Due to the release of the Furtwängler box at audite the Foundation Berliner Philharmoniker and the Wilhelm-Furtwängler Society hosted a panel discussion with audite's producer Ludger Böckenhoff, Dr. Helge Grünewald as the Berlin Philharrmonic's spokesman and the sound engineer of the Berliner Philharmonie Klaus-Peter Groß.

In May audite will release a Furtwängler Box: All RIAS-recordings with Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic from 1947 until his death in 1954 on 12 CDs plus Bonus-CD.

„Gramophone recommends“ for the new SACD of Hideyo Harada with piano works by Tchaikovsky (The Seasons) and Rachmaninov (Corelli Variations).

The latest Mandelring Quartet production was awarded a “Star of the Month” by the German Fono Forum and labelled “Outstanding” by the International Record Review.

In June 2009 the Mandelring Quartet invites to the HAMBACHER MusikFEST 2009.

Vol. I of our Fischer-Dieskau edition was awarded “histórico” by the Spanish music magazine Scherzo.