Adding to a number of Grammy awards for classical recordings made on Pyramix, two performances by leading Polish musicians have collected prestigious accolades.

The first is a collection of Schumann Piano Pieces played by Piotr Anderszewski and issued on Virgin Classics which received the top prize in the instrumental category of the BBC Music Magazine Awards. The recording was made in DXD format on Pyramix by CDAccord with Andrzej Sasin producing and Ola Nagorko as recording engineer and editor for the production.

The International Classical Music Awards ceremony took place in Nantes in May 2012. Here, the prize for the best contemporary work was presented to conductor Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra for a recording of the Penderecki Viola Concerto and Cello Concerto No2. The soloists were Grigory Zhislin and Tatjana Vassiljeva and this was released on the Naxos label. The fact that the winning team was Andrzej Sasin and Ola Nagorko working with Pyramix again has made the Merging team immensely proud. All the more so because this section was hotly contested with 15 nominated recordings from all over the world, including other pieces from Krzysztof Penderecki.

The ICMA jurors are music critics representing prestigious music magazines from all over Europe. Awards are granted in 15 CD and DVD categories as well as six special categories.

‘A truly notable result for Polish music and Polish performers in two hotly contested international competitions,’ says Igor Pogorzelski, Merging Technologies Distributor for Poland. ‘And the fact that so much was won using Pyramix makes us all the happier’.