Organised by the AMADEUS Festival Vienna in collaboration with Bösendorfer Salon, the competition welcomes aspiring musicians aged 15 to 35, emphasizing the Salon Music genre.

„Reload“ ist ein Schmelztiegel unterschiedlicher musikalischer Identitäten, ein Schatz umfangreicher, gesammelter Lebenserfahrungen – und eines der eindrucksvollsten und emotionalsten Alben unserer Zeit.

This album is a magical realm of sound colours. With the two Frenchmen Francois Couperin and Olivier Messiaen, Louisa Imorde has chosen composers for whom the very qualities of colour in music were important. One of the most exciting piano albums of recent months.

No less than 85 minutes of pure beauty on one CD. You just can't get enough of it. (opusklassik.nl / Aart van der Wal)

"What Swiss pianist Melodie Zhao and Howard Griffiths present here is sensationally good. Spirited, virtuosic, exceedingly vividly articulated, they serve up these concertos often misunderstood as inconsequential early works." (Fono Forum 04/ 2021)

For millenia, the camellia's flowers have exuded their delicate fragrance, their splendor of colors and a touch of exoticism. Its heyday in the Palmenhaus at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna is almost over, but its magic is forever captured in our new Collector’s Item Grand Piano Camellia.

If you haven’t been to the Ringstrasse, you haven’t been to Vienna. The Vienna Ringstrasse is the historical boulevard that more than any other was the lifeline of an era, a road that connected worlds.

The editorial value of this complete recording of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's piano works is inestimable: on a total of twelve CDs, Ana-Marija Markovina has recorded everything that was available, beginning with works from her childhood and youth and ending with revised versions of a whole series of pieces. (Michael Wersin, Rondo - Das Klassik & -Jazz Magazin, 29.01.2022)

On January 31, Linz celebrated the 85th birthday of composer Philip Glass at the Ars Electronica Center with a very special concert played by Dennis Russel Davies and Maki Namekawa.

Jörg Leichtfried wins the Lower Austrian Culture Prize 2021 in the category music. Awarded since 1960, this prize recognises outstanding achievements in artistic creation in Lower Austria.