Released April 5, 2019 | Signum Records
Miroirs
Elsa Dreisig
Opera Extracts - Released October 5, 2018 | Warner Classics
Bernstein : A Quiet Place
Kent Nagano
Full Operas - Released June 1, 2018 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Dans ma main
Jean-Michel Blais
Classical - Released May 11, 2018 | Arts & Crafts Productions Inc.
Nicola Porpora : Opera Arias
Max Emanuel Cencic
Opera Extracts - Released March 2, 2018 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Mendelssohn
Quatuor Arod
Classical - Released September 22, 2017 | Erato - Warner Classics
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" - Sergei Prokofiev: October (excerpts) Kirill Kondrashin Gramophone Editor's Choice
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Bohuslav Martinů: String Quartets Nos. 2, 4 & 5 Kocian Quartet Gramophone Editor's Choice
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: The Piano Trios Guarneri Trio Prague Gramophone Editor's Choice
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Janky Star Grace Ives Pitchfork: Best New Music
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Nothing To Declare 700 Bliss Pitchfork: Best New Music