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A selected collection of recording awards, nominations, five-star reviews, Pizzicato Supersonic distinctions and outstanding critical responses. Ratings retain their original scales; nominations are identified explicitly.
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Ann Hallenberg, Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti, Romina Basso
La costanza trionfante was nominated in the Opera I category of the German Record Critics’ Award longlist 4/2026, published on 5 October 2026.
Jaume Darbra · 2026-06-09
“un hallazgo vivaldiano de primer orden”
★★★★★ · 5/5. A five-star review of the rediscovered Vivaldi recording.
Andrea Bedetti · 2026-04-04
“un autentico evento discografico”
Artistic: 5/5 · Sound: 4.5/5. An extensive historical, interpretative and recorded-sound assessment.
Norbert Tischer · 2026-06-20
“Both soloists are at their very best in their alternating roles”
★★★★★ · 5/5. Vivaldi mit Gefühl — a review of the vocal performances and I Barocchisti’s playing.
Maureen Buja · 21 April 2026
“It’s a wonderfully triumphant recording and will do much to advance Vivaldi research.”
An enthusiastic assessment of the reconstruction, the authoritative singing of Ann Hallenberg and Romina Basso, and the detailed scholarly notes. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Andrea Rossi · 2026
An exceptionally enthusiastic assessment of I Barocchisti and Diego Fasolis, praising the recording’s theatrical vitality, instrumental detail and expressive vocal characterisation.
Hajime Teranishi · November 2026
A positive Japanese review welcoming the revival of Vivaldi’s surviving opera music. It praises the virtuoso arias sung by Romina Basso and Ann Hallenberg and finds I Barocchisti and Diego Fasolis’s orchestral playing moving. Print edition, November 2026, no. 354, p. 94.
Angela Troilo, Daniele Salvatore, Fortuna Reditus Ensemble, Roberto Cascio
Quick Response Orchestra, José Daniel Cirigliano, Filippo Davoli
Paolo Vergari · 2021-03-12
Vergari warmly praises the dramatic coherence and expressive imagination of Peroni’s debut, highlighting its integration of contrasting musical languages and the contribution of Quick Response Orchestra and José Daniel Cirigliano.
Alessandro Nobis · 2020-12-20
Nobis strongly recommends hearing the work in its entirety, praising its depth, originality and compelling musical theatre, together with the contribution of the ensemble and clarinet soloist.
Ensemble Il Groviglio, Marco Angioloni
May 2020
The official review index for Musica 316 documents 4 stars for this recording on page 89. The full review has not been consulted.
Alan Neilson · 2021-04-16
Neilson praises Angioloni’s musical intelligence, diction, emotional sensitivity and the refined, responsive playing of Il Groviglio. He finds much to enjoy while criticising the lack of textual and dramatic context in the booklet.
Philippe Alexandre Pham · 2021-11
Included in the publication’s Christmas 2021 CD, DVD and book selection. The inclusion is confirmed by editor Philippe Alexandre Pham’s correspondence of 14 November 2021; the complete selection article is currently unavailable.
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Gilberto Scordari, Schola Cantorum Barensis
Anne E. Johnson · 29 May 2023
A favourable review praising the clear voices, subtle continuo and combination of fluidity and precision. Johnson welcomes the rediscovery of del Negro’s motets, finding this a worthy recording of repertoire that deserves renewed attention.
Barbara Frittoli, Dmitri Voropaev, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mattia Rondelli, Yuri Vorobiev
April 2024
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 355, p. 120. The official review index identifies Mattia Rondelli, the Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus, and the four soloists in Sarti’s Magnificat and Gloria and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Sylvain Fort · 24 October 2012
A favourable historical review of the earlier Sony edition of this 2011 Mariinsky recording, rated four out of five. Fort celebrates the luxuriant orchestral sound, excellent chorus and Rondelli’s generous direction, while expressing reservations about Barbara Frittoli’s vocal tone.
Giorgia Cinciripi, Orchestra Italico Splendore, Ensemble Festa Rustica, Giorgio Matteoli
Christophe Steyne · 2022-12-20
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 10/10. Not converted into stars.
Giovanni Acciai, Nova Ars Cantandi
Nomination announced 14 November 2024
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2025. Listed in the official nominations published on 14 November 2024.
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-07-15
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Giovanni Acciai, Ivana Valotti, Nova Ars Cantandi
Andrea Bedetti · 2026-05-25
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Bertil van Boer · 50:2 Nov/Dec 2026
“these come highly recommended.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
I Contrappuntisti, Marcello Trinchero, Marco Grattarola, Matteo Straffi, Roberto Passerini, Valerio Febbroni
Werner De Smet · 26 July 2026
An exceptionally enthusiastic assessment of the recording’s expressive range and historical significance, praising Trinchero’s direction, the soloists and the ensemble’s transparent, stylistically assured playing. No numerical rating is assigned.
Andrea Bedetti · 2026-02-09
“autorevole, lucida, pienamente immersa”
Disc of the Month, February 2026. Artistic rating: 5/5; technical rating: 4.5/5. The review praises Marcello Trinchero and I Contrappuntisti for reviving the expressive and spiritual world of sacred music in Thuringia.
Ensemble Locatelli, Francesca Longa, Jérémie Chigioni, Margherita Maria Sala, Thomas Chigioni
art · 2026-08-31
“spirituelle und sinnliche Freude auf Goldgrund”
An exceptionally enthusiastic review of Ferronati’s concertos and motets, praising the virtuosity and sensitivity of Ensemble Locatelli and the two vocal soloists. Published on p. 10. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Elisabetta Pallucchi, Lorenzo Tozzi, Lucia Casagrande Raffi, ROMABAROCCA ENSEMBLE
July 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 348, p. 82. The official review index identifies Romabarocca Ensemble, Lorenzo Tozzi, Elisabetta Pallucchi and Lucia Casagrande Raffi in Feo’s Cantatas, Volume 2 and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Fernando Marín, Nadine Balbeisi
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-08-29
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Jin Jiayu, Marius Bartoccini
Ken Meltzer · 48:3 Jan/Feb 2025
“The performances on the Da Vinci release are outstanding.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Ken Meltzer · 2025-01
Meltzer enthusiastically recommends the recording, praising Jiayu Jin’s idiomatic diction, expressive characterization and the sensitive fortepiano partnership of Andrea Bartoccini. He regrets the absence of English translations of the song texts.
Cantar alla Viola, Fernando Marín, Nadine Balbeisi
Andrea Bedetti · 2025-11-02
“an interpretative mastery of rare beauty and effectiveness”
Disc of the Month, October 2025. Artistic rating: 5/5; technical rating: 4.5/5. A warm recommendation of Nadine Balbeisi and Fernando Marín’s complete Kremberg recording, highlighting their scholarship, vocal expression and instrumental colour.
Alessandro Maria Carnelli, Ensemble Progetto Pierrot, Federica Napoletani
Alfredo Di Pietro · January 2024
An enthusiastic, extended review praising the coherent musical journey, Napoletani’s expressive singing, the ensemble’s sensitive playing and the recording’s clarity. Di Pietro finds that the reduced instrumentation concentrates rather than diminishes the music’s emotional force.
Cesare Fertonani · 15 March 2024
A highly positive review praising Carnelli’s refined chamber transcriptions, the natural continuity of the programme and the carefully detailed, enthusiastic performances by Federica Napoletani and Ensemble Progetto Pierrot.
Awarded the Special Prize at the Premio Abbiati del Disco 2024 for The Wunderhorn World.
Aart van der Wal · 2024-06-24
Praise for Carnelli’s imaginative musical continuity and Federica Napoletani’s expressive singing.
Erato Ensemble, Massimo Lombardi
Luigi Fertonani · 2026-08-18
“un ciclo magnifico”
Fertonani praises Fontanesi’s refined counterpoint and the enchanting beauty of Erato Ensemble’s singing. An exceptionally positive print review without a numerical rating. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Elisabetta Paglia (Mezzo-soprano), Christopher Howell (Piano)
John France · 2022-10-14
An exceptionally enthusiastic recommendation praising Paglia’s singing, Howell’s accompaniment, the recording and the documentation, while noting the absence of printed song texts. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Ensemble Locatelli, Ensemble Vocale Locatelli, Thomas Chigioni
Nomination announced 13 November 2025
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2026. Listed in the official nominations published on 13 November 2025.
