“Superlative playing… [Aimard] is clearly a musician in demand. From this performance, it is not hard to see why.”
Simon Barrow | Edinburgh Music Review, August 2024
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PressDiapason: Five Star Review
“Pierre-Laurent Aimard journeys like a sleepwalker, suspended between dream and reality, revealing all those fragile, ephemeral, but also indelible things that arise from Schubert’s spontaneity. The performer (…) picks out the smallest note as if all of Schubert were contained therein. (…) An old-fashioned record, with depth and raw charm, where everything breathes poetry.”
This week marked the return of critically acclaimed pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard to the Salzburg Festival on 6 August, one of several at which he appears over the summer months this …
Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s Schubert Ländler album receives review from Gramophone Schubert composed around 450 dances for piano. While their original function may have been modest, all are exemplary of their kind, and …
“Aimard find something special every time” – Performance ***** | Recording *****
BBC Music Magazine, July 2024
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PressRondo – Album of the Week
“Aimard elicits exactly those degrees and states of romantic longing, suffering and happiness that can be found in Schubert’s great piano and song compositions. […] and you listen to him with fascination, even spellbound.” – Rondo, Album of the Week