Sep 27, 2016 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Artists | Release Heinz Holliger awarded with Zwickau Schumann Prize

audite has recently completed the six-part series of the complete symphonic works of Schumann with the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Heinz Holliger. Now the 77-year-old Swiss conductor, composer and oboist was honored for his decades of confrontation with the Schumann works with the 10.000, - Euro doped Zwickau Schumann Prize.
Holliger is the first wind player, this price is awarded. Among the previous winners were celebrities like Daniel Barenboim, Elliot Gardiner, András Schiff and Mitsuko Shirai. The award ceremony will take place on Friday, January 20, 2017 at 19.30 at the Robert-Schumann-Haus Zwickau.

Sep 27, 2016 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Rezension | Award | Release | Artists Another SUPERSONIC for Quartetto di Cremona

​After the second, third and fifth part of the series Beethoven: Complete String Quartets with the Quartetto di Cremona now also the sixth part, published in July, has been awarded with a SUPERSONIC by the prestigious music magazine Pizzicato. We are very happy about this appreciation!

Sep 26, 2016 | Wencke Wallbaum | News Schumann series in focus of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

​The fourth and fifth part of the series Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works with the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the direction of Heinz Holliger were recently reviewed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and put to the test. The audite productions did not have to shy a direct comparison with current Harmonia Mundi publications in any way, as Jan Brachmann says: "Here comes the human side to light, from which art gains its own urgency".
Here you can read the full article!

Sep 23, 2016 | Agnes Böckenhoff | Release Video: Allusions and beyond / PianoDuo Takahashi|Lehmann

The video of the latest CD release with the PianoDuo Takahashi|Lehmann gives impressions from the recording session and interviews with the two musicians: The third audite recording of the duo presents transcriptions of pre-existing works as well as new compositions permeated with musical quotes and allusions. Drawing on musical history, existing works are approached in diverse ways, from using almost original material through to dissolving the classical concept of time and epochs.

Sep 1, 2016 | Sabine Wiedemann | Release Video: Quartetto di Cremona / Andrea Lucchesini & Saint-Saëns

​The next audite release with the Quartetto di Cremona presents the ensemble parallel to their top-class Beethoven edition with new repertoire: Saint-Saëns Piano Quintet with Andrea Lucchesini, one of the leading contemporary Italian pianists, in the rare version with double bass in the third movement, and his String Quartet No. 1.

Watch and hear impressions of the recording session for the new CD in the video. The production will be released in September 2016.

Aug 29, 2016 | Wencke Wallbaum | News Selected audite tracks available as free download

In cooperation with audite and highresaudio.com the trade magazine Stereoplay provides until 5 September 2016 eleven selected tracks of current and legendary high resolution recordings as a free download. For background and which tracks are included in the free sampler read the full article in the current issue of Stereoplay.

Aug 18, 2016 | Wencke Wallbaum | Rezension | Artists | Release | Award SUPERSONIC for Muri production "Missa in labore requies"

The recordings with Johannes Strobl, the Cappella Murensis and Les Cornets Noirs from the Abbey Church of Muri seem a guarantee of success. Now the recent production of this series Muffat: Missa in labore requies was awarded by pizzicato with a Supersonic. We are very pleased about this award!

Jul 19, 2016 | Sabine Wiedemann | News Fono Forum: Recommendation of the Month

​Vol. 6 of the Schumann Edition with Heinz Holliger and the WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne is Recommendation of the Month in the August issue of Fono Forum!

Jul 11, 2016 | Sabine Wiedemann | News Gramophone: Muffat "Video of the Day"

​The audite video for the Muffat Mass is today Video of the Day on the Gramophone homepage!

Jun 30, 2016 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Release Three audite productions on new longlist of German Record Critics' award (PdSK)

​149 jurors from 32 specialist juries have chosen 275 productions (CDs, DVDs and audio books) from new releases of the last quarter and nominated them for the Quarterly Critics' Choice ("Bestenliste") 3/2016 of the German Record Critics' Award (PdSK), which will be issued on August 11th.

Among these are also three audite productions:

R. Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. VI was nominated in the category orchestral music,
Sergei Prokofiev: Works for Violin & Piano was chosen in the category chamber music and in the category historical recording Paul Kletzki conducts Brahms, Schubert & Beethoven.