Maciej Kułakowski, Marco Balderi, Simon Zhu, Stanisław Daniel Kotliński
Gabriele Cesaretti · May 2026 issue · 5/5
A five-star review praising Kotliński’s refinement, Italian diction and expressive sensitivity, Balderi’s attentive accompaniment and the contributions of Simon Zhu and Maciej Kułakowski. The review is reproduced on the singer’s official website.
Aurora Orsini, Estra Duo, Sofia Celenza
Francesco Saverio Mongelli · 2025-10-24
Mongelli enthusiastically praises the union of warm, brilliant guitar playing and a sweet, harmonically rich voice. He finds the performances evocative and the whole album an emotionally compelling journey that invites repeated listening.
Anna Noferini, Arianna Lanci, Chiara Cattani, Giacomo Grava, Gilberto Ceranto Junior, Roberto Noferini
Fabio Larovere · 2025-01-24
Larovere praises the originality of the programme, Lanci’s beautiful vocal colour and command of style, and the precision and theatrical force of the instrumental playing.
Andrea Rucli, Sophie Klussmann
November 2021
The official index of Musica 331 documents a 5/5 rating for this recording on page 68. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Giulia Beatini, Valentina Messa
Roberto Iovino · 14 September 2023
A highly positive review and conversation with Giulia Beatini and Valentina Messa, praising the recording and its excellent performers while exploring Clara and Robert Schumann through songs and piano transcriptions.
Chris Jarrett, Orlando Schenk
2025-01
The review, reproduced on Jarrett’s official website, enthusiastically praises his sensitivity to Hölderlin’s language and the vivid dialogue between Schenk’s baritone and the piano.
Diego Caetano, Richard Resch
Detmar Huchting · 28 February 2024
A Klassik Heute recommendation, with scores of 10 for artistic quality, sound and overall impression. Huchting praises Resch’s vocal beauty, diction and psychological insight, Caetano’s equal partnership and the warm sound of the Bechstein piano.
Linda Holt · May/June 2024 · 4/5
Four stars. Holt admires Caetano’s authoritative, sensitive piano playing and Resch’s dramatic engagement with the poems, while noting a strongly operatic vocal manner. The rating applies specifically to this Da Vinci recording within a comparative review.
Silvia Regazzo, Claudio Proietti
Ken Meltzer · 47:1 Sept/Oct 2023
Meltzer recommends this demanding song collection, praising Regazzo and Proietti’s expressive intensity and deep commitment to Pessoa’s poetry.
Coro Kemonia, Gabriella Costa, Matteo D’Apolito, Mauro Visconti, Nunzia Santodirocco, Salvatore Scinaldi, Vincenzo Bonomo
Nicola Cattò · 2023-02 · Composition: 5/5; performance: 3/5
Cattò strongly praises Cocomazzi’s Requiem, its expressive organ writing and the renewal of the sacred tradition. His two ratings distinguish the composition, five stars, from this performance, three stars: he admires Visconti and the choir, while noting difficulties in the vocal quartet.
Cantar alla Viola
Pablo Rodríguez Canfranc · 12 May 2022
Canfranc recommends the recording for its restrained beauty and its exploration of the relationship between voice and bowed vihuela, praising the duo’s approach to music at the beginning of the European Renaissance.
Johan van Veen · 2022
Van Veen praises Balbeisi’s voice and Marín’s engaging playing, finding the programme musically compelling. He also asks for more explanation of the arrangements and regrets the absence of song texts.
Monika Lukács, Stefano Ligoratti
Alfredo Di Pietro · 2022-01
An enthusiastic review praises the intensity of Lukács’s singing and Ligoratti’s responsive accompaniment, emphasising the expressive and timbral cohesion of their partnership.
Francesco Santoli, Rosa Montano
Lucia Fava · 2022-02-02
Fava welcomes this exploration of early nineteenth-century vocal rarities and praises Santoli’s expressive singing and virtuosity. She notes that the recorded piano is disadvantaged by the room’s resonance.
Accademia degli Imperfetti, Baltazar Zúñiga, Maurizio Less
December 2021
The official index of Musica 332 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 122. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Gilberto Scordari, Schola Cantorum Barensis
2022-02 · 4/5
The publisher’s review index for issue 333, February 2022, records a rating of 4/5 on page 77. The full review and its author have not been verified; no further critical conclusions are inferred from the index.
Ensemble Il Groviglio
Stéphane Lelièvre · 2021-06-08
Lelièvre warmly praises the continuo players, the differentiation of the characters and the cast’s ensemble work. He welcomes the opportunity to discover the oratorio, with a reservation about the rather muted recorded sound.
Michel Boesch · 2021-06-14
Boesch’s detailed account praises the expressive singing, theatrical exchanges and instrumental response in Il Groviglio’s performance. The cast and programme identify this recording, although the article mistakenly names a different label.
Anna Katarzyna Ir, ICASduo, Valerio Celentano
Francesco Biraghi · 2021-07
In issue 195, pages 61-62, Biraghi warmly praises Anna Katarzyna Ir’s expressive singing, secure intonation and warm vibrato, together with Celentano’s sensitive accompaniment and effective transcriptions. He welcomes the project’s contribution to the voice-and-guitar repertoire.
Lucia Porri, Maria Lucia Bazza, Paolo Lazzarini, Pierluca Porri, Proscenio-Ensemble, Stefano Ongaro
Marco Del Vaglio · 15 December 2020
Del Vaglio enthusiastically praises Proscenio-Ensemble, the balance between voices and instruments and the quality of its research into neglected nineteenth-century chamber repertoire.
Anna Rollando · 2020-11-14
Rollando praises the performers’ elegance, attention to detail and refined blending of voices and clarinets. Her review is followed by an interview with Stefano Ongaro and Lucia Porri.
Edmondo Savio, Marta Mari
June 2020
The official review index for Musica 317 documents 4 stars for this recording on page 98. The full review has not been consulted.
Fabio Larovere · 2020-05-17
Larovere warmly praises Mari’s dark, rich soprano and Savio’s playing, judging the recording highly valuable for both its performance quality and its selection of refined songs.
13 recordings +
Collegium Vocale Salernitano, Giulio Marazia, Orchestra Sinfonica Campana
Oderigi Lusi’s Sinfonia Abellana received silver recognition for Composition/Composer and Original Score. The distinction concerns the composition presented in this recording.
Massimiliano Donninelli, Moldova State Philharmonic Orchestra
Filippo Focosi · 2020-05-26
“interpretazione convincente e trascinante”
A nine-out-of-ten review celebrating the discovery of Cambissa’s orchestral music and Donninelli’s convincing, exhilarating interpretation with the Moldova State Philharmonic Orchestra.
Thanos Mitsalas, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Miltos Logiadis
2025-10 · Gold Medal
Gold Medal winner in the October 2025 Global Music Awards, recognised in the Instrumentalist, Contemporary Classical and Album categories.
Al Kunze · Vol. 52 No. 1
Kunze praises Mitsalas’s effortless virtuosity, Assad’s orchestration and the recording’s balance and detail. The review is reproduced on the guitarist’s official website. Soundboard, Vol. 52 No. 1.
Jesús Saiz Huedo · 2026-03
An exceptionally enthusiastic assessment of the soloist, orchestra, conducting and production, welcoming Mitsalas’s sustained commitment to Assad’s music. Reproduced on the artist’s official website.
Jim McCutcheon · January/February 2026
McCutcheon places the recording among the leading examples of its genre, praising the performances, orchestration and recorded sound. Reproduced on the guitarist’s official website. January/February 2026 issue.
David Pedrick · Autumn 2025
Pedrick praises Mitsalas’s virtuosity and interpretive energy in Assad’s two concertos. Published in the Autumn 2025 Short Takes column.
Bernardo Santos, Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, Osvaldo Ferreira
Henry Fogel · Issue 49:2 Nov/Dec 2025
Fogel warmly recommends this unusual Iberian programme, praising Santos’s flair and the orchestra’s feeling for local rhythms and colours, despite occasional caution and comparative reservations.
Beltrani Modern Piano Trio, Daniele Negrini, Orchestra Senzaspine, Pietro Beltrani, Tiziano Guerzoni, Tommaso Ussardi
2024-04 · Coup de coeur
The April 2024 catalogue marks this recording as a Coup de coeur, an editorial selection by the distributor.
