Founded in Stuttgart in 1973, AUDITE merged with the Fermate label in 2000,[1] relocating to Detmold in the process, where it is still based today.
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.
In 2013, AUDITE was voted Label of the Year by the jury of the International Classical Music Awards.