Browse: APR (label)

This disc shows why Bachauer was so admired as a performer. It helps, too, that the booklet is excellent and that the transfers similarly good. — MusicWeb International, 14th February 2014 More…

Goldenweiser's greatest student, Grigory Ginzburg (1904-61), clearly resembles his teacher in some ways: his tone is solid, his technical craft everywhere apparent, and his identification with... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Gaillard was the first pianist to publicly perform all of Debussy’s then-known piano music…perhaps most striking is his surprisingly sparse use of both rubato and pedal in these performances…Guilbert... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2019 More…

Nikolayeva's rubato in the Concerto's central Andante is as natural as breathing and throughout the Fantasia she inflects Tchaikovsky's sumptuously decorated melodies with a warmth and breadth... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008 More…

Documentation is good and the transfers too...These discs trace Cortot in the studio between 1947 and 1954 and reflect the vicissitudes of the time, and sometimes the toll taken on the pianist... — MusicWeb International, 19th February 2014 More…

Here in excellent sound, are his versions of the Appassionata and Pathétique sonatas, together with the Sonata Op.110... For beauty of thought and utterance it is hard to beat — Classic CD More…

Carlo Zecchi performs his Scarlatti with a delicate bell-like sonority, is a marvel of fleetness, his selection of familiar and unfamiliar numbers spun off with exhilarating brilliance and vivacity.... — International Piano, September/October 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Self-respecting pianophiles will already have most of these seminal recordings. But, compared with earlier issues, APR reveal a fuller, richer piano sound where every nuance is crystal clear... — Classic CD More…