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 year’s top recordings.
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The Boston Globe also includes the album in its Top 10 of the year, noting:

“Aimard, who is as close to this project as any pianist, curates a selection of 81 pieces in this indispensable two-disc set. Every one of them shows how much emotional force can be compressed into the tiniest of forms.”

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The Times likewise highlights Aimard’s contribution among the year’s most acclaimed releases.
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Meanwhile, Moto Perpetuo selects Aimard’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (Pentatone) as a standout, writing:

“Aimard approaches this landscape with a dual perspective—historically informed in its attention to articulation, gesture, and colour, yet shaped by the contemporary sensibility that defines his artistic identity. The result is a reading in which the music’s architecture is always transparent, even in its most intricate pages.”