David Whitwell, Enrico Carraro, Francesco Paolo Speziale, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Marcello Bufalini, Marco Pierobon
May 2019
The official review index of Musica, issue 306, lists this recording on page 83, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Enrico Bellati, Ezio Rojatti, Francesco Quaranta, Leonardo Dosso, Orchestra Cantelli, Sergey Galaktionov, Laura Magistrelli
May 2021
The official review index for Musica 326 documents 4 stars for this recording on page 103. The full review has not been consulted.
Jacopo Rivani, Orchestra Arcangelo Corelli
December 2021
The official index of Musica 332 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 100. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Dimitri Ashkenazy, Emanuele Arciuli
Peter Burwasser · September/October 2024
Peter Burwasser warmly praises the musical imagination of Del Corno and the commitment of the performers, singling out Six Memos.
18-24 March 2024
Selection as CD of the week, confirmed by the broadcaster’s correspondence.
Alberto Martini, Gianluca Scipioni, Marco Pierobon, Nilo Caracristi, Stefano Ammannati
2022-07/08 · 5/5
Five stars in Musica, documented by the ensemble’s official announcement of 30 June 2022. The announcement refers to the July-August issue.
Federico Biscione
Alfredo Di Pietro · January 2020
An enthusiastic review of Biscione’s ballet, praising its imaginative storytelling, coherent musical construction and expressive characterisation. Di Pietro also commends the ensemble and the clarity and spatial definition of the recording.
Daniela Ferrati, Ivan Gambini, Lucia Ferrati, Marcello Prayer, Mario Totaro, Pietro Conversano, Roberto Passarella, Trio Diaghilev
November 2021
The official index of Musica 331 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 118. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Jeff Reilly, Konstantinos Siskos, JAM Orchestra, Thirteen Strings of Ottawa, Kaveh Mirhosseini, Kevin Mallon
José Luís Mendonça · 22 August 2026
An enthusiastic, poetic review of Anthropomorphosis, exploring its intercultural and spiritual dimensions. Mendonça praises Jeff Reilly’s bass-clarinet virtuosity and the orchestral performances under Kaveh Mirhosseini and Kevin Mallon. Published in Angola, issue 1699, Culture, p. 35. No numerical rating was assigned.
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Carla Rovirosa Guals, Chiara Tiboni, Elena Bianchi, Giovanna Barbati, Les Amies Partimentistes, Mara Galassi
April 2024
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 355, p. 123. The official review index identifies Les Amies Partimentistes in Supriani’s complete cello works and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Gilda Buttà, Luca Pincini
28 March 2025
A highly positive review and interview exploring the chamber reinterpretation of Mainetti’s music, with particular praise for Luca Pincini and Gilda Buttà’s expressive partnership and natural virtuosity.
Matilda Colliard, Stefano Ligoratti
July 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 348, p. 73. The official review index identifies Matilda Colliard and Stefano Ligoratti in Brahms’s cello sonatas and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Andrea Bedetti · 2023-07-28
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Maria Canyigueral, Ramon Bassal
Nomination announced 15 November 2023
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2024. Listed in the official nominations published on 15 November 2023.
Iana Batina, Ilia Iashin
Werner De Smet · 2026-07-30
An exceptionally enthusiastic recommendation praising Iashin and Batina’s shared musical breath, expressive naturalness and revealing approach to transcription. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Luciano Tarantino, Paolo Scafarella
2023-11 · 5/5
Five stars, confirmed by the official review index for Musica 351, November 2023, page 76. The entry identifies Luciano Tarantino and Paolo Scafarella’s Brahms Hungarian Dances. The full review text has not been recovered.
Ludovica Rana, Maddalena Giacopuzzi
March 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 344, p. 83. The official review index identifies Ludovica Rana and Maddalena Giacopuzzi in cello works by Busoni, Cilea and Martucci and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Ken Meltzer · 47:1 Sept/Oct 2023
A firm recommendation praising Rana and Giacopuzzi’s secure technique, beautiful tone and committed response to three contrasting Italian chamber works.
Mono Guitar Duo
October 2021
The official index of Musica 330 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 78. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Duo Kontaxakis – Ivanovich
Luigi Fertonani · 2025-07-22
“un’avventura che consigliamo vivamente”
A strong recommendation of Duo Kontaxakis–Ivanovich’s Mussorgsky transcriptions and their equally successful Stevenson performances. No numerical rating is assigned. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Duo Kontaxakis–Ivanovich’s Pictures: Music for Two Guitars received silver recognition in the Duo and Producer categories.
Nomination announced 13 November 2025
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2026. Listed in the official nominations published on 13 November 2025.
McCutcheon
“first-rate musicians”
Lode esplicita ai musicisti, alle trascrizioni, all’insieme e alla registrazione.
2025 Season 3; results September 2025, interview 12 October 2025 · Diamond Prize
Diamond Prize at the World Classical Music Awards 2025, Season 3. The official announcement also includes an interview about the album, the transcription and its associated film; results were announced in September 2025 and the interview was published on 12 October.
Andrea Bedetti · 2025-07-28 · 4.5/5
Artistic rating: 4.5/5; technical rating: 4/5. The review commends the duo’s thoughtful Mussorgsky transcription and their engaged, convincing account of Stevenson.
Jim McCutcheon · January/February 2026, p. 65
January–February 2026, p. 65. An enthusiastic review of the duo’s arrangements, first-rate musicianship, immaculate ensemble and excellent recording quality.
Alfonso Baschiera (Guitar), Marco Nicolé (Guitar)
Francesco Biraghi · 2020-04
“un progetto discografico intelligente e una realizzazione musicale di valore”
An exceptionally enthusiastic assessment of Baschiera and Nicolè’s musical insight, instrumental character and intelligent programme. Published in no. 190, pp. 58–59. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Duo Noli-Soattin
August 2026
A positive Japanese review highlighting the duo’s original historical guitars and gut strings, the bright upper register of the terz guitar and its contribution to Giuliani’s buoyancy. Nava’s inventive handling of the instrument and the expressive breadth of Mertz’s duo writing are also appreciated. Print edition, August 2026, no. 755, p. 68.
Andrea Rocchi, Duo Cordé, Giuliano Marco Mattioli
Nomination announced 13 November 2025
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2026. Listed in the official nominations published on 13 November 2025.
Andrea Bedetti · 2025-02-10
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Alice Belardini Pini, Désirée Del Santo
Robert Markow · 48:3 Jan/Feb 2025
“Highly recommended.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Paul Lewis · 2024-09
“the artistry of these two young musicians takes my breath away”
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Del Santo and Belardini Pini’s artistry, fluent ensemble and sparkling recording. Published in the autumn edition, p. 35. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Alchimia Duo · Alice Caradente & Alessandra Ziveri
Antonio Brena · May 2018
“offrono il meglio delle rispettive qualità esecutive ed interpretative”
Brena praises Alchimia Duo’s performance and interpretation, the distinctive sound of the harp and the rediscovery of rarely recorded repertoire. Published among Amadeus’s selections for May 2018.
Duo Le Gentil Dame · Camilla Finardi · Daniela Santamaura
Giovanni Pirri · 30 January 2020
“La fusione del suono e della linea musicale risultano semplicemente incredibili.”
An interview with Camilla Finardi and Daniela Santamaura opens with exceptional praise for the album’s ensemble playing, freshness and musical understanding, then explores the repertoire and performance choices.
Eurythmia Quartet, Elena Talarico, Sofia Manvati, Emanuele Rigamonti, Giona Pasquetto
February 2019
Musica’s official index records a 4/5 review in issue 303, page 100. The full review has not been consulted.
Mario Mariotti, Ricciarda Belgiojoso, Walter Prati
M.L.P., editorial selection · 26 December 2018
Selected in Cultweek’s best albums of 2018. The entry praises the quality of the electronic work, its contemplative and ironic qualities, and the Interstellar passages connecting instrumental and natural sound through a synthetic filter.
Gilda Buttà, Luca Pincini, Paolo Zampini
Andrea Bedetti · 2022-10-05
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Massimo Privitera · 2023-02-24
An enthusiastic assessment of the trio’s expressive authority and intimate understanding of Morricone’s original chamber arrangements and concert music.
Gilda Buttà, Luca Pincini, Paolo Zampini
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-02-09
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Lorenzo Morandotti · 2024
“ispirazione e misura, grazia ed innata eleganza”
An enthusiastic assessment of the trio’s inspired, measured and elegant homage to Morricone. Original score: 9.
Ken Meltzer · 2025-01
Meltzer warmly recommends the performances, praising their expressive engagement and the arrangements of Morricone’s music.
