25-482: Echo Music Prize (stylised as ECHO , German pronunciation: [ˈɛço] ) was an accolade by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie [ de ] , an association of recording companies of Germany to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry . The first ECHO Awards ceremony was held in 1992, and was set up to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1991, succeeding
50-559: A final height of 108 metres (354 ft). The Elbphilharmonie was officially inaugurated with concerts of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and a light show on 11 January 2017. On 2 April 2007, the foundation stone was laid in the Kaispeicher ;A [ de ] warehouse, in the presence of then First Mayor of Hamburg Ole von Beust , Hochtief Construction AG CEO Henner Mahlstedt,
75-464: A pipe organ with 69 registers built by Klais Orgelbau . The Recital Hall is intended for the performance of recitals, chamber music and jazz concerts; it can hold an audience of 550 people. In addition, there is the Kaistudio that allows for 170 visitors and is intended to serve educational activities. The consultant for the scenography of the concert hall was Ducks Scéno . The easternmost part of
100-562: A separate event, Echo Klassik , in Cologne in 1994. Until 1995, only invited guests could attend the ceremony. It was held in Munich, and in 2001, the venue was moved from Hamburg to Berlin because of subsidies of up to 20 million euros, although a return in 2004 was considered. In 2009, the venue in Berlin was moved to Mercedes-Benz Arena . The trophy was designed by Oliver Renelt when he was
125-652: A student at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg . It is stainless steel, and is 40 centimetres (16 in) tall and weighs 2 kilograms (4.4 lb). It depicts half a disc with notes flowing into it from a globe, and the design was the winner of a competition held for that purpose. The Echo Award was heavily criticized worldwide when Farid Bang and Kollegah received the award for best hip hop/urban album in April 2018. The nominated album, Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend 3 (English: "Young, brutal, handsome 3"), contains
150-667: Is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg , Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River. The new glassy construction resembles a hoisted sail, water wave, iceberg or quartz crystal resting on top of an old brick warehouse (Kaispeicher A, built in 1963) near the historical Speicherstadt . The project is the result of a private initiative by the architect and real estate developer Alexander Gérard and his wife Jana Marko, an art historian, who commissioned
175-630: Is accessible by the public. It offers a view of Hamburg and the Elbe . From the Plaza the foyer of the concert hall can be reached. The Elbphilharmonie has three concert venues. The Great Concert Hall can accommodate 2,100 visitors whereby the performers are in the center of the hall surrounded by the audience in the vineyard style arrangement. The acoustics were designed by Yasuhisa Toyota who installed about 10,000 individually microshaped drywall plates to disperse sound waves. The Great Concert Hall contains
200-789: Is more than any other artist; the awards were in 1993, 1996–2003, 2006–2010. Selected pop categories Following its first edition as a separate event in Cologne in 1994, the Echo Klassik has been held in the Semperoper in Dresden in 1996 and 2009, in Dortmund in 2003, in Gasteig in Munich from 2004 to 2008 and in 2014. In 2010 it was held in Essen . From 2011 until 2016 the award show
225-515: Is no golden aura, but there is fantastic clarity and spatial presence." Some complaints about poor acoustics in the hall have been aired. After the grand opening on 11 January 2017, some musicians as well as conductors called the acoustics in the hall "appalling" and "terrible". Further, in a 2019 performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde , audience members shouted, "can't hear you" at tenor Jonas Kaufmann , who himself later complained, "This hall does not help...". The nearest rail station
250-693: The Deutscher Schallplattenpreis , which was awarded from 1963 to 2018. Each year's winner was determined by the previous year's sales. In April 2018, following controversy regarding that year's ceremony, the Bundesverband Musikindustrie announced the end of the award. First held with 370 people in the Flora , Cologne in 1992, the award ceremony in Frankfurt was televised and the classical awards were moved to
275-555: The UEFA Euro 2024 was held here. The building is designed as a cultural and residential complex. The original 1966 brick façade of the Kaispeicher ;A, formerly a warehouse, was retained at the base of the building. On top of this a footprint-matching superstructure rests on its own foundation exhibiting a glassy exterior and a wavy roof line. About one thousand glass windows are curved. The building has 26 floors with
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#1732783114466300-589: The German press. Several businesses joined in, with Tom Enders , CEO of Airbus , being one of the most recent high-profile commentators, saying that this would hurt "Germany's international reputation". He also asked if "antisemitism [was] becoming acceptable in Germany" again. As a consequence, the Echo Award was discontinued. The Kastelruther Spatzen have won 13 Echo Awards in the category Volksmusik which
325-485: The audience when and how and where." Philip Kennicott of The Washington Post wrote "The acoustics, designed by the renowned Japanese acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, are a marvel of clarity, precision and cool objectivity. ... Toyota doesn’t try to replicate the sumptuous warmth of 19th-century concert halls. Rather, he aims for a live-performance sound adapted to the digital age, which reinforces pleasures lost to an era of cheap headphones and limited-range MP3 files. There
