"Mozart in Vienna" - Release date: 17 May 2010!
Gottlieb Wallisch’s debut on LINN Records features
a selection of Mozart’s best-loved works.

Listening samples and information about this recording can be found on the official LINN-website. The CD will be officially presented to audiences and the media in no less than three European capitals: 6 May in London, 4 October in Vienna and 2 November in Budapest.

Gottlieb Wallisch in Florida, USA with the Wiener Kammerorchester

Literally in the last minute Gottlieb Wallisch stepped in as soloist for an indisposed Philippe Entremont with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra for their tour of Florida.

16.11. 2009, 20:00 
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach
Haydn Hob. XVIII/11

19.11.2009, 20:00 
Lyric Theatre, Stuart, Florida
Mozart K488

The West Palm Beach News wrote about the Haydn-Concerto: "… he demonstrated flawless, glittering technique and an admirable understanding of the spirit of Haydn. One case in point: the final movement, which in the middle suddenly switches to the tonic minor. Wallisch dug right in, driving the folksy falling scale hard, reinforcing the peasant earthiness that helps make this composer’s music so vital."

Gottlieb Wallisch records with LINN Records

"Mozart in Vienna" will be the title of Gottlieb Wallisch´s debut CD for LINN Records
- a choice collection of Mozart´s finest piano works composed during his sojourn in Vienna.

Caroline Dooley, Business Manager of LINN Records comments: "Austrian pianist Gottlieb Wallisch has signed
to Linn Records for a series of recordings entitled “Mozart in Vienna”. These recordings will be an interesting
presentation of Mozart’s compositions for piano written in Vienna.  Included is the Sonata in D major K576,
the Variations in G Major K455 and the Rondo in A minor K511."

LINN Records Producer Philip Hobbs says “we are delighted to have Gottlieb Wallisch on board at the label. 
We are excited by the clarity and sensitivity of his interpretations, particularly of Mozart, and the vast international
touring schedule that he attracts.”

The recording was made at St George’s, Bristol in August 2009 and will be released in May 2010.

Austro-Armenian Music Festival launched in Yerevan, October 2009

From left to right: Tigran Mansurjan, John Sarkissian, Anna Maria Pammer and Gottlieb Wallisch presenting the AAF-Festival in Yerevan, Oct. 26th.

Gottlieb Wallisch is one of the directors and co-founders of the Austro-Armenian Music Festival which took place in the Armenian capital from October 27 until November 1 under the patronage of Dr. Michael Häupl, Mayor of Vienna. The five concerts at Komitas Chamber Music Hall in the heart of Yerevan featured a vast scope of Austrian classical music ranging from Haydn, Mozart and Schubert to the second Viennese school (Berg, Schoenberg and Webern) as well as Austrian contemporaries such as Balduin Sulzer, Rainer Bischof and Sebastian Themessl.
Find out more about the artists, programmes and background of the Austro-Armenian Music Festival.

Haydn-Cycle with Gottlieb Wallisch at the Vienna Musikverein in 2008/09

"Carte blanche" for Gottlieb Wallisch at the Vienna Musikverein: His series of three concerts dedicated to celebrate Joseph Haydn ended with a sold-out concert at the Golden Hall. Renowned partners in this project were Christopher Hogwood and the Camerata Salzburg, violinist Benjamin Schmid, cellist Richard Harwood and clarinetist Ralph Manno. The following interview was published by the Wiener Zeitung.

Gottlieb Wallisch performs John Sarkissian - Now on CD!

"Just in Time Now and Then" is the title of Living Artist Recordings most recent issue. It features, amongst others, the world premiere recording of John Sarkissian’s (*1962) "Theme an Variations for Piano", played by Gottlieb Wallisch. Click here to find out more about this outstanding piece of music.

MusicWeb International on Gottlieb Wallisch’s Scarlatti-CD:

„This is the eleventh CD in Naxos’s very slowly unfolding series of Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas. (…) Though I am not normally a great fan of piano performances of music originally intended for the harpsichord, I am always prepared to make an exception when the playing is sensitive to the composer’s intentions, as is the case here. In any event, with recommendable complete sets on the harpsichord already on the market…Naxos were wise to offer piano versions. Some sonatas may, in fact, have been intended for an early form of the fortepiano – K149 (track 16) is a case in point.
(…)
I hadn’t encountered Wallisch before hearing him on this CD, but this was a very promising introduction. My first complete run-through of the recording, with critical faculties at least partly suspended—at any rate, without pen at the ready —was very favourable. The name which keeps cropping up in any consideration of Scarlatti on the piano is that of Horowitz; I have to say that I actually preferred what I heard here to those Horowitz Scarlatti performances which I have heard.