2024-05-27/2024-06-02
Selected as CD of the week, as confirmed by the broadcaster’s correspondence and the promotional archive.
Estrovagante Ensemble, Riccardo Doni
May 2025
Awarded four stars in Musica, issue 366, May 2025, p. 72. The official review index confirms the programme, Estrovagante Ensemble, Riccardo Doni and the rating; the full review is not reproduced in this index.
Elisabetta Amistà · 2025
“tra i più riusciti di quest’ultimo anno musicale”
An exceptionally enthusiastic assessment of the ensemble’s refined taste, stylistic colour and assured direction.
Lorenzo Ricchelli, Gabriele Zanetti
Andrea Aguzzi · 19 November 2018
“uno dei dischi di chitarra contemporanea migliori di questo 2018”
An outstanding response to the original 2018 edition, praising the performances, imaginative repertoire and the courage of the saxophone–guitar partnership. No numerical rating was assigned. The current digital edition contains nine tracks.
Boito Quartet, Leonardo Zunica, Paolo Ghidoni
Remy Franck · 2020-09-23
“A grandiose interpretation!”
A five-star review praising the ensemble’s passionate unity, richness of sound and compelling interpretation of Chausson’s Concert.
Annie Gard, False Consonance, Johannes Festerling, Theo Small, Thomas Fields
Andrea Bedetti · 2023-10-03
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
AI VIS LO LOP, LO RAINARD, LA LEVRE
Andrea Bedetti · 2019-04-16
“una resa musicale che è trascinante, coinvolgente”
Artistic and technical assessments: 5/5.
Concerto Madrigalesco
Nomination announced 13 November 2025
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2026. Listed in the official nominations published on 13 November 2025.
Christophe Steyne · 2026-03-29
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 9/10. Not converted into stars.
Paolo Ghidoni, Gabriele Zanetti
Piero Barbareschi · 9 April 2020
Barbareschi warmly praises Ghidoni and Zanetti, the expressive possibilities of the violin-and-guitar version and the intimate recorded balance, welcoming both the performances and the musicological discovery.
Uwe Krusch · 2020-04-30
“Paolo Ghidoni’s inspired and technically flawless playing”
A five-star review praising Ghidoni and Zanetti’s inspired, technically assured and relaxed chamber approach to Paganini.
Isaline Leloup, Jean-Philippe Gandit, Martha Moore, Patrick Oliva, Ronan Kernoa
Nomination announced 16 November 2021
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2022. Listed in the official nominations published on 16 November 2021.
Alessandro Viale, Ignazio Alayza, Valentina Ciardelli, Veronica Granatiero
Valentina Ciardelli’s Music from the Sphinx received silver recognition in the Instrumentals/Instrumentalist and Classical 21st Century categories.
Ben Watson
“Music from the Sphinx works”
Ben Watson enthusiastically endorses Ciardelli’s inventive musical connections and the album’s combination of rock, jazz and classical influences. No numerical star rating is assigned.
2020-08-14
“un unicum prezioso nella discografia di ogni tempo”
An exceptionally enthusiastic review of Ciardelli’s technique, expressive range and imaginative arrangements, celebrating the album’s rich variety of colours and styles. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Ensemble Musikfabrik · Johannes Schöllhorn
Germán Reyes Busch · November 2019
Praised for the composers’ individual voices, outstanding ensemble performances and recording quality.
Amy Galluzzo, Ariana Nelson, Carpe Diem String Quartet, David Korevaar, Korine Fujiwara, Marisa Ishikawa
David Rowe · 2024-01-19
“an important and indispensable release”
An exceptionally positive review praising Korevaar and the Carpe Diem String Quartet’s advocacy, ensemble playing and dynamic range, calling the release important and indispensable. No numerical star rating is assigned.
SW · April 2024 · 4/5
Four-star review praising the lyrical and dramatic character of the quintets and the strong performances, with a reservation about the piano balance.
Daniel Rojas (Piano), Baldini Quartet (String Quartet), Daniel Rojas (Piano), Baldini Quartet (String Quartet), Stephen Cuttriss (Bandoneon)
October 2021
The official index of Musica 330 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 118. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
David Barker · 2021-07
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Rojas’s intelligent arrangements, expressive piano playing, the Baldini Quartet and Cuttriss’s partnership, and the outstanding recorded sound. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Francesco Zago (Electric Guitar, Electronics), Elena Talarico (Piano)
Claudio Bonomi · 2019-12-12
“un album tanto avventuroso quanto poetico”
Exceptional praise for Zago and Talarico’s adventurous, poetic musical partnership and the consistently compelling seven-part programme. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Ensemble Rosaces
Pascal Proust · 2019-12
“Une superbe osmose musicale au charme envoûtant.”
Enthusiastic praise for the ensemble’s imaginative fusion of medieval music and improvisation. Review reproduced in the artists’ press dossier, no. 89. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Gabriele Marzella, Issei Watanabe, Lux Terrae Baroque Ensemble, Neyza Copa
Archipelago, Chiara Tiboni, Francesco Romano, João Janeiro, Lisa Kawata Ferguson, Lorenzo Colitto, Marcello Scandelli
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-07-19
Artistic assessment: 5/5; recorded sound: 4.5/5. Andrea Bedetti’s personal Disc of the Month for July 2024.
Angelo Ottaviani, Antonio D’Augello, Antonio Merici, Donato Angelosante, Magnus Andersson, Nicholas Isherwood, Roberto Fabbriciani, Silvia D’Augello
Lorella Porrini · 2026-04-03
A strongly favourable assessment of Cavallone’s evolving sonic language and Fabbriciani’s sensitive interpretation, concluding with an unequivocal recommendation.
Barry Guy, Maya Homburger
Mario Gamba · 24 January 2026
An enthusiastic response to the recording’s originality and to Homburger and Guy’s extraordinary timbral sensitivity and imagination. The review is also reproduced on Sergio Armaroli’s official website.
Guitare Actuelle
August 2026
A favourable Japanese review welcoming the rediscovery of Scholz’s guitar music and the documentary research behind the recording. It particularly appreciates the beauty of the chamber works involving wind instruments. Print edition, August 2026, no. 755.
Hopper Piano Trio
July 2019
The official review index of Musica, issue 308, lists this recording on page 115, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Dario Destefano, Francesco Comisso, Olaf John Laneri, Trio Gustav
September 2020
The official review index of Musica, issue 319, lists this recording on page 102, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Candor Piano Trio
Remy Franck · 16 October 2026
“performed with great charm and vitality, rich in contrast”
Remy Franck praises the Candor Piano Trio’s charm, vitality and expressive contrasts in Granados, its energetic virtuosity in Chapí and its inspired, vibrant performances of Scharwenka. The programme also includes Różycki’s Rhapsody.
Cygnus Trio
Manuel Pacheco · 2025-03-12
“interpretaciones exquisitas, tan apasionadas como sutiles”
A five-star review praising the Cygnus Trio’s passionate, subtle and natural playing in Arbós, Turina and Ravel.
William Kempster · 48:3 Jan/Feb 2025
“An immensely enjoyable disc, enthusiastically recommended!”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
William Kempster · 2025-01
Kempster enthusiastically recommends the disc, praising the Cygnus Trio’s vibrant, idiomatic playing and its outstanding interpretation of Ravel.
Tatiana Larionova, Martina Biondi, Sara Pastine
Mark Novak · 50:1 Sept/Oct 2026
“Highly recommended.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Trio Orelon
Trio Orelon’s recording of piano trios by Dora Pejačević and Amanda Maier was nominated in the longlist for the German Record Critics’ Award, first quarter of 2025.
Irene Suchy · 2024-12-06
Suchy presents Trio Orelon’s recording in strongly appreciative terms. The official playlist includes movements from both the Maier and Pejačević trios.
Susanne Benda · 2024
Susanne Benda includes Trio Orelon’s Pejačević and Röntgen-Maier recording among the five releases that impressed her most in the critics’ survey of 2024.
David Barker · 2024-09-23
Barker strongly recommends the outstanding performances, praising the ensemble’s cohesion and musicality, comprehensive booklet and recorded sound. His minor reservation concerns the order of the works. Already present on the product page.
