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The second volume of the audite-series Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets with Quartetto di Cremona recently has been decorated with a SUPERSONIC by the important trade magazine Pizzicato .
We are very happy about this appreciation by competent critics!
In January, Mandelring's cellist Bernhard Schmidt will be guest in two radio programs. Both are devoted to the string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich. Over four years the Mandelring Quartett recorded a highly praised complete edition of these works for audite. On Sunday, January 19th, from 15:05 to 17:00 PM Jürgen Liebing will discuss with Bernhard Schmidt "Music as secret message - the string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich" on Deutschlandradio Kultur. On Wednesday, January 22nd, in the program "Werkgespräch" Burkhard Egdorf and Bernhard Schmidt will introduce Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3 extensively from 20.03 to 22.00 PM on SWR 2.
George Szell conducts Dvorák & Brahms was chosen as recording of the month at MusicWeb International.
In memory of Claudio Abbado, who passed away at the beginning of the year and was closely associated with LUCERNE FESTIVAL for almost five decades, a CD is being released in the "Historic Performances" series with three previously unreleased live recordings, which he himself agreed to release.
To mark Kubelík's 100th birthday, the LUCERNE FESTIVAL series will release the live recording of Bartók's only opera Bluebeard's Castle in a memorable concert performance with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Irmgard Seefried conducted by Rafael Kubelík from 1962.
After the completion of the five-part Grieg series, the Complete Symphonic Works is also released in excerpts on LP.
The year ends with another release in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL series: Furtwängler conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the last time in Lucerne just three months before his death in 1954. This unique sound document is released on CD as well as SACD and LP.
Also our Celibidache edition will be presented on German radio again: On Friday, December 27th Olaf Wilhelmer will introduce the edition extensively from 20:03 to 22:30 PM on Deutschlandradio Kultur. His guest is musicologist Prof. Wolfgang Rathert. Their conversation will introduce the new set with Berlin recordings from 1945 to 1957 in detail.
After the nomination of 14 audite productions for the ICMA three productions were now nominated for the German Record Critics' Award (PdSK). Again - like for the ICMA - the Edition Celibidache and Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works Vol. I were nominated, moreover La Cathédrale engloutie with Carsten Wiebusch.
On Saturday, December 21st the three CD box Bach: Christmas Oratorio with Karl Ristenpart will be presented on the German radio SR.