The 3 double SACDs present César Franck’s complete organ works for the first time. This complete edition naturally includes the 12 major well-known works of this composer. In addition to these, it contains at least 40 minutes of first recordings alongside many smaller treasures of the repertoire. The works for harmonium are available here in their entirety in their versions for organ, as are two organ works discovered during the 1970s and 1980s, also new to the recording medium.

Besides these aspects of completeness, the present complete production is marked by the special sound of the Goll Organ. Its warm, soft sound, resulting from widely constructed pipes, creates an unobtrusive power and fullness; the essence of the French Cavaillé Organs has been preserved and further developed in this instrument.

Interested music lovers can call up the exact registrations of all the pieces from www.audite.de simultaneously with this issue, as well as short videos about the construction of the organ.

audite will release the first double SACD of the three part series in November:

SACD 1
Pièce en mi bémol*
Pièce pour Grand Orgue
Andantino (G minor)
Fantaisie (C major, version I)*
Cinq Pièces pour Harmonium transcrites pour Grand Orgue par Louis Vierne*
Offertoire (A major)**
Fantaisie (C major, version II)
Quasi Marcia op. 22 **

SACD 2
SIX PIÈCES POUR GRAND ORGUE
No. 1 Fantaisie op. 16
No. 2 Grande Pièce Symphonique op. 17
No. 3 Prélude, Fugue et Variation op. 18
No. 4 Pastorale op. 19
No. 5 Prière op. 20
No. 6 Final op. 21

*: Premiere Recording **: Premiere Recording for Organ

The concert date of the live-recording printed in the booklet and on the inlaycard is November 9th 1962. The correct date should be January 30th 1970. There is a recording of the concert of November 9th, too, but the basis for our production is the stereo-recording of January 30th 1970. We will correct this mistake in the next edition of this production.

Our production of the Schubert Mass No. 6 was included in the Quarterly Critics Choice (Bestenliste) of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. (The lists recommend new releases which merit special attention either for the quality of interpretation or creativity, or for their value to the repertoire. These lists provide a candid picture of new releases which, in the jury's opinion, are of outstanding importance when judged on purely artistic grounds.)

The historic live recording of F. Schubert: Mass No. 6 was made on 22 March 1968 in the Herkules-Saal of the Munich residence. It is part of our Rafael Kubelik series; together with the Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of the Bavarian Radio and the soloists Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Franz Crass (bass), Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Grace Hoffmann (alto) and Albert Gaßner (tenor) Kubelik creates an outstanding interpretation.

C. Franck: Complete Organ Works Vol. I, the first double-SACD of our Complete Edition of Organ Works by César Franck won a Supersonic!

The Supersonic is awarded by the music magazine “Pizzicato”. We are happy about this recognition for the first part of the complete edition.

You can find the whole review here.

C. Franck: Complete Organ Works Vol. II and C. Franck: Complete Organ Works Vol. III are already available, too.

Ludger Böckenhoff answered questions via mail for platte11.de concerning the audite-Series “Listen & Compare”. The interview was lead by Heinz Gelking, author for the magazine image hifi and founder of the music website platte11.de. Read the whole interview here.

In 2006 audite makes its appearance at the MIDEM in Cannes again.

The MIDEM is the hub of the international music-scene. Artists and Ensembles take part as well as producers, distributors and managers.
You can find audite at the MIDEM in the Riviera Hall at the stand R 30.20 from January 22nd to 26th. For more information about the MIDEM refer to www.midem.com.

We are happy to present you our new complete catalogue 2006. Here you find all recent audite-productions including all new releases until May 2006. For the first time there is also a SACD-sampler in the catalogue; here you find full tracks from productions with works from S. Rachmaninov, C. Franck, J. Brahms, L. Massonneau, C. Saint-Saëns, D. Shostakovich and K. Turner. Any order placed at audite will receive a free copy of the 76 page catalogue (without sampler)! Or order the catalogue with SACD-sampler here.

With MK Net we extend our distribution network in East Europe. We are happy to welcome MK Net in the audite-family!

With Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 audite continues the historic Kubelik-series also in 180g LP-format. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Rafael Kubelik appear with Edith Mathis (Soprano) and Brigitte Fassbaender (Alto). The live recording was made in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz in Munich on December 8th 1982.

The further prize-winning recordings from our Kubelik series with Mahler Symphonies are No. 1, No. 3, No. 5, No. 6 and No. 7.

On August 11th 1996 the famous conductor Rafael Kubelik died.

audite has a strong connection to this extraordinary conductor: About 20 live recordings of his concerts are part of our catalogue, both in SACD-/ CD-format as well as in LP-format. For the occasion of the anniversary we offer on all orders of private customers a reduction of 5 Euros or more on every product from our Kubelik-series until the end of August.

List of the Kubelik-series