Giulia Contaldo, Natania Hoffman, Sara Pastine, Trio Vasari
Colin Clarke · 50:2 Nov/Dec 2026
“Very strongly recommended: the performances are absolutely of the highest standard, while the recording suits the music perfectly.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Werner De Smet · 2026-07-03
“Hun interpretaties zijn niet alleen technisch voorbeeldig”
An exceptionally positive assessment of Trio Vasari’s technical accomplishment, stylistic insight and understanding of Ghedini’s chamber writing. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Salvatore Dell’Atti · 2026-06-30
An enthusiastic account of Trio Vasari’s luminous interpretation, clear phrasing, carefully judged ensemble and modern, adventurous approach to Ghedini’s neglected chamber works.
Andrea Rossi
An exceptionally enthusiastic assessment of Trio Vasari’s analytical precision, poetic imagination and communicative force in Ghedini’s chamber music.
Affinity Quartet
Uwe Krusch · 2026-09-25
“With the utmost technical mastery, they make the air sing”
Pizzicato Supersonic distinction, separate from a numerical rating.
Andrea Bedetti · 2026-09-21
“a performance of extraordinary lucidity”
Disc of the Month, September 2026. Artistic rating: 5/5; technical rating: 4.5/5.
Mark Rothko Ensemble
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-04-25
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Fabio Napoletano, Vittorio Benaglia
November 2021
The official index of Musica 331 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 81. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Adam Skoumal, Vladimír Bukač
Luigi Fertonani · 2026-10-06
“un «interprete» magnifico”
Fertonani warmly praises Vladimír Bukač’s expressive viola playing and the programme of transcriptions with Adam Skoumal. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Andrea Bedetti · 2026-09-13
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Jean-Noël Regnier
October 2026, no. 152, p. 17.
Giulio Potenza, Nicolas Dupont
October 2018
Musica’s official index records a 4/5 review in issue 300, page 104. The full review has not been consulted.
Germana Porcu, Sara Costa
October 2018
Musica’s official index records a 4/5 review in issue 300, page 114. The full review has not been consulted.
Enrica Cavallo, Franco Gulli
June 2019
The official review index of Musica, issue 307, lists this recording on page 91, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Stefano Zanchetta
Elide Bergamaschi · 25 October 2023
A strongly positive review praising the artistic and exploratory value of the recording, Zanchetta’s rigorous, controlled approach and his ability to reveal the spiritual and existential tension of Weinberg’s three solo violin sonatas.
June 2023
Rated 5 out of five in Musica, issue 347, p. 125. The official review index identifies Stefano Zanchetta in Weinberg’s three sonatas for solo violin, Opp. 82, 95 and 126 and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Eugenia Canale, Pirro Gjikondi
July 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 348, p. 90. The official review index identifies Pirro Gjikondi and Eugenia Canale in Lattuada’s violin sonatas and twelve preludes and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Luca Schieppati, Piercarlo Sacco
22 December 2023
An extensive, strongly positive discussion of Saint-Saëns and this recording, praising the duo’s mature interpretation, close ensemble, clear phrasing, refined technique and ability to make virtuosity serve the music’s expressive substance.
Stefano Ligoratti, Yulia Berinskaya
Andrea Bedetti · 2022-09-12
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Ensemble Hortensia Virtuosa
Nomination announced 16 November 2021
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2022. Listed in the official nominations published on 16 November 2021.
Uwe Krusch · 2021-10-20
“Giovanni Rota, as soloist in the Ensemble Hortensia Virtuosa, presents these works with eloquently expressive playing.”
Pizzicato Supersonic distinction, separate from a numerical rating.
Johan van Veen · 2024
Van Veen welcomes the first recording of these violin sonatas and praises Giovanni Rota’s expressive playing, effective dynamic contrasts and energetic continuo support.
RÝNSKÝ, Vojtěch Jakl
Uwe Krusch · 2026-07-31
“They succeed in captivatingly portraying contrasting tempos and moods while mastering the technical demands without undermining the continuous flow of their performance.”
Pizzicato Supersonic distinction, separate from a numerical rating.
Andrea Bedetti · 2026-07-26
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Maureen Buja · 2026-10-11
“the basso continuo shifts from simple accompaniment to a co-conspirator with the violin”
An appreciative exploration of Albertini’s surviving sonatas and Rýnský’s recording, highlighting the ensemble’s improvisatory freedom, expressive contrasts and lively dialogue between violin and continuo. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Alessandra Ammara, Yulia Berinskaya
Nomination announced 15 November 2023
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2024. Listed in the official nominations published on 15 November 2023.
Five-star review in the print edition of Musica.
Andrea Bedetti · 2023-09-05
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Luigi Fertonani · 2023-10-17
“una conclusione strepitosa”
An exceptionally positive assessment of Yulia Berinskaya and Alessandra Ammara’s Brahms sonatas, with particular praise for the Third Sonata and Ammara’s virtuosity. No numerical rating is assigned. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Stefano Ligoratti, Yulia Berinskaya
Andrea Bedetti · 2022-09-12
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Alfredo Di Pietro · 2020-07
Di Pietro warmly recommends the first volume, praising the performers’ temperament, dynamic range, clarity and close partnership in Beethoven’s Sonatas Nos. 1, 7 and 10.
Stefano Ligoratti, Yulia Berinskaya
Andrea Bedetti · 2022-09-12
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Emmanuele Baldini, Luca Delle Donne
Andrea Bedetti · 2019-04-04
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Daniel Gardiole, Tatiana Mesniankine
Luigi Fertonani · 2024-05-14
“da ascoltare e riascoltare”
An exceptionally positive assessment of Tatiana Mesniankine and Daniel Gardiole’s Prokofiev–Girard programme, praising the Prokofiev interpretation and its exhilarating finale. No numerical rating is assigned. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-02-22
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Livia Bidoli · 2025-11-10
“interpreti perfetti”
The review praises the performers’ exceptional expressiveness and fluency.
Tatiana Samouil, Maryana Kozyreva
Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand
September 2026, no. 151, p. 11.
Giuliana De Siato, Annarosa Partipilo
Andrea Vecchiato, Elisabetta Bocchese, Fabio Pupillo, Giusy Mascheretti, Maddalena Lotter, Marco Nicolé, Monica Finco, Nicola Mazzanti, Roberto Scarpa Meylougan, Saverio Tasca, Simone Sandri
November 2017
Musica’s official index records 5/5 in issue 291, page 122. The full review has not been consulted.
Cristina Romanò, Danilo Zaffaroni, Luigi Magistrelli
December 2017
Musica’s official index records 4/5 in issue 292, page 83. The full review has not been consulted.
Ensemble Festa Rustica, Giorgio Matteoli
Carlo Vitali · April 2018
An enthusiastic excerpt praises Matteoli’s phrasing, spontaneous ornamentation and the continuo’s variety of colour, favourably comparing the performance with an established recording. The excerpt is reproduced on the artist’s official website.
Gabriele Formenti · 20 June 2018
A five-star recommendation of Handel’s recorder sonatas, praising Matteoli’s expressive sound and musical imagination, the continuo ensemble and the quality of the recording. The review is reproduced in the artist’s official archive.
Leonardo De Marchi, Matteo Evangelisti, Sauro Berti
June 2019
Musica’s official index records a 4/5 review in issue 307, page 115. The full review has not been consulted.
Monica Finco, Roberto Scarpa Meylougan
October 2018
Musica’s official index records a 5/5 review in issue 300, page 89. The full review has not been consulted.
Joueurs de Flûte
April 2020
The official review index of Musica, issue 315, lists this recording on page 118, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Francesco Albertini, Giacomo Alfano, Lorenzo Fazzini
October 2019
The official review index of Musica, issue 310, lists this recording on page 105, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Vagues Saxophone Quartet
Giuseppina La Face · 2023-09-03
“Impeccabili i quattro interpreti”
An enthusiastic assessment of the performance, technique, refinement and recording.
Manuela Cigno, Vincenzo Paratore
Uwe Krusch · 2020-09-14
“the trombone sound is powerful, but also soft and smooth.”
A five-star review praising Paratore’s supple tone and musical taste, alongside Cigno’s confident and sensitive piano playing.
Clarissa Carafa, Gaia Gaibazzi
Elisabetta Amistà · 2025
“la squisitezza dell’interpretazione oltrechè della assoluta intesa”
An exceptionally enthusiastic appraisal of the duo’s empathy, tonal balance and expressive ensemble playing.
Alfredo Di Pietro · 2025-04
“Una grande prova interpretativa”
An exceptionally enthusiastic review of Gaia Gaibazzi and Clarissa Carafa, praising their expressive partnership, technical command and deeply moving Brahms interpretation. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Vanessa Davis · 2025-12
An exceptionally enthusiastic review of Gaia Gaibazzi and Clarissa Carafa, praising Gaibazzi’s warm, vibrant tone, expressive range and technical precision, and the duo’s outstanding unity and fresh interpretations of Reger, Schumann and Brahms.
