​​For the first time, audite is releasing a historical recording with material from the archive of the Hessischer Rundfunk (HR). The live recording from 1960 of Stravinsky's rarely performed melodrama Persephoné with Fritz Wunderlich is not to remain the only cooperation project with the HR.

​​audite is launching a 5-part series of Grieg's complete symphonic works, for which the Norwegian compatriot Eivind Aadland as well as the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne could be won.

​​The 9 CD box set with first releases from the RIAS archive presents the historically first attempt at a complete recording of the Bach cantatas. Karl Ristenpart built up the choral and orchestral work of RIAS Berlin from 1946 and directed the RIAS Chamber Choir and the RIAS Chamber Orchestra. With these ensembles and upcoming young singers such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Helmut Krebs and Agnes Giebel, Karl Ristenpart and Elsa Schiller, then head of the RIAS music department, planned a complete recording of all Bach cantatas from 1947. However, the project could not be fully realised. The 29 cantatas still in the RIAS archive today document a Bach ideal that is forward-looking even from today's perspective. Through the interpretation, which frees itself from all monumentality, the later historical performance practice was aesthetically prepared.

​​audite releases a milestone in the history of interpretation with the 4 CD box set The RIAS Second Viennese School Project. In close cooperation with Deutschlandradio Kultur (DLR), pieces of the 'New Viennese School' were recovered from the archive, which were recorded between 1949 and 1965 by renowned artists, most of whom were students of Berg, Schönberg or Webern or at least were in direct contact with the composers. Thanks to this authenticity and the diverse approaches to interpretation, the anthology offers comprehensive first-hand insights into the Second Viennese School.

​​Among the new releases, audite ventures into unfamiliar territory for the first time with the premiere recording of some orchestral compositions by the contemporary composer Moritz Eggert, bringing a pop musician on board in the shape of the singer of the group 2raum-Wohnung Inga Humpe.

​​In summer, audite celebrates its 40th anniversary with around 90 invited guests from the press, radio and music industry at Bertelsmann's representative office in Berlin.

​​Excellent for comparison with the Beethoven Quartets of the Quartetto di Cremona, released only a short time earlier, is a 7 CD box set of historical recordings by the Amadeus Quartet, which recorded almost all of these quartets on the RIAS in the years 1950-1967.

​audite starts a fruitful cooperation with LUCERNE FESTIVAL and in the next 10 years alone almost 20 productions with archive recordings from Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) will be released under the series title "Historic Performances".

​​In September, a 13-CD box set including bonus material is released with the early Berlin recordings of Sergiu Celibidache, who shaped the musical life of the war-torn metropolis like no other.

​​With the six-CD series Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works, audite is launching another complete recording with the WDR Symphony Orchestra alongside the Grieg series. This time with Schumann expert Heinz Holliger as conductor.