blog - audite artists and awards

Sep 25, 2020 | Wencke Wallbaum | News Longlist Annual Awards PdSK

The recordings Edith Mathis sings [...]: Selected Lieder and Dvořák & Tchaikovsky: Serenades were nominated for this year's PdSK Annual Awards and included in the longlist!
Once a year, the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik ('German Record Critics' Awards') awards annual prizes from various musical genres for the best productions of the past year, which are selected by a jury-spanning committee. The ten annual prizes are awarded to the winners in the context of public concert appearances or literature readings (in the field of audio books) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
We are very happy that two audite productions made it onto the longlist!

Sep 9, 2020 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Rezension | Release Award for our current September release

The recently released CD Armin Jordan conducts Debussy, Roussel & Chausson from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL series HISTORIC PERFORMANCES was awarded a JOKER PATRIMOINE by the Belgian online magazine Crescendo.

We are very happy about this appreciation of our production!

Aug 24, 2020 | Sabine Wiedemann | News Pietsch: Release Concert "Fantasque" with new pianist

Due to the worsening Corona situation, unfortunately Josu De Solaun will be unable to travel from Spain to Berlin - what a pity! But the release concert will take place, now with pianist Maki Hayashida who performs with Franziska Pietsch also in other concerts.

Due to this change, program has been slightly altered; instead of Poulenc's Violin Sonata the artists will present one of C. Franck's Violin Sonatas. Here the updated program overview:

Debussy: Sonate pour violon et piano - l Allegro vivo - ll Intermède - lll Finale
Ravel: Sonate pour violon et piano - l Allegretto - ll Blues - lll Perpetuum mobile
C. Franck: Sonate pour violon et piano - l Allegretto ben Moderato - ll Allegro -
lll Recitativo-Fantasia - lV Allegretto poco mosso

Event details:

Tuesday, Aug 25th 2020, 7:30 PM:

Release Concert "Fantasque" with Franziska Pietsch, violin, and Maki Hayashida, piano
Mendelssohn-Remise, Jägerstraße 51, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Registration neccessary: martina.vonbruening@forartists.de or tel. 030/ 644 752 - 43 (admission fee 10,00 €)

Jul 1, 2020 | Sabine Wiedemann | News audite summer sale: 20% discount & free shipping

Sun, sand, surf or rather summer, sun, staycation? In any case we would like to freshen up your summer with your favourite music at a special price: In July and August, you will receive a 20% discount on all sound carriers ordered via audite.de! In addition, we will bear the shipping costs for your within the EU (incl. UK). And that's not all: In our "Sale & Free Downloads" section, you can find free downloads and sound carriers with even greater discounts.
We wish you a happy summer, much joy in browsing, and hopefully great listening pleasure!

Jul 1, 2020 | Sabine Wiedemann | News Three jubilees in July

Also in July, audite artists celebrate their anniversaries:
July 7th is Gustav Mahler's 160th birthday, on July 21st, Isaac Stern would turn 100 years, and July 28th sees the 270th anniversary of J.S. Bach's death. Enough reason to point out the audite productions of the jubilees:

Gustav Mahler, e.g. the legendary live recordings with Rafael Kubelik and the Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk,
Isaac Stern with rare live recordings from Lucerne Festival (Tchaikovsky & Bartók Violin Concertos),
J.S. Bach, e.g. Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin with Christoph Schickedanz and Transcriptions of the Brandenburg Concertos with the PianoDuo Takahashi|Lehmann.

Of course, all productions available during the audite summer sale with 20% discount!

Jun 1, 2020 | Sabine Wiedemann | News Two jubilees in June

In June, two audite-composers celebrate anniversaries:

June 2nd is the 270th anniversary of Valentin Rathgeber's death, June 8th is Robert Schumann's 210th birthday. Although these are not really round commemoration days, we would like to point out the audite productions of the jubilees on this occasion:

Johann Valentin Rathgeber: "Mass from Muri"
Robert Schumann: Complete Symphonics Works with the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Heinz Holliger and many additional productions

Apr 2, 2020 | Ludger Böckenhoff | News Together through the crisis!

Where the prices of others are currently rising, we offer a 27% discount on all sound carriers and downloads! Order your desired music on audite.de now and benefit from the extensive rebate. In addition, in the case of physical sound carriers, we will give away a surprise CD for each order process and bear the shipping costs for you within the EU (incl. UK).

Moreover, we pay € 2,- per sold physical sound carrier of this discount campaign into our future fund, which will co-finance new productions and thus benefit our artists. With every order you place you become a part of new audite productions and contribute to our ability to provide you with exciting and high-quality classical productions also in the future.
If you would like to become a larger part of audite, you can of course increase our future fund beyond the € 2,- as you wish, btw., also related to individual artists. In return, we offer you opportunities such as insights into the production process, attendance of recording sessions, direct artist contact, exclusive information and much more. Contact us (info@audite.de) and we will compose your personal thank you package.

Let's turn the crisis into a chance, move closer together in spite of everything and overcome it hand in hand!

The campaign has ended on May 15th, 2020.

Apr 1, 2020 | Wencke Wallbaum | News audite production on new longlist of German Record Critics' award (PdSK)

152 jurors from 32 specialist juries have chosen 234 productions (CDs, DVDs and audio books) from new releases of the last quarter and nominated them for the Quarterly Critics' Choice ("Bestenliste") 2/2020 of the German Record Critics' Award (PdSK), which will be issued on May 15th.

Among these is also an audite production: Paul Tortelier: RIAS Recordings was nominated in the category „Historical Recordings".

We are very happy about this appreciation!

Mar 11, 2020 | Wencke Wallbaum | News | Rezension Numerous awards for new CD with the Staatskapelle Weimar & Kirill Karabits

audite's January release with the Staatskapelle Weimar under the baton of Kirill Karabits Franz Liszt: Künstlerfestzug - Tasso - Dante Symphony continues Sardanapalo's great series of successes and has received four important awards in the past two weeks: the renowned journals Audio and Fono Forum awarded the production as KLANG TIPP and STERN DES MONATS. In addition, the CD received a DIAPASON D'OR from the French magazine Diapason and a LA CLEF from ResMusica.