Italian Saxophone Quartet
Andrea Bedetti · 2018-03
An exceptionally positive assessment of The Italian Way, praising the quartet’s expressive technique, transcription colour and recording quality. Artistic judgement: “Ottimo–Eccezionale”; technical judgement: “Eccezionale”. Published on pp. 273–274. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Rita D´Arcangelo, Maria Pstrokonska-Mödig, Polish String Quartet Berlin, Sebastian Sokol, Tomasz Tomaszewski
Claudio Bolzan · 2026-07
A five-star review praising D’Arcangelo’s fluid, brilliant playing, expressive tone and lively dialogue with the string players. Published in no. 378, July–August 2026, pp. 108–109.
Michael Ullman · September-October 2026
Ullman praises D’Arcangelo’s warmth, expressive detail and conversational partnership with the strings, finding the performances competitive with distinguished alternatives. Review reproduced on the artist’s official website.
Elena Cecconi, Luigi Magistrelli, Matteo Fedeli
Rick Anderson · 5 October 2026
Anderson praises the music’s unusual instrumental character and the performers’ taste and near-perfect intonation.
Luigi Attademo, Gramaglia – Attademo Duo, Simone Gramaglia
Nomination announced 14 November 2024
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2025. Listed in the official nominations published on 14 November 2024.
Danilo Dellepiane, Francesco Verzillo
Roberto Iovino · 7 December 2022
An enthusiastic review praising Verzillo’s clear intonation, expressive taste and assured technique, alongside Dellepiane’s authoritative accompaniment. Iovino welcomes the exploration of the French Romantic trombone and also appreciates Verzillo’s own Poème and Carmen transcriptions.
Diego Caetano, Lana Kuscer
Diego Caetano and Lana Kušcer’s Nuances Françaises received silver recognition in the Classical category.
Chen Hu Jie (Clarinet), Albin Axelsson (piano)
Luigi Fertonani · 2024-10-01
“Un disco fuori dall’ordinario”
An exceptionally positive response to Chen Hu Te and Albin Axelsson’s northern clarinet programme, praised for its agility and capacity to surprise. No numerical rating is assigned. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Ewa Kowalski (Flute), Anna Rutkowska-Schock (Piano)
2025-05
Included among Musica’s five-star recordings of the month in May 2025; the magazine’s selection identifies the review on p. 96.
2025 · Winner, Foreign Phonographic Recording
Her Journey, performed by Ewa Kowalski and Anna Rutkowska-Schock, won the foreign phonographic recording category at the 2025 Musical Eagles awards. The official results name the album and Da Vinci Classics on pages 44 and 46.
David Howie, Michael Duke, HD Duo
Paul Ballam-Cross · 2024-04-24
Editor’s Choice, June 2024. The review awards HD Duo’s Australian soprano-saxophone programme four and a half stars.
Paul Cooke · 2024-06-18
A 4.5-star review of HD Duo’s Australian programme, highlighting the arrangements, expressive range and commissioned works.
Baldo-Corona duo, Chiara Corona, Davide Baldo
Luca Rossetto Casel · Musica 374, March 2026 · 5/5
Rossetto Casel awards five stars, praising the balance, dialogue and expressive sensitivity of Davide Baldo and Chiara Corona in this French programme for flute and piano. Musica, issue 374, March 2026, pp. 80-81.
Arzhel Rouxel, Casale – Rouxel Duo, Samuel Casale
Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand
September 2026, no. 151, p. 10.
Claudia Bracco, Luigi Magistrelli
Madelyn Moore · 2023-12
An enthusiastic recommendation of Luigi Magistrelli and Claudia Bracco’s Danzi, praising their lyrical playing, effortless technique, historical understanding and sensitive musical partnership on clarinet, basset horn and piano.
Duo Gardel
Andrea Rossi · 2026
An exceptionally enthusiastic recommendation praising Duo Gardel’s narrative coherence, emotional depth, instrumental balance and individual approach to Gardel and Piazzolla. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Cesare Guzzardella · 2026-01-17
Guzzardella warmly recommends the album, praising the performers’ instrumental command, shared interpretive purpose and expressive penetration of the tango repertoire.
Duo Alambic: Nicolò Nigrelli (Cello), Margherita Berlanda (Accordion)
2022-07-21
A strongly favourable review of Duo Alambic’s debut and the expressive dialogue of cello and accordion in Bach.
Alfredo Di Pietro · 2023-01
An enthusiastic review praises the duo’s polyphonic clarity, poetic expression and carefully balanced dialogue between cello and accordion.
Giancarlo Guarino, Nilo Caracristi
Paolo Zecchini · 2026-06
Five stars for the intelligence of the programme, Caracristi’s secure and controlled horn playing, and Guarino’s incisive, structurally active contribution. Musica no. 377, June 2026; the link leads to the publisher’s page for the issue.
Francesca Venturi Ferriolo, Hwa-Jeong Lee, Johannes Berger
December 2020
The official review index for Musica 322 documents 4 stars for this recording on page 74. The full review has not been consulted.
Elisa Baciocchi String Quintet
May 2021
The official index of Musica 326 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 76. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
AUGUSTO GASBARRI , CLARA FRANZISKA SCHOETENSACK, DUO PIANISTICO DI FIRENZE
April 2023
Rated 5 out of five in Musica, issue 345, p. 85. The official review index identifies Duo Pianistico di Firenze, Clara Franziska Schoetensack and Augusto Gasbarri in Czerny’s three characteristic sonatas, Opp. 119-121 and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Rebecca Raimondi, Sylvia Demgenski
Johan van Veen · 2025-07-29
A strong recommendation of the duo’s expressive playing and historically grounded approach to the continuo.
Biberfan · 2025-12-17 · 4.5/5
A four-and-a-half-star review praising the duo’s close musical partnership, rhythmic vitality, technical assurance and attractive sound, with a reservation about the stylistic approach to Fontana.
ON THE BRIDGE Ensemble, Alessandro Brutti, Benedetta Giolo, Carlotta Colombo, Emanuele Rigamonti, Matteo Vercelloni, Sara Merlini, Simone Ceppettelli, Stefano Cerrato, Vittorio Zelocchi
February 2021
The official review index for Musica 323 documents 4 stars for this recording on page 123. The full review has not been consulted.
Alma Stolte, Anna Reisener, Mirjam-Luise Münzel, Tiefsaits
Bertil van Boer · 2025-07
Van Boer strongly recommends this unusual cello programme, praising the three players’ matched tone, intonation, phrasing and the recording’s sonorous quality.
Johan van Veen · 2025-05-28
Van Veen gives a particularly warm recommendation to Tiefsaits’ debut, praising its repertoire choices, stylistic insight and ensemble playing.
Ensemble La Selva
May 2022
The official index of Musica 336 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 74. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Giuseppe Falciglia, Intarsio Armonico, Isobel Cordone, Jeanne Chicaud
Johan van Veen · 2024-10-27
Van Veen regards every sonata as a discovery and praises Intarsio Armonico’s outstanding command of the repertoire.
Cristina Centa, Flavia Del Giudice, Giuseppe Selmi, Jacopo De Biasi, Lisa De Polo, Manuel Cester, Marco Moriello, Raffaele Giordani, Tommaso Orsi
Lorenzo Montanaro · 2025-01
In the January/February 2025 issue, Montanaro warmly praises the beauty and emotional force of Malagoli’s recording, stressing the musical value of the recovered works beyond their historical importance.
Italian Classical Consort, Luigi Magistrelli, Margherita Tomasi
November 2018
Musica’s official index records a 5/5 review in issue 301, page 116. The full review has not been consulted.
Il Furibondo String Trio, Lello Narcisi, Gianni De Rosa, Liana Mosca, Marcello Scandelli
December 2020
The official review index for Musica 322 documents 5 stars for this recording on page 89. The full review has not been consulted.
Salvatore Carchiolo, Maria de Martini
May 2021
The official index of Musica 326 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 100. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Albisi Ensemble
Massimo Viazzo · 2024-12
In issue 362, p. 72, Viazzo warmly recommends this rediscovery of Albisi’s wind chamber music, praising the performers’ care, freshness, enthusiasm and sense of irony. The review text is documented in the artist’s correspondence.
