blog - audite artists and awards

Apr 4, 2017 | Sabine Wiedemann | News International Classical Music Award for audite

On April 1st, this year's International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) were awarded in Leipzig. The audite production Maureen Forrester won in the category historic recordings. The winners were introduced and honoured with a festive award ceremony and a top-class gala concert with the Gewandhausorchester under Francesco Angelico.

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!

Mar 23, 2017 | Release Neun Deutsche Arien & Brockes-Passion

Handel with Ina Siedlaczek and the Lautten Compagney

In two weeks we will release Handel's Nine German Arias and excerpts from his Brockes Passion. You can pre-order the CD today: both physically and digitally.

Mar 2, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Award | Rezension | Release | Artists Another SUPERSONIC for Quartetto di Cremona

After the second, third, fifth and sixth part of the series Beethoven: Complete String Quartets with the Quartetto di Cremona now also the seventh part, published in February, has been awarded with a SUPERSONIC by the prestigious music magazine Pizzicato. We are very happy about this appreciation!

Feb 9, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Rezension | Release | Artists Diapason d'Or for latest volume of the Amadeus Quartet series

After the first four parts of the series "The RIAS Amadeus Quartet recordings" have already received high ratings from renowned music magazines and an international expert jury by getting ICMA nominations and among others awards such as SUPERSONIC or DIAPASON D'OR, also the latest part of this series integrates into this successful series.
In the current February issue of the French magazine Diapason, The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings - Romanticism was awarded with a Diapason d'Or.

We are very happy about this appreciation of our production by expert music critics!

Jan 30, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Artists | Rezension | Release Debut album of Cheng² Duo once again "CD of the Week"

After it has already been chosen as "Disc of the Week" in November by the Canadian CBC Radio, Cheng² Duo's debut album, Violoncelle francais, once again has been selected as "Disc of the Week" on Classical Radio Boston. We are very pleased that the young duo's album is so popular!

Jan 19, 2017 | Sabine Wiedemann | News International Classical Music Award for audite

Also this year audite is honored with an International Classical Music Award (ICMA): The portrait Maureen Forrester wins in the category Historical Recording. After numerous enthusiastic reviews from the international press the edition now receives one of the most important awards of the international music scene. The prodution is one of the 17 winners out of 321 nominations.
The Gala Concert and Award Ceremony will be hosted on April 1st 2017 by the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig.

Jan 17, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | Artists | Release | Rezension CD of the Month: Maureen Forrester

audite's 3 CD box with historical recordings of the Canadian altist Maureen Forrester was selected in the current issue of Opernwelt as CD of the month. In the review it says: "Forrester had a real alto of unusual abundance and ability to expand, which she could manage with almost perfect technique. [...] Forrester's lively, impassioned performance and her talent to "paint" with her voice - supported by Hertha Klust's pointed accompaniment - make the miniatures [...] small jewellery"
We are very appreciated about this award!

Jan 1, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News Cooperation Staatskapelle Weimar

To mark the 100th anniversary, Prokofiev's "October Revolution Cantata" from 1937, interpreted by the Ernst Senff Choir Berlin and the Staatskapelle Weimar conducted by Kirill Karabits, is a remarkable historical document at the highest compositional level, which also marks the beginning of a longstanding cooperation with the DNT Weimar.

Jan 1, 2017 | Wencke Wallbaum | News audite|forum Label

Martin Rasch records all of Beethoven's piano sonatas on 9 CDs for audite|forum.

Dec 20, 2016 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Release Three audite productions on new longlist of German Record Critics' award (PdSK)

156 jurors from 32 specialist juries have chosen 282 productions (CDs, DVDs and audio books) from new releases of the last quarter and nominated them for the Quarterly Critics' Choice ("Bestenliste") 1/2017 of the German Record Critics' Award (PdSK), which will be issued on February 15th.

Among these are also three audite productions:

The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Mozart Recordings, Vol. 3 and Wolfgang Schneiderhan plays Mozart, Henze & Martin (LUCERNE FESTIVAL, Vol. 10) were nominated in the category historical recordings, Brahms: Complete String Quintets with the Mandelring Quartett and Roland Glassl was chosen in the category chamber music.

We are very happy about this appreciation!

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