Denmark’s highest musical honour, the Leonie Sonning Music Prize worth 133,000 Euros, has stayed close to home. The 2025 winner, announced today, is the Danish String Quartet.
They say: ‘We are thankful and humbled. Denmark is a chamber music powerhouse.’
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