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The first prerequisite of great Chopin playing is arguably beauty of tone, as well as refinement and variety...Lortie is a model Chopinist: eloquent but never sentimental, elegant without ever... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The longer pieces on this recording show Louis Lortie at his splendid best, making light of technical demands and building up climaxes with total authority. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

an understated view of the composer, yet one that is fully cultivated and always convincing...not that Lortie is afraid of big expression, or lacking in virtuosity: his elegant playing always... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Lortie's musicianship is imaginative but never eccentric, with a technique that is always at the service of the music. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Atmospheres are intense, intimate, turbulent and dreamlike by turns; and Cooper injects every note with strength of personality…[her] sense of authority becomes vast in the Polonaise-Fantasie... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

For all the virtuosity and vivacity demanded by the works, the overall feeling here is one of intimacy, the refinement and control of his playing allowing the music to breathe in ways one does... — International Piano, January 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A decade after the start of his Chopin series, for its sixth volume Louis Lortie offers another carefully arranged bouquet, this time dominated by the gentle fragrance of mazurkas...on balance... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2020 More…