W​atch impressions from the recording session with Anne-Cathérine Heinzmann (flute) and Thomas Hoppe (piano) for Schulhoff - Smit - Gál - Raphael - Tansman (Works for Flute and Piano) - their second audite album.  Check out also the artists'  first album with works by French composers (Poulenc, Hindemith, Dutilleux , Muczynski, Martin; audite 92.667).

Five intensive and virtuoso works by five composers of the 20th century. In their respective aesthetics, each composer shares the ability to use forms and models of music history as inspiration for his own modern musical language. Existentially, they shared a common fate: all were persecuted by the National Socialists. Some were murdered in concentration camps and others fled to continue their lives in exile.

Leo Smit, Alexandre Tansman and Erwin Schulhoff were inspired by French music, including Claude Debussy's sense for the magic of sound and melodic elaboration and the openness towards jazz shown by the Parisian musical scene. For Günter Raphael, classical clarity and romantic differentiation were decisive ideals; in his late Intermezzi, Hans Gál looked back at his artistic origins in the circle surrounding Johannes Brahms. These five intensive, virtuoso works shed light on facets of an age to which attention is otherwise but rarely paid.

The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) are the successors of the MIDEM Classical Awards respectively the Cannes Classical Awards. The ICMA jury consists of professional music critics of important magazines, online services and radio stations: Andante (Turkey), Crescendo (Belgium), Fono Forum (Germany), Gramofon (Hungary), HRT (Croatia), IMZ (Austria), Kultura (Russia) MDR-Figaro (Germany), Musica (Italy), Musik & Theater (Switzerland), Opera (UK), Orpheus Radio (Russia), Pizzicato (Luxembourg), Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg), Resmusica.com (France), Rondo Classic (Finland), and Scherzo (Spain).

We are particularly happy about these nominations since they document the knowledgeable appreciation of our productions through the jury members!

The winners will be announced in January 2016. The Gala Concert and Award Ceremony will be hosted on April 1st 2016 by the Basque National Orchestra in San Sebastian.

The following audite productions were nominated:

Mandelring Quartett
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Complete Chamber Music for Strings
with: Quartetto di Cremona, Gunter Teuffel

Quartetto di Cremona
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets - Vol. 4

Duo Pietsch-Eisinger
E. Grieg: The Violin Sonatas

Elisso Bolkvadze
Piano works by Prokofiev and Schubert

Jacques Thibaud String Trio
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Trios Op. 3, 8 & 9

Swiss Piano Trio
Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano Trio - Vol. 2

Camilla Tilling, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Eivind Aadland
E. Grieg Complete Symphonic Works Vol. V

LUCERNE FESTIVAL Historic Performances, Vol. VIII
Annie Fischer: Schumann Piano Concerto, Op. 54
Leon Fleisher: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2

LUCERNE FESTIVAL Historic Performances, Vol. VI
Wilhelm Furtwängler: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Amadeus Quartet
The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings, Vol. IV - Modernism

Géza Anda
The Telefunken Recordings

Johanna Martzy
Violin Concerto, Violin Sonatas & Violin Pieces, Berlin 1953-1966

More information about the ICMA can be found here.

The albums already released were received with great enthusiasm by the international press. ​All recordings were made in the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte in Italy.

The Quartetto di Cremona on facebook about the completion of the edition:

"!!!!FINITO - FINISHED - FERTIG - FINI!!!
And today at 6:30pm we finished to record all the Beethoven string quartets. A travel lasted two years and 8 volumes (3 still have to be released).
A travel that would have been more difficult without the support of the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, the Marchesi Gianluca, Orsola and Federico Spinola, and our friend Rita & Gianni.
Thanks to Francesca Ricciardi Photographer for the pictures and the video that soon will document our long trip and, last but not least, thank you to Ludger Böckhenhoff, our sensitive and wonderful producer of the audite!
He made a great job and has been able to understand our playing and musical ideas giving us suggestion to improve our interpretation and make us feel very, very comfortable. WOW!"

​In addition, Elisabteh Schwarzkopf is also featured in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL series in the production of Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Wilhelm Furtwängler.

The productions in detail:

aud. 95633 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf interprets songs by Wolf, Schubert, Strauss, Purcell, Arne & Quilter

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Michael Raucheisen, piano

A document out of the ordinary: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's Lied recordings with her accompanist Michael Raucheisen, made on 6 January 1958 at the RIAS studios in Berlin, are an impressive example of the fruitful cooperation between these two artists. They performed together as early as 1942, at the beginning of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's glittering career, and more than one and a half decades later this artistic partnership drew to a close with these recordings.

Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 on LP
LUCERNE FESTIVAL Historic Performances, Vol. VI

Furtwängler's last Ninth: Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony more than one hundred times. Three months before his death in 1954, he gave his last performance in Lucerne which is now newly re-mastered. Together with the superb Philharmonia Orchestra and a stellar cast of soloists, Furtwängler accentuates the visionary character of the monumental score in his passionate interpretation.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Elisa Cavelti | Ernst Haefliger | Otto Edelmann
Philharmonia Orchestra | Luzerner Festwochenchor
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Available in three formats and as high resolution downloads (on product sites):

aud. 92.641 SACD

aud. 95.641 CD

aud. 80.461 2 LP
Extraordinary artists in extraordinary recordings on an extraordinary format: these are the criteria for audite's LP releases. Hot off the press is Furtwängler's last performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, now also available on premium 180g vinyl (DMM).

(photo: LUCERNE FESTIVAL Archives)

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​The quarterly and annual awards of the German Record Critics' Award (PdSK) are sought-after prices in the German music scene. The winners of the quarterly awards are included in the Quarterly Critics' Choice ("Bestenliste") of the German Record Critics' Award. The lists recommend 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 nominations!

​Watch impressions of the recording session with one of today's leading cellists: Marc Coppey, winner of the Leipzig Bach Competition, is featured in his new album in the dual role of artistic director and soloist of the Zagreb Soloists for the first time. The recording presents Haydn's Cello Concertos, milestones in the history of cello music, and the free-spirited A major Concerto by C. P. E. Bach. The new production will be released in January 2016.

For his first audite recording, Marc Coppey has chosen to focus on the Haydn Cello Concertos - milestones in the history ofcello music. Coppey's interpretation reveals the diverging aspects of these works: Baroque devices alongside pioneering elements looking towards the Romantic concerto; chamber-like communication alternating with soloisticvirtuosity; intimate, differentiated soundscapes beside orchestral wealth. Marc Coppey: "I feel as though I am asinger in different roles. If I had to choose one aspect over all the others, it would be the operatic one."

The concept and originality of the A major Cello Concerto by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach make it an ideal companion piece for the Haydn Concertos.

As Artistic Director of the Zagreb Soloists, Marc Coppey performs these concertos as soloist and director, continuing the long tradition of the Zagreb Soloists under Antonio Janigro.

Marc Coppey, winner of the Bach Competition Leipzig, is considered one of today's leading cellists. He was discovered at an early age by Yehudi Menuhin, who invited him to perform alongside him. In 1989, Mstislav Rostropovich asked Coppey to perform at the Evian Festival, marking the beginning of his solo career. He regularly appears alongside leading orchestras and conductors, and is also a passionate chamber musician, performing together with renowned artists. From 1995 until 2000 he was a member of the Ysaÿe Quartet. Marc Coppey is a professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and gives masterclasses across the globe. He is Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Festival Colmar and the Zagreb Soloists.

​Watch impressions of the recording session with Roland Glassl, the longstanding violist of the Mandelring Quartett: He presents his debut solo album performing suites for solo viola by Max Reger, Adolf Busch and Justus Weinreich. Weinreich's suites of 1894 are a wonderful discovery and now available as a recording for the first time. The production will be released in February 2016.

Roland Glassl has established his reputation as a soloist and chamber musician. Numerous prizes at international competitions (including first prize at Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition; first prize at Washington International Competition for Strings; winner of the first International Viola Competition Vienna) as well as sixteen years of playing in the Mandelring Quartett have taken him to many of the great international concert stages and festivals. Roland Glassl studied the violin with Prof. Ana Chumachenco at the Munich Musikhochschule and the viola at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, with Atar Arad. After his return to Germany he began his career as a chamber musician and soloist. Alongside his intensive involvement with the Mandelring Quartet he has given many concerts with the Trio Charolca and has also continued performing as a soloist. Roland Glassl teaches at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, whose staff he joined as professor of viola in 2004.

The ICMA jury consists of professional music critics of important magazines, online services and radio stations: Andante (Turkey), Crescendo (Belgium), Fono Forum (Germany), Gramofon (Hungary), HRT (Croatia), IMZ (Austria), Kultura (Russia) MDR-Figaro (Germany), Musica (Italy), Musik & Theater (Switzerland), Opera (UK), Orpheus Radio (Russia), Pizzicato (Luxembourg), Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg), Resmusica.com (France), Rondo Classic (Finland), and Scherzo (Spain).

ICMA President Remy Franck says: "Only an international jury like ours can get, at the end, such an impressive international result with productions from 15 labels and nine different countries. According to our criteria only really outstanding recordings are allowed to win a prize, and to get there, we will certainly never be misled by any chart rankings or the whatsoever popularity of artists. At ICMA, also less known musicians and smaller independent labels have a chance. It's all about musical quality and integrity!"

We are very happy about this prestigious award!

​The Award Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place on April 1, at the Kursaal in San Sebastián, hosted by the Orquesta de Euskadi (Basque National Orchestra) and San Sebastián European Capital of Culture 2016.