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…these are both impressive performances: magisterial, richly sensuous with a kind of contained, old-school Romanticism, and with an electric charge several degrees above the average Beethoven... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The virtues of these performances are evident from the very start of the F major Sonata. There's an absolute unanimity of phrasing and articulation between Anne Gastinel and François-Frédéric... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

For more than two centuries Naples was a province of Spain, and after this ended in 1707 the remarkable cross-fertilisation of culture between them did not stop. Much of the Italian music featured... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Inspired changes of tone colour. — Gramophone MagazineMore…

…his playing is arguably more ebullient than refined yet it is also exhilaratingly energised and finely attuned to the composer's volte-face mentality. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2007More…

Without doubt the finest lute player in the world today. — San Francisco ChronicleMore…