New releases
Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven 5CDBACH reconstructed
Johann Sebastian Bach | Christoph Harer CDJohann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonatas for Organ, BWV 525-530
Johann Sebastian Bach CDFauré authentique
Gabriel Fauré CDSparks of Spirit
Franz Schubert | Johann Sebastian Bach | Max Reger CDTreasures
Eugène Ysaÿe | Péter Eötvös | Zoltán Kodály CDGregor Joseph Werner: Vol. III: Masses and Motets
Gregor Joseph Werner CDNews
Apr 15, 2024 | Wencke Wallbaum | News ICMA Award Ceremony & Gala Concert
On 12 April, this year's ICMAs were awarded in the Palau de la Musica, Valencia (Spain), and numerous prize winners were presented in an impressively diverse gala concert with the Orquesta de València under the baton of Alexander Liebreich.
Apr 5, 2024 | Wencke Wallbaum | News Two audite productions on new long list of German Record Critics' award (PdSK)
Feb 15, 2024 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Rezension | Release PdSK for GJ Werner album
The third part of our Gregor Joseph Werner series with masses and motets won the German Record Critics' Award in the preselection of 292 new CD releases and received the Quarterly Award in the category "Early Music".
Jan 18, 2024 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Rezension ICMA Winner 2024
In 2024, audite once again wins the International Classical Music Award (ICMA). The eleventh(!) ICMA prize is awarded to us this year in the category "Historical Recordings" for the CD box Herbert von Karajan - The Early Lucerne Years, released for the label and co-operation anniversary with Lucerne Festival. We are delighted to receive this special award and congratulate everyone involved in this production!
Jan 8, 2024 | Wencke Wallbaum | News Three audite productions on new longlist of German Record Critics' award (PdSK)
154 jurors from 32 specialist juries have chosen a total of 292 titles (CDs, DVDs and audiobooks) from the new releases of the last quarter and nominated them for the Quarterly Critics' Choice ("Bestenliste") I/2024 of the German Record Critics' Award (PdSK), which will be published on 15 February.
Dec 11, 2023 | Wencke Wallbaum | News 2 audite productions among the finalists of ICMA 2024
Two of our nine nominated productions have made it to the finals of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) 2024. Now we are keeping our fingers crossed for the recordings Paul Dessau: Lanzelot (category "Premiere Recordings") and Herbert von Karajan - The Early Lucerne Years (category "Historical Recordings") for the announcement of the winners on 18 January 2024!!!
Nov 16, 2023 | Wencke Wallbaum | News 9(!) Nominations for ICMA 2024
9 audite productions have been nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2024. This means that 75% of this year's catalogue is represented in a total of 7 categories, once again demonstrating the quality and breadth of our recordings. Now it's time to keep your fingers crossed:
Nov 15, 2023 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Rezension German Record Critics’ Award for „Faust Symphony“
Our August release Franz Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S. 108 - Mephisto Waltz No. 3, S. 216 with the Staatskapelle Weimar under the baton of Kirill Karabits prevailed in the pre-selection of 238 new CD releases and received the PdSK Quarterly Prize in the category "Orchestral Music".
We are very happy about this appreciation!
Nov 7, 2023 | Wencke Wallbaum | News Label portrait on WDR 3 "TonArt"
Mona Sachße visited us in the studio for our audite anniversary and compiled a label portrait for WDR 3 "TonArt". Here you can listen to the full interview!
Nov 6, 2023 | Wencke Wallbaum | News Interview on the label anniversary
On the occasion of audite's 50th anniversary, Ludger Böckenhoff answered NDR Kultur's questions about the label's positioning in an increasingly challenging music market. You can find the full interview here!
Current Reviews
Gramophone | 7/1/24
Some 12 years have passed since my previous review of Bach’s Six Trio Sonatas for organ. On that occasion (1/12) I praised Robert Quinney’s ability to squeeze a wide variety of colours from the modest 22-stop 1965 Frobenius in The Queen’s College, Oxford. In this new recording for audite, Martin Neu has at his disposal the slightly larger two-manual
Early Music Review | 6/20/24
While Pohle’s instrumental music is gaining popularity (partly through my own efforts to publish his surviving output, as well as his complete church music, in collaboration with Gottfried Gille and Anna-Juliane Peetz-Ullman), his other output is relatively unknown. The present CD presents a set of 12 love songs for altos with a pair of violins and
Crescendo Magazine | 6/11/24 Violoncelle et piano de Gabriel Fauré : une intégrale plus que complète
Cet album est un bel hommage à Fauré ; il rappelle la place qu’occupe Marc Coppey sur la scène internationale du violoncelle et permet d’écouter la superbe sonorité de son Goffriller. Quant à la présence du piano Érard, que joue François Dumont avec souplesse, elle fait connaître un instrument de qualité, judicieusement sorti du musée.
Concert Dates
29.06.2024 | 19:00 UHR
Höchstädt an der Donau
Mandelring Quartett
Franz Schubert, Streichquartett g-Moll D 173
Claude Debussy, Streichquartett g-Moll op. 10
Antonin Dvorak, Streichquartett F-Dur op. 96…
Schloss Höchstädt
Höchstädt an der Donau
30.06.2024 | 19:30 UHR
Fürth
Mandelring Quartett
Ludwig van Beethoven, Streichquartett B-Dur op. 18 Nr. 6
Béla Bartók, Streichquartett Nr. 6
Ludwig van Beethoven, Streichquartett F-Dur op. 135
Stadttheater, großes Haus
Fürth
14.07.2024 | 11:00 UHR
Michael Smallwood, Tenor / "Schumann & Schlager"
Thomas Hoppe
“Schumann & Schlager”
Robert Schumann / Liederkreis op. 39 (Eichendorff Gedichte)
Irish Songs und Schlager von Beethoven, Chopin, Hildegard…
Schloss Leitheim
Leitheim