Frank Peter Zimmermann

Zimmermann has fully absorbed the slightly eclectic style of [the First Concerto] and produces a performance of conviction, not to mention dazzling virtuosity. Hrůša accompanies with understanding... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Where this set really comes into its own is with the 20th-century concertos, most especially the Berg, a work whose combination of Romantic cantabile, emotional thrust and tonally stretched... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With Jakub Hrůša and his super-attentive Bamberg orchestra, Frank Peter Zimmermann trumps the self-confident projection of his younger self...Stravinsky’s framing movements seem defter now,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024 More…

this rewarding new release is a reminder of [Hindemith's] continued close affinity with the [viola]...Virtuosity is not so much the music's aim as expressivity, yet Zimmermann plays with brilliance... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A born Brahmsian, Ax gives full rein to the sheer massiveness of the First Piano Concerto, producing a performance of range and depth, intimately captured in this recording…the estimable Frank... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Drawn from the Berlin Philharmonic, the Baroque Soloists yield a cut-glass sound on modernised period instruments. As one might expect, these are honed, pristine accounts with scrupulous attention... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If there's a star on this disc it's Anni Kuusimäki, the harpist in the brief but weirdly touching tone-poem The Bard...Zimmermann is determined to peel off the mould of tradition and open up... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Under Hannu Lintu, the Finish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays with such clarity and insight that is feels like a beautifully balanced clockwork mechanism – albeit one with a mightily exuberant... — The Strad, November 2018 More…