Livia De Romanis, Livia Tancioni, Maria Caturelli, Michele Tozzetti
2024-04 · Coup de coeur
The April 2024 new releases catalogue marks the Farrenc chamber music album as a Coup de coeur. This is a distributor’s editorial selection.
Ensemble Giardino di Delizie
April 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 345, p. 115. The official review index identifies Ensemble Giardino di Delizie and Ewa Anna Augustynowicz in Alla Polacca and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Johan van Veen · 2024
Van Veen praises the programme’s coherent construction and the ensemble’s articulation, dynamic variety and vivid characterisation.
Quartetto Cherubini
Salvatore Sclafani · 2024-03-12
Sclafani strongly praises the quartet’s intonation, blend and varied colours, and the recording’s documentary value for early saxophone chamber repertoire.
2024-11 · 5/5
Five stars, confirmed by the magazine’s official review index for Musica 361, November 2024, page 109. The full review text has not been recovered.
MVSICA PERDVTA, Vincenzo Bianco
March 2019
Musica’s official index records a 4/5 review in issue 304, page 78. The full review has not been consulted.
La Vertuosa Compagnia de’ Musici di Roma
Johan van Veen · 2024
An enthusiastic review of both La Ferté volumes, describing the performances as exemplary and the complete set as a valuable addition to the discography. Van Veen praises Losito’s articulation and freedom, and the harmonic and rhythmic support of Lopa and Pietrocini.
Giorgio Sasso, Insieme Strumentale di Roma
Johan van Veen · 2025
An unequivocal recommendation praising the ensemble’s excellent playing, tempos, dynamics and expressive slow movements. Van Veen would have preferred more Albinoni instead of the alternating Vivaldi sonatas, but strongly recommends the performances.
Cecilia Iannandrea, Giacomo Benedetti, L’Armonia Delle Cetre, Léo Brunet, Matteo Saccà, Rossella Pugliano, Valeria Brunelli
Anne E. Johnson · 10 July 2023
A favourable discussion of recent Albinoni recordings, praising L’Armonia delle Cetre’s expressive handling of dissonance, delicate ornamentation and consistent dance rhythms. Johnson also credits Giuseppe Famularo’s vivid, three-dimensional recorded sound.
Johan van Veen · 2025
An unequivocal recommendation praising the excellent performances, well-judged tempos, dynamic differentiation and expressive slow movements. Van Veen welcomes the period-instrument recording of Albinoni’s complete Op. 3 as an important addition to the discography.
Ensemble Locatelli
Bertil van Boer · 2023-11
Van Boer strongly recommends the recording, praising the violin’s secure tone and accuracy and the balanced, responsive continuo. He welcomes the rediscovery of Ferronati’s inventive sonatas.
Marta Tacconi, Stefano Parrino
Antonio Arias · 2023-03
A highly enthusiastic review of Luca Russo’s arrangements and the performances by Stefano Parrino and Marta Tacconi. Arias praises the flautist’s beautiful tone and poetic phrasing, the pianist’s subtle chamber playing and the recording’s delicacy and serenity. Issue 27, March 2023, pp. 57-58.
Arnau Rovira i Bascompte, Judith Stapf, Marco Sanna, Trio Orelon
James H. North · 46:6 July/Aug 2023
North calls this a superb recital, particularly admiring Stapf and Sanna in the Romance and Violin Sonata, while also welcoming the trio’s commitment to Beach’s chamber music.
David Howie, Michael Duke
Shamistha de Soysa · 2022-01-21
De Soysa praises the expertly played, entertaining new repertoire and the equal partnership of saxophone and piano. She notes the abrupt mood changes in Chatman’s sequence and limited background information for some works.
Gwen Bennett · 2022-08-27
An excerpt reproduced by Broadstock praises Hammerblow as a powerful, compelling work and a demanding showcase for HD Duo. Only the passage about this work has been verified.
In tempore belli
Lorenzo Morandotti
Morandotti praises the trio’s fresh, empathetic approach to Bach, its careful preparation and contrapuntal clarity, and the expressive quality of the Capriccio. He also commends the dynamics and spatial definition of the live recording.
Nexas Quartet
Isabella Brown · 2021-07-19
Brown praises the quartet’s cohesion, expressive range and convincing translation of tango gestures onto saxophones. She particularly values the Ángel suite and the addition of Daniel Rojas and Stephen Cuttriss in Piazzolla’s Four Seasons. The reviewer discloses previous work with two of the musicians.
Brett Allen-Bayes · 2021-10-13 · 4/5
Allen-Bayes praises the ensemble’s smoothness and varied tone colours in its Latin American programme. The four-star rating is also explicitly confirmed in Limelight’s 2023 coverage of the quartet; the full 2021 review requires a subscription.
Alessandro Deiana, Fabio Furia
Stefano Dentice · 2022-09-24
Dentice warmly praises the duo’s emotional communication, melodic sensitivity and close interplay, valuing musical expression over displays of virtuosity for their own sake.
Duo Micucci – Di Marco
A. M. · 2021-12
Selected in Cultweek’s best albums of 2021. The short assessment recommends the recording for its professional, rigorous performance of comparatively unfamiliar Grieg repertoire.
Duo Noli – Soattin
2021-09 · 5/5
Musica’s September 2021 review index records five stars for Duo Noli-Soattin’s works by Doisy, Merchi and De Lhoyer, on page 44. The full review and author remain unverified.
Accroche Note Ensemble, Akhanta Ensemble, Alexis Pellettier, Armand Angster, François Veilhan, Isabelle Chomet, Jérôme Polack, Mario Gomar, Mémoires Sonores Ensemble
Bernard Grasset · 2022-08
In the review reproduced on the composer’s official site, Grasset welcomes the album’s poetic depth and treatment of space and time, while regretting the absence of the sung and spoken texts.
Sophie Renée Bernard · 2021-05
The composer’s official archive reproduces Bernard’s enthusiastic account of the music’s imagery and memory, praising the committed, expressive performers.
Auditivvokal Dresden, Dante Burotto, Ensemble Iberoamericano, Guillermo Lavado, Karina Fischer, Taller de Mùsica Contemporànea, Taller Sonoro Sevilla
Álvaro Gallegos · 2021-05-18
Gallegos gives a warmly appreciative account of the album’s six works, praising the expressive singing, detailed direction, instrumental colour and the contrast within the programme. The article also includes comments from the composer. This is a written review on the broadcaster’s website.
Germán Reyes Busch · 2021-09
An enthusiastic assessment of the album, praising the imaginative combination of contemporary techniques, jazz and Chilean cultural sources, together with the exceptional performances. The reviewer singles out the clarinet playing in Descuajeringado, the expressive force of Indómito and the flute writing in Radio(a)fonía II.
Federico Rovini, Ruggero Marchesi
A warmly appreciative review of the programme, praising Marchesi’s luminous violin sound and the lively, impassioned dialogue with Rovini’s assured piano playing. The article also welcomes Gustavo Marchesi’s programme notes.
Alberto Plaza, Alfonso Padilla, Dúo Icarus
Michael El Khouri · 2021-10
El Khouri praises the quality of the compositions, the duo’s playing and the exploration of saxophone-and-guitar sonorities, while noting that the recording sometimes places the saxophone too far forward relative to the guitar. Issue 196, pp. 55-57, verified against the full review supplied by the magazine.
Liliana Kehayova, Mario Hossen, Piero Barbareschi
Luigi Fertonani · 2020-08-25
Fertonani warmly welcomes the recording’s historically informed interpretation and singles out Hossen’s virtuosity in the faster movements. Verified against the complete newspaper review supplied to the label.
Achrome Ensemble, Camila Salazar Zender
Filippo Focosi · 2020-09-21 · 7.5/10
Focosi strongly praises the vitality, emotional range and intellectual interest of the music, and Achrome Ensemble’s excellent performances. He highlights the three composers’ different but complementary tonal languages.
Empty Words Percussion Ensemble · Complete Percussion Works, Vol. 1
Kyle Cherwinski · 2017-11
Praised for phenomenal performances and its understanding of Cage’s sound and silence.
Andrea Bedetti
Praised for interpretative insight and outstanding recorded sound.
204 recordings +
William Grant Naboré
Rémy Franck · 23 October 2026
Franck praises Naboré’s individual reading of Sonata Op. 111 and the expressive depth, clarity and structural command of his Diabelli Variations.
Cristiana Pegoraro
September 2018
Musica’s official index records 4/5 in issue 299, page 104. The full review has not been consulted.