Subsequent, more critical listening confirmed my initial favourable impression; Wallisch resists any temptation to make these sonatas into big pianistic statements and he is alive to the requirements of the variety of the music represented here. His style reminds me of Angela Hewitt’s Bach, my only criticism of which is that if she can play Bach on the piano so effectively, I’d love to hear her play his music on the harpsichord. Wallisch now enters my pantheon along with Hewitt and Stephen Gutman…“

Gottlieb Wallisch appearing with Orchestras Europe-wide this Spring

Spring 2008 sees Gottlieb performing several Piano Concertos with orchestras such as the BBC National Symphony Orchestra of Wales
(Mozart #19), the Wiener Akademie at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein Vienna (Beethoven #1) and the Liszt-Festival Raiding (Schubert/Liszt Wanderer-Fantasy), the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra (Mozart #19) and the ORSO Philharmonic at Konzerthaus Freiburg (Rachmaninoff #2). Later on this year Gottlieb is travelling to Chile for a 10-days-tour of recitals with a programme featuring works by Haydn, Schubert and Berg.

New Schubert-CD in the US-Press

Read the following review from  „The News & Observer“ about Gottlieb Wallisch’s third and concluding CD with Schubert-Sonatas:
“[…] In the third and final disc in a series devoted to Schubert’s 12 incomplete sonatas, Wallisch shows an easy, natural sense of touch, balance and timing in his native music. This disc includes Schubert’s first sonata, a playful work that shows the composer enjoying exploring harmonies and happening on profundity; the grander, mature eighth; two rarely heard fragments; and the great, last Sonata No. 15 in C major (“Reliquie”). Written in Schubert’s productive last year, when he was studying counterpoint and planning more symphonies, this is a vast and complex sketch for a gargantuan symphony. Wallisch creates great dynamic contrast and adds subtle washes of color that turn the piano into a rich collection of instruments. Not once, you go “Wow!” or think it necessary. We are in a different era. The neurotic, ego-driven performing of the last century seems to be over. (OK, there’s still Martha Argerich.) We have, instead, performers of modest but adequate means, who are full of respect for the music. Frankly, that’s enough to make it sound fresh and beautiful.” David Perkins, 16. September 2007

Schubert Sonata-cycle completed - Third CD in stores worldwide now

Schubert’s fragmentary and unfinished piano sonatas are among his most innovative and puzzling works surviving, as it were, as experiments in composition while offering a fascinating insight into the composer’s creative process. Gottlieb Wallisch’s first two CDs with Schubert’s sonatas were hailed by critics as "affectionate, idiomatic and warmly phrased performances that are hard to beat." The concluding third disc, which was released by Naxos in September, starts with Schubert’s very first sonata, continues with three fragments from his middle period, and ends with his last sonata fragment (the so-called "Reliquie"), an outstanding and progressive work that looks forward to the expressive world of Bruckner.

Gottlieb Wallisch performs at Gala Concert on the IAEA’s 50th Anniversary

On Monday, 17 September 2007, a Gala Concert will be held at the venue of the first IAEA General Conference, the Wiener Konzerthaus. The festive evening will feature the Wiener Symphoniker under Günter Neuhold, Gottlieb Wallisch will be the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.22, K.482. The ceremony will be commenced by addresses of the Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, the Austrian Federal Minister for European and International Affairs, and the Austrian Federal President. The General Conference is the highest policymaking body of the IAEA. It is composed of representatives of all Member States of the Agency.

Zeisl-CD on WDR 3!

On July 14th 2007 the new Zeisl-Piano Concerto-CD will be presented in "HörZeichen" on Radio WDR 3.
Join presenter Ulrich Mutz and listen to excerpts of this world premiere recording!

World Premiere Recording of Erich Zeisl’s Piano Concerto in C-Major

Gottlieb Wallisch
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Wildner, conductor.

New release by "cpo".

The official CD-Release was held on May 2nd, 2007 at the Jewish Museum Vienna.

The Piano Concerto is Erich Zeisl’s (1905-1959) first concerto and this spacious, technically challenging concerto is considered one of the most beautiful of all Zeisl’s works. As a pianist, Zeisl possessed a fluent technique and the ability to draw magical colours from the instrument. Hence, the soloist’s sonorities and figurations often strike the listener as having been improvised especially for this performance.