Vol. II of our Fischer-Dieskau edition was awarded the title “Selección” by the Spanish music magazine Ópera Actual.

The production “Edition Fischer-Dieskau (II) – H. Wolf: Goethe-Lieder | Spanisches Liederbuch“ combines recordings with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau from 1948, 1949 and 1953. Pianists are Hertha Klust, Walter Welsch and Rudolf Wille.

We are very happy about the “Selección”!

Vol. I of our Fischer-Dieskau edition was recognized by a Spanish music magazine: Scherzo awarded album the title “histórico”.

The production “Edition Fischer-Dieskau Vol. I – H. Wolf: Mörike-Lieder“ was the start of our new Fischer-Dieskau edition. You can hear sound documents with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau from 1949, 1951 and 1955. Pianists are Hertha Klust, and Rudolf Wille.

We are very happy also about this recognition!

The debut album of Hideyo Harada with "Lyric Pieces" by E. Grieg attracted international interest and won numerous awards. Then in November 2008 Hideyo Harada presented her new SACD with works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. In its April issue Gramophone awards the recording with a “Gramophone recommends”! Quote from the review: „Two great Russian piano masterpieces in a subtle and soulful recording. Hideyo Harada offers a reading that thrills.” We are very happy about this recognition!
You can find the complete review and all other reviews published so far here.

In May audite will release a Furtwängler Box: All RIAS-recordings with Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic from 1947 until his death in 1954 on 12 CDs plus Bonus-CD.

This Furtwängler Edition presents live recordings only, some of them are first releases as e. g. Fortner’s Violin Concerto with Gerhard Taschner, Hindemith’s Concerto for Orchestra or Blacher’s Konzertante Musik.
Also, the edition enables you to compare interpretations because some of the works are included as recordings from different years; for example the box begins with Beethoven’s Symphonies No. 6 and No. 5 from 1947 and ends with recordings of these works from 1954.
The Complimentary CD presents previously unreleased live recordings of Furtwängler about music interpretation.
Extensive additional material is also available for download, including historic concert reviews, additional live recordings of Furtwängler and a podcast on the subject "Historic Recordings and Remastering".

Release date in Germany is May 15th. You can look forward to a special musical and historical discovery with Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic in May!

The latest production with the Mandelring Quartett was awarded a “Star of the Month” by the German music magazine Fono Forum and labelled “Outstanding” by the British International Record Review.

The production is the last but one part of the complete edition of Shostakovitch's String Quartets interpreted by the Mandelring Quartet.
Vol. V will be presumably released in autumn 2009.

We are very happy about these distinguished awards!

Due to the release of the Furtwängler box at audite the Foundation Berliner Philharmoniker and the Wilhelm-Furtwängler Society hosted a panel discussion on June 17th in the Hermann Wolff Saal of the Philharmonie Berlin with audite's producer Ludger Böckenhoff, Dr. Helge Grünewald as the Berlin Philharrmonic's spokesman and the sound engineer of the Philharmonie Berlin Klaus-Peter Groß.

The motto of the discussion “News from Furtwängler?!” included topics such as the development and the conception of the Furtwängler box, the general handling of historic tape material and technical and esthetical aspects during the process of remastering. The technical possibilities of remastering (and according to this the artistic and historical responsibility of the sound engineer) were documented by commented listening examples.

You can find more information about the panel discussion on the Berliner Philharmoniker’s website.
For further information about remastering we recommend our podcast "Historic Recordings and Remastering" which includes many listening examples from audite’s Furtwängler box.

In October audite will release volume V of the Complete Edition of Shostakovitch String Quartets with the Mandelring Quartet.

Watch the recording session for the final volume of the complete SACD edition in sound and picture. Additionally the members of the Mandelring Quartet talk about their experience with the music of Shostakovitch.

In August 2009 audite releases piano works by Bela Bartók with Nicolas Bringuier.

Watch a preview about Bringuier, Bartók, piano technique and Bringuier's personal approach to Bartók's music:

audite was included twice in the Quarterly Critics' Choice ( “Bestenliste 3/2009”) of the German Record Critics’ Award (“Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”).

In the category ‘Historical recording’ the jury awarded exclusively releases by audite: The 13 CD box Edition Wilhelm Furtwängler with all recordings of the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler done by the RIAS in post-war Berlin as well as the Complete RIAS recordings of the violin virtuoso Michael Rabin.

The Quarterly Critics' Choice of the German Record Critics’ Award recommends new releases which merit special attention for the quality of interpretation and 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 and audiophile grounds.

We are very happy about these distinguished awards for our historical releases!

The Edition Wilhelm Furtwängler with the complete RIAS recordings of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Wilhelm Furtwängler is currently breaking records.

Since the release of the Edition Wilhelm Furtwängler in May 2009 …

• ... the album was in such high demand that it made it into the top 20 classic charts. In August the album held position 16 in the German sales charts (media control).
  
  
• … the trade press could not contain their enthusiasm! The consequence are many prestigious awards (e. g. Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Supersonic Award, Diapason d’Or, Choc de Classica etc.) and more than 50 excellent international reviews from important media around the globe (Arte, BBC Radio 3, Classica, Deutsche Welle, ClassicsToday, Diapason, Die Welt, Fono Forum, Gramophone, Kulturspiegel, Neue Zürcher Zeitung etc.).
  
  
• … the podcast “Remastering historic recordings“ which explains the general process of remastering using the Furtwängler-Edition as an example was downloaded from our homepage more than 1.500 times.
  

We are very happy about these outstanding successes and feel confirmed in our release policy.