As 2025 draws to a close, leading critics celebrate the year’s finest classical albums, with Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s releases featuring prominently among them. The Guardian praises Kurtág: Játékok (Pentatone) in its roundup of the …

The New York Times featured Aimard’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II  ( Pentatone , 2025) in its “ 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now ” on 13 November.A few days later, the paper published “A 50-Year Friendship, Recorded in Music,” an interview-profile on …