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​A total of 11 audite productions was nominated for the International Music Awards 2019. Among them new releases with Kirill Karabits and the Staatskapelle Weimar, Marc Coppey/Peter Laul, Niek de Groot/Elina Vähälä, Ulrike Hofbauer/Thilo Hirsch and  Christoph Schickedanz. In the field of historical releases productions from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL series (Furtwängler, Milstein/Markevitch/Ansermet) and from the RIAS archive (Ferenc Fricsy, Jorge Bolet Vol. I+II) were nominated.
We are very happy about these nominations!

​The French music magazine ResMusica was founded in 1999 by Christophe Le Gall and is an information website for classical music and dance. The articles published there are written by a team of 50 competent authors from all over Europe and North America.

​A​lso in 2019 audite is honoured with an International Classical Music Award (ICMA). The winner in the category choral is Prokofiev's Revolution Cantata with Kirill Karabits, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the Ernst Senff Chor (rehearsal: Steffen Schubert).

Statement of the jury: "Kirill Karabits frees Prokofiev's October Revolution Cantata from any possible revolutionary pathos, enhancing the satirical and destructive character of the music, which Prokofiev didn't dare to publish. The large ensemble united for this performance delivers a taut and focused sound, superbly caught by the microphones."

After numerous enthusiastic reviews and awards from the international press, the production receives with the ICMA now one of the most important awards of the international music scene. We are very happy about this recognition!

The Award Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place at the KKL in Lucerne, Switzerland, on 10 May 2019, with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster.

The members of the ICMA jury are without exception professional music critics of important magazines, online services and radio stations: Andante (Turkey), Crescendo (Belgium), das Orchester (Germany), Gramofon (Hungary), HRT Croatian Radiotelevision (Croatia), IMZ (Austria), Kultura (Russia) MDR Kultur (Germany), Musica (Italy), Musical Life (Russland), Musik & Theater (Switzerland), Opera (UK), Orpheus Radio (Russia), Pizzicato (Luxembourg), Polskie Radio Chopin (Poland), Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg), Resmusica.com (France), Rondo Classic (Finland), and Scherzo (Spain).

​​On May 10^th, this year's International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) were awarded in Lucerne. The audite production Sergei Prokofiev: Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution won in the category Choral. The winners were introduced and honoured with a festive award ceremony and a top-class gala concert with the Lucerne Symphony under Lawrence Foster.

The jury consists exclusively of professional critics for classical music from international media. This guarantees the high level and the independency of the ICMA. Both makes the ICMA the most important international music award, a similar concept on international level cannot be found elsewhere. Thus we feel particularly honoured to receive an ICMA!

In the Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution Prokofiev played out his genuine enthusiasm for mass scorings. The cantata oscillates between revolutionary vehemence and lyrical melodies, between Russian folklore and riotous military tumult. An exceptional historical document of the highest compositional level - realised with the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Ernst Senff Chor Berlin and members of the Erfurt Air Force Band under the baton of Kirill Karabits in the year of the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution.

Statement of the Jury:
"Kirill Karabits frees Prokofiev's October RevolutionCantata from any possible revolutionary pathos, enhancing the satirical and destructive character of the music, which Prokofiev didn't dare to publish. The large ensemble united for this performance delivers a taut and focused sound, superbly caught by the microphones."


The 19 members of the ICMA jury from 15 countries are all professional music critics of important magazines, online services and radio stations: Andante (Turkey), Crescendo (Belgium), das orchester (Germany), Gramofon (Hungary), HRT (Croatia), IMZ (Austria), MDR-Figaro (Germany), Musica (Italy), Musical Life (Russia), Musik & Theater (Switzerland), Opera (UK), Orpheus Radio (Russia), Pizzicato (Luxembourg), Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg), Resmusica.com (France), Rondo Classic (Finland), Scherzo (Spain), Deutsche Welle (Germany), and Radio Chopin (Poland).

​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.

​The Diapason d'Or (literally "Golden Tuning Fork" in French) is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.
The Diapason d'or is considered one of the most important independent European record awards for classical music.