"Eine Apotheose des Klavierduos"
- Rondo Magazin

"Das eingespielte Duo zeigt einmal mehr, dass sie mit zwei Klavieren ein unglaublich breites Farbspektrum schaffen können, in dem man sich beim Hören verliert. Auf ihrem neuen Album treiben sie sich gegenseitig an und strahlen nur so vor Virtuosität, bevor sie im nächsten Moment taumelnd über die Tasten schweben." 
- Helene Conrad, NDR Kultur

The multiple GRAMMY winner, jazz pianist and composer Gonzalo Rubalcaba receives the Grammy for his album "Skyline" in the category "Best Jazz Instrumental Album". On Skyline, Rubalcaba plays in a dynamic trio format, accompanied by Ron Carter on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums.

This album impresses with its freedom of expression, which builds on the solid foundation of European contemporary music as well as on the trends of jazz aesthetics. There are also steps out of the drawer in different directions that are often still undiscovered... (Jazz-fun.de)

I always thought Christa Ludwig was the greatest Brahms singer, but she was until I heard her sing Strauss. Again, I had to assign her a new throne. Then I heard her sing Wagner, and again I experienced the same thing. And when I heard her sing Wagner, and again I experienced the same thing. And when I heard her recently, with her incredible interpretation of the Old Lady in my musical "Candide", I had to give up. She is simply the best! (Leonard Bernstein)

Beatrice Berrut's very internalized and expressive playing interweaves wonderfully with Franz Liszt's late work, which soberly and suggestively at the same time, opened the way to modernity.

Two great artists, pianist András Schiff and composer/clarinettist Jörg Widmann, join forces for the first time on record, performing Brahms’s late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120, written in 1894. In between the sonatas Schiff plays Widmann’s evocative Intermezzi for piano. As Jörg Widmann explains in a programme note, these are works inspired by his friendship with András Schiff and by a shared love of Brahms, to whom they pay tribute. The album was recorded at Neumarkt’s Historischer Reitstadel.

Since the founding of Bösendorfer, famous architects, including Theophil Hansen, Anton Grosser, Josef Hoffmann, Josef Frank and Hans Hollein, have designed grand pianos for Bösendorfer time and again. Bösendorfer is reviving this tradition in the form of an “Architecture Series” and presenting the Secession model as the first grand piano of this series.Now one of the most photographed buildings in Vienna, the word Secession contains not only the building itself but also an artistic association, a style of construction and design, as well as a philosophy upon which everything is based. Inspired by this zeitgeist, of unity in diversity, the design of the Bösendorfer Secession Grand was developed.

22-year-old Elisabeth Waglechner from Vienna wins not only the 1st prize but also the audience and special prize in the piano category.

Beethoven is everywhere - especially in Vienna. He composed all of his masterpieces here, 1 opera, 5 piano concertos, 9 symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, and much more and thereby cemented Vienna’s position as the musical centre of Europe. Today, Beethoven is the most frequently played composer in the world and his Ninth Symphony is the most frequently performed work worldwide. He led music of the Viennese Classical era to its highest degree of development and paved the way toward Romanticism in music.

For his 250th birthday, Bösendorfer honours this great composer with a Limited Edition Grand Piano.