350-504: The audience. Several artists later returned their Echo awards in protest, such as Marius Müller-Westernhagen , who returned all of his seven Echo awards received over the years. Other artists returning their awards were German conductors Christian Thielemann and Enoch zu Guttenberg , Russian-German pianist Igor Levit , record producer Klaus Voormann , and the Notos Quartett. However, criticism did not only come from artists and
375-541: The building complex as well. Time placed Elbphilharmonie on its "World's 100 Greatest Places of 2018" list, with Kate Rockwood writing that the acoustics "steal the show" and that the hall's panels provide "a richer, better sound", quoting Toyota who said that the more time performers spend in the hall, "the better their ensemble becomes since they can hear themselves and each other more." Forbes contributor Jens F. Laurson noted during an initial performance that "Everything musical (and otherwise) going on up and around
400-476: The building is rented by Westin as the Westin Hamburg Hotel that opened on 4 November 2016. The hotel offers 244 rooms between the 9th and 20th floors. The lobby in the 8th floor can be accessed from the Plaza. The upper floors west of the concert hall accommodate 45 luxury apartments. The complex also houses conference rooms, restaurants, bars, and a spa. A parking garage for 433 cars is part of
425-633: The costs were re-estimated to be over €500 million, which should also cover the increased cost for a strengthened roof. Construction work officially ended on 31 October 2016 at a cost of €866 million. The first public test concert at the Elbphilharmonie was held on 25 November 2016. The official opening concert took place on 11 January 2017 with a performance by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under direction of Thomas Hengelbrock . The first musical selection
450-401: The first eight floors within the brick façade. It reaches its highest point with 108 metres (354 ft) at the western side. The footprint of the building measures 120,000 square metres (1.3 million square feet). A curved escalator from the main entrance at the east side connects the ground floor with an observation deck, the Plaza, at the 8th floor, the top of the brick section. The Plaza
475-467: The hall is beautifully audible down where I sat and, as per other audience member’s accounts, most everywhere else as well", that "[t]he hall is bright, very dry, direct, unforgiving. You can hear everything and immediately, for better and worse" and that "a hall cannot be judged on one or even five hearings, after so little exposure. The orchestra, for one, will get to know their hall much better with time and start to hear not only what they hear ..., but also
500-630: The original design by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron , who developed and promoted the project (since 2003 in cooperation with the Hamburg-based real estate developer and investor Dieter Becken) for 3.5 years until the City of Hamburg decided to develop the project by itself. It is the key project of the new Hafencity development and the tallest inhabited building in Hamburg , with
525-451: The project coordinator for the City of Hamburg Hartmut Wegener (dismissed in 2008 for mismanagement of the project ), Hamburg Minister of Culture Karin von Welck and architect Pierre de Meuron . In 2007, the construction was scheduled to be finished by 2010 with an estimated cost of €241 million. In November 2008, after the original contract was amended, the costs for the project were estimated at €450 million. In August 2012,
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#1732783114466550-419: The track "0815", in which the artists refer to their muscles as being more defined than those of Auschwitz inmates. The duo was even allowed to perform this track during the ceremony, despite heavy protests weeks before the award show. Campino , singer of German punk band Die Toten Hosen , was the first one to criticize the committee's decision during the ceremony. His remarks received a standing ovation from
575-509: Was "Pan" from Benjamin Britten's Six Metamorphoses after Ovid . The project was criticized because of its cost and schedule overruns; construction was originally estimated to cost about €200 million, while the final cost was €870 million. However, upon completion, Der Spiegel in a comparative analysis suggested that the overrun was relatively "modest" compared to some other international mega-projects. The group stage draw for
600-818: Was given the ECHO Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Awards are decided by a twelve-member jury based on critical and commercial appeal. Deutsche Phono-Akademie Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 229249100 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:38:34 GMT Elbphilharmonie The Elbphilharmonie ( German pronunciation: [ˈɛlpfɪlhaʁmoˌniː] ; "Elbe Philharmonic Hall"), popularly nicknamed Elphi ,
625-634: Was held in Berlin 's Konzerthaus - only shortly intermitted in 2014. In 2017, the Echo Klassik took place in Hamburg 's newly opened Elbphilharmonie . After 2010, the Echo Jazz awards were given in thirty categories, including ensemble of the year, male and female singer of the year, record label, and lifetime achievement. In 2012 the criteria for entry included album release date and "two outstanding reviews from music journalists." Conductor Claus Ogermann
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