Klimt's The Tree of Life frieze in the dining hall of the Stoclet Palace in Brussels is a seminal work from his “Golden Period” and is still considered the high point of his artistic development. For this monumental frieze he produced equally impressive full-scale preliminary drawings. Revised several times, the drawings even contain Klimt’s own handwritten notes. Totally unique, they are now considered works of comparable artistic merit to the frieze itself, and are on permanent display at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna. Klimt’s frieze symbolizes the cycle of life, and how all forms of matter interrelate and influence one another.

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.

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.

Man kann leicht feststellen, dass die meisten bekannten Komponisten der Romantik nicht viel für die Flöte komponiert haben. Um diese traurige Tatsache als Flötistin zu lindern, spiele ich seit meiner Jugend Werke aus der Romantik, die für andere Instrumente geschrieben wurden und von denen viele mittlerweile zum Standardrepertoire für Flöte gehören.

All in all, her playing is dynamically varied and of great richness with its many colors. On a good-sounding Bösendorfer, the power of the left hand and the contrasts thus achieved are also particularly striking, so that the listener’s interest is kept alive by truly exciting interpretations.

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.

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)

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.