audite Musikproduktion is an independent classical music record label run by recording engineer Ludger Böckenhoff. Founded in Stuttgart in 1973, AUDITE merged with the Fermate label in 2000, relocating to Detmold in the process, where it is still based today. AUDITE (Listen!, imperative plural of the Latin verb audire = to listen) Musikproduktion is an international provider of classical music sound carriers.
History
The AUDITE label was founded by Friedrich Mauermann in Stuttgart in 1973. Brother of the former manager of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Erich Mauermann, he established his reputation primarily by releasing archive recordings of the Mahler Symphonies under the chief conductor of the time, Rafael Kubelík. In 2000, Mauermann transferred the AUDITE label to Ludger Böckenhoff, who had owned his own music production company, Fermate, since 1991. As a result of the merger, the label was renamed AUDITE Musikproduktion.
Repertoire and awards
Starting from the live recordings of the Mahler Symphonies with Rafael Kubelík and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra which originally represented AUDITE’s core repertoire, the label has gradually developed two focal points whilst maintaining its objective of making available to the public noteworthy repertoire in outstanding interpretations.
Historical archive recordings, issued in close collaboration with the respective broadcasting corporations, remain one of AUDITE's cornerstones. New releases are the other core area, including complete editions (such as Shostakovich String Quartets, Beethoven String Quartets and Piano Trios, Edvard Grieg’s and Robert Schumann's Complete Symphonic Works, Louis Vierne's Organ Symphonies or Felix Mendelssohn's Complete Chamber Music for Strings) as well as new discoveries such as the works of Mendelssohn’s pupil Eduard Franck and his son, Richard Franck.
AUDITE's current catalogue comprises more than 350 titles in CD, SACD and LP formats, available across the globe via respective distributors; in addition, AUDITE releases are available on download and streaming platforms.
AUDITE's recordings have won many awards, including the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Cannes Classical Award, the Midem Classical Award, the International Classical Music Award, the Diapason d'Or and Gramophone Editor's Choice. In 2013, AUDITE was voted Label of the Year by the jury of the International Classical Music Awards.
Artists and ensembles
Artists and ensembles/orchestras who have recorded for AUDITE include:
Balkan Chamber Orchestra
Elisso Bolkvadze
Sarah O‘ Brien
Nicolas Bringuier
Arthur Campbell
Maria Canyigueral
Cappella Murensis
Cheng² Duo
Marc Coppey
Josu De Solaun
Jean-Baptiste Dupont
Niek de Groot
Romain Descharmes
Christiane Edinger
Moritz Eggert
Detlev Eisinger
Laura Ruiz Ferreres
Hansjörg Fink
Roland Glassl
Gerhard Gnann
Liana Gourdjia
Hideyo Harada
Anne-Cathérine Heinzmann
Thomas Hoppe
Judith Ingolfsson
Jacques Thibaud String Trio
Hisako Kawamura
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Sergej Koudriakov
la festa musicale
Les Cornets Noirs
Elmar Lehnen
Alexander Lonquich
Andrea Lucchesini
Anna Malikova
Ulrich Roman Murtfeld
Martin Neu
Jimin Oh-Havenith
Guglielmo Pellarin
Piano Duo Takahashi|Lehmann
Camilla Tilling
Franziska Pietsch
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sophie Rétaux
Hans-Eberhard Roß
Andreas Rothkopf
Salaputia Brass
Martin Sander
Christoph Schickedanz
Herbert Schuch
Oren Shevlin
Ina Siedlaczek
Staatskapelle Weimar
Vladimir Stoupel
Johannes Strobl
Thüringer Bach Collegium
Trio Lirico
Dénes Várjon
Tilmann Wick
Carsten Wiebusch
Edinger Quartett
Mandelring Quartett
Quartetto di Cremona
Schweizer Klaviertrio / Swiss Piano Trio
Trio Testore
Elina Vähälä
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Zagreb Soloists
Artists of archive recordings
Conductors, singers, instrumentalists and ensembles re-released as part of AUDITE’s archive recordings include: