Neuigkeit Apr 5, 2023 | Wencke Wallbaum News Two audite productions on new longlist of German Record Critics' award (PdSK)
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Neuigkeit Apr 25, 2023 | Wencke Wallbaum News ICMA Award Ceremony & Gala Concert
Statement of the jury:
"There are recordings that tell stories. And these stories resound anew in every new epoch. On the night of August 20-21, 1968, Soviet tanks rolled across the streets of Prague, ending the Prague Spring. Only a few days later, the Czech Rafael Kubelík, conducted a concert with the New Philharmonia Orchestra in Lucerne. Haydn's Symphony No. 99 is sparkling with vitality and perfection, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 is marked by a deep, tragic sense of the inevitability of fate. John Ogdon superbly contributes Schönberg's Piano Concerto. This historic recording is released while Russian tanks are rolling again, and one hears these sounds of all-embracing, defiant and comforting persuasiveness with different ears..."
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!
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Neuigkeit May 15, 2023 | Wencke Wallbaum News & Rezension German Record Critics’ Award for world premiere recording “Lanzelot”
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.
Neuigkeit Jul 6, 2023 | Kristina Damiani News Two audite productions on new longlist of German Record Critics' award (PdSK)
Neuigkeit Jan 1, 1973 | Wencke Wallbaum News Label Foundation
As the brother of the former orchestra director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Erich Mauermann, the original label founder Friedrich Mauermann made a name for himself primarily through live recordings of the Mahler symphonies under the then chief conductor Rafael Kubelík.
Neuigkeit Jan 1, 1982 | Wencke Wallbaum News Introduction of CD
The compact disc (CD) is a digitaloptical discdata storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as Digital Audio Compact Disc.
Neuigkeit Jan 1, 1985 | Wencke Wallbaum News CD Primary Release Medium
The compact disc (CD) replaces music cassettes (MC) and long-playing records (LP) as the primary release medium.
Neuigkeit Jan 1, 1991 | Wencke Wallbaum News Foundation of "Fermate" Label
Ludger Böckenhoff founds his label "Fermate" in Detmold.
Neuigkeit Jan 1, 1995 | Wencke Wallbaum News Label Policy "Premiere Recordings"
With the release of Eduard and Richard Franck's and Carl Reinecke's cello sonatas, label boss Böckenhoff presents a premiere recording that is to have a strong influence on future label policy. Until 2014, 14 more productions will follow to rediscover the forgotten Mendelssohn Bartholdy pupils Eduard and Richard Franck - all of them premiere recordings, released with the "Premiere Recordings" seal of quality.
Neuigkeit Jan 1, 1997 | Wencke Wallbaum News Cooperation BR
Start of the cooperation with the Bavarian Radio Archive (BR), which is to last until 2007. At the heart of this cooperation are the releases of the Mahler symphonies performed under Kubelik in the 1970s. The first of these will be Symphony No. 5, which will be released simultaneously on CD and LP, but a large number of other radio recordings with Kubelik will also be published in the coming years.