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WERGO's Rolf W. Stoll Honored by German Record Critics' Award Association

Jan. 31, 2013

WERGO's Rolf W. Stoll Honored by German Record Critics' Award Association

Contemporary music recording label WERGO and Schott Music are proud to announce that Rolf W. Stoll has received the Special Merit Award 2013. The award is bestowed each year by the German Record Critics’ Award Association to a performer, artist or producer for outstanding work in the field of music recording. The award committee writes: 

When the first long-playing record was released in 1962 on WERGO, which derived its name from its founder Werner Goldschmidt, it was foreseeable that this 'studio reihe neuer musik' with its commitment to providing excellent liner notes for its releases would develop into an exemplary compendium of music between classical modernism and the avant-garde. Rolf W. Stoll who assumed the label management in 2001 has maintained this pioneering spirit of the label's founder. Created in association with the new music editors of the public-service broadcasters, the Karlsruhe Center for Arts and Media Technology and the German Music Council, the label's large and wide-ranging output is released in various dufferent series. Today, the spectrum of WERGO products ranges from the brilliantly digitized reference recordings from the 1960s to more than eighty CD portraits from the current German and international composer scene as well as the Ars acustica series, a landmark series of recordings celebrating works produced in particular at the Studio of Acoustic Art at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne. New editions such as the legendary Contemporary Sound Series of the composer Earle Brown or that of the ensemble musikFabrik have been added in recent years. Thanks to Rolf W. Stoll's great vigor and pioneering spirit, WERGO has distinguished itself as a leading record label and has become a beacon of light in the music world.

Congratulations to our friend and colleague, Rolf W. Stoll!

Learn more on WERGO by visiting www.wergo.de.

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