APR

They are something of a holy grail among devoted pianophiles...Were there still a category for historic recordings, this would be a shoo-in for a Gramophone Award. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2026More…

This is a performance [of the Piano Concerto] for the ages, as fresh and spontaneous as many modern performances and in some respects even more so. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025More…

It tells us things about Brendel’s artistry that scarcely any other recording does. More importantly, it tells us things about Busoni that I seriously doubt can be accessed from any other source. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2024More…

APR’s is the most comprehensive single collection and has, by a country mile, the best annotation, booklet (Jonathan Summers) and transfers (Seth B Winner)...evidence, if it were needed, of... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2023More…

The original recordings are sonically well balanced and give a good measure of Kempff’s sonority. While the rare shellac pressings are admittedly of poor quality, any extreme noise reduction... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2017More…

a musical personality of a beguiling charm, a quality rarely encountered in today's more severe musical climate...You are reminded, too, of a naturalness and insouciance far removed from so... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015More…

Gieseking was indeed a ‘sorcerer’. Hear him in ‘Voiles’, ‘Les sons et les parfums’ or ‘Des pas sur la neige’ and you sense how everything is accomplished by tonal finesse rather than heavy underlining... — International Piano, October 2022More…