Further plaudits for the Ligeti-Barber album of Keller Quartet
Critics of The New York Times voted it among the 25 best classical music recordings of 2013, while Belgian reviewers awarded the disc produced at ECM Records the Caecilia Prix.
András Keller, head of the Liszt Academy's chamber music workshop and resident orchestra, Concerto Budapest, is also associated with the world-famous string quartet which, in spring 2013, released the album featuring György Ligeti's first and second string quartets, as well as Samuel Barber's Adagio. The Strad magazine reverted to superlatives to describe the recording, within a few months the record had won the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, and critics of The New York Times voted it among the 25 best classical music recordings of 2013. The latest honour is the prestigious Caecilia Prix, which has been awarded by professional Belgian music critics since 1975. András Keller's string quartet collected the music prize, one of the earliest in Europe, in Brussels on 14 March 2014.