Pietro Soraci
June 2019
Musica’s official index records a 5/5 review in issue 307, page 77. The full review has not been consulted.
Massimiliano Motterle
May 2018
Musica’s official index records a 4/5 review in issue 296, page 98. The full review has not been consulted.
Roberto Piana
October 2018
Musica’s official index records a 4/5 review in issue 300, page 97. The full review has not been consulted.
Chiara Bertoglio
June 2020
The official review index of Musica, issue 317, lists this recording on page 70, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Chiara Bertoglio
February 2022
The official index of Musica 333 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 73. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Massimiliano Motterle
March 2022
The official index of Musica 334 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 101. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Marco Sollini
October 2021
The official index of Musica 330 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 81. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Mauro Cecchin
June 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 347, p. 85. The official review index identifies Mauro Cecchin in Robert Casadesus’s piano works and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Alice Baccalini
June 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 347, p. 77. The official review index identifies Alice Baccalini in Brahms’s Scherzo Op. 4, three early dances, Handel Variations Op. 24 and Klavierstücke Op. 119 and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Emanuele Delucchi
Bryce Morrison · 23 May 2025
A strongly positive assessment of Delucchi’s conviction, responsiveness to Medtner’s contrasting moods and the excellent recorded sound. Originally published in the Summer 2025 issue of International Piano and reproduced by Gramophone.
Igor Cognolato
Letizia Michielon · January 2026
A five-star review exploring Amici’s dialogue with Schumann, Beethoven, Debussy and other musical traditions, and praising Cognolato’s poetic refinement. Published in the January 2026 issue, p. 72.
Silvia Belfiore
Letizia Michielon · January 2026
A five-star review praising Belfiore’s continuing exploration of African piano music and the recording’s expressive intensity and broad cultural scope. Published in the January 2026 issue, p. 72; the linked scan also contains the review of Amici’s Piano Works.
William Grant Naboré
Bryce Morrison · 14 April 2026
“a magnificent realisation of a cruelly exposed score”
Morrison praises Naboré’s deeply expressive Bach-Brahms Chaconne and the musical integrity of a recital he finds magnificent, while noting occasional strain in Scriabin. No numerical rating is assigned.
Pietro Rigacci
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-09-18
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Elisabetta Amistà · 2025
“Il pianismo di Rigacci è pervaso dalla completa padronanza del suono”
An outstanding appraisal of Rigacci’s control of sound, continuity of musical thought and identification with Scriabin’s expressive world.
Allan Manhas
Jean Lacroix · 2025-07-09
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 9/10. Not converted into stars.
Victoria Terekiev
Nomination announced 15 November 2022
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2023. Listed in the official nominations published on 15 November 2022.
James Harrington · 46:6 July/Aug 2023
Harrington praises Terekiev’s idiomatic playing, expressive character and clear recorded piano sound, and welcomes the prospect of a second volume.
Alexandra Ivanoff · 2023-02-06
Ivanoff praises Terekiev’s crisp energy, accomplished technique and sparkling characterisation, with a personal preference for more expressive freedom in Poem.
Victoria Terekiev
Andrea Bedetti · 2025-02-13
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Andrei Gavrilov
Nomination announced 15 November 2022
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2023. Listed in the official nominations published on 15 November 2022.
Nicola Cattò
Valutazione esplicita: 5/5.
Remy Franck · 2022-03-24
“His interpretation is very imaginative, very lively, very spontaneous, very rich in contrasts and very personal.”
A five-star assessment of Gavrilov’s vivid, personal interpretations, noting their spontaneity, expressive contrasts and unconventional approach.
Maria Gabriella Mariani
Alessandro Cammarano · 2024-11-03
“sensibilità interpretativa fuori dal comune”
Il recensore sottolinea una sensibilità fuori dal comune e una registrazione impeccabile.
Lucia Paradiso
Andrea Bedetti · 2023-10-31
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Massimiliano Damerini
Riccardo Viagrande · 7 June 2025
Viagrande praises Damerini’s splendid performance of Landini’s Eighth Piano Sonata and the recording’s exceptional historical importance. The article also discusses a separate recording of Landini’s cello sonatas.
Gabriele Moroni · 2024-12
A five-star review praising Damerini’s remarkable performance of Landini’s Eighth Piano Sonata. Published in no. 362, December 2024–January 2025, pp. 100 and 102.
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-08-13
“Dominare per donare”
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 3.5/5. Praise for Damerini’s commanding, deeply expressive realisation of Landini’s Eighth Sonata.
Massimiliano Damerini
Andrea Bedetti · 2020-07-31
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Sara Costa
Sara Costa received silver recognition in the instrumentalist category for Correspondences.
Rob Challinor · 2021-08
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Costa’s vibrant phrasing, sympathetic musicianship and intelligently balanced Clara and Robert Schumann programme. The reviewer considers it a possible personal release of the year; this is praise, not a formal award. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Maria Clementi
Andrea Bedetti · 2022-09-16
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Peter Burwasser · 46:5 May/June 2023
Burwasser praises Clementi’s colourful and spirited playing and the balance of the programme, recommending it as a general introduction while also encouraging comparison with harpsichord recordings.
Marina Saiki
Nomination announced 13 November 2025
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2026. Listed in the official nominations published on 13 November 2025.
Henry Fogel · Issue 49:2 Nov/Dec 2025
Fogel praises Saiki’s sensitivity, brilliance and convincing juxtaposition of French and Japanese music, together with the excellent recorded sound.
Ingrid Carbone
2020-05
A five-star review of Carbone’s Liszt recording, documented in the artist’s contemporary correspondence. The original review page is no longer available.
Ingrid Carbone received a bronze medal in the instrumentalist category for Les Harmonies de l’Esprit.
Ingrid Carbone
Ingrid Carbone received a bronze medal in the piano instrumentalist category for L’Enchantement Retrouvé.
Glyn Pursglove · 2020-09
Pursglove strongly recommends Carbone’s Schubert, praising her balance of melody and structure, expressive detail and recorded sound. He notes reservations about some slower tempos and individual Moments musicaux, while judging the disc among the finest recent recordings he had heard.
Aart van der Wal · 2020-06
Van der Wal enthusiastically praises Carbone’s fresh, intimate and imaginative Schubert, highlighting her supple phrasing, structural clarity and the rich sonority of the Bechstein piano.
Marta Tacconi
Elisabetta Amistà · 2025
“Questo tratto distintivo fa di questo lavoro musicale un capolavoro”
An outstanding assessment of Tacconi’s technique, finely judged phrasing and close musical affinity with Aquilanti.
Hans-Dieter Grünefeld · May/June 2025 · Interpretation: 6/6 · Sound: 5/6 · Repertoire: 5/6
Grünefeld welcomes the transatlantic dialogue in Aquilanti’s music and praises Tacconi’s technical flexibility in the Sonata, while noting occasional mannerisms in the Suite Americana. Piano News, May/June 2025.
Colin Clarke · Issue 49:1 Sept/Oct 2025
Clarke warmly recommends Tacconi’s Aquilanti recital, praising her committed advocacy and the emotionally satisfying Sonata. He retains a wish for greater depth in parts of the music.
Michele Tozzetti
Colin Clarke · 50:2 Nov/Dec 2026
“Tozzetti’s achievement here is a terraced variety of touch, elucidating the music’s strata magnificently.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand
September 2026, no. 151, p. 14.
Diego Caetano
Diego Caetano’s 20th Century Brazilian Solo Piano Music received a gold medal in the Latin Classical category.
Elisabetta Gesuato
Elisabetta Gesuato’s complete recording of Haydn’s Hoboken XVII received silver recognition in the Classical Piano and Instrumentalist categories.
Gianluigi Daniele
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-09-05
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Eduardo Grumelli · 2025-12-26
Grumelli warmly praises Daniele’s refined touch, technical assurance and sensitivity, finding his interpretations closely attuned to Janacek’s poetic world.
Ingrid Carbone
November 2021
The official index of Musica 331 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 91. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Le Sentiment de la Nature received silver recognition in the New Release and Music of Soul categories.
Nomination announced 16 November 2021
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2022. Listed in the official nominations published on 16 November 2021.
Aart van der Wal · 2021-06
Van der Wal warmly praises Carbone’s Liszt for its imagination, nuance and flexible but structurally convincing interpretation. He also admires the Steinway’s sound and the clarity of the recording.
Giuseppe Federico Senfett
Jerry Dubins · 48:6 July/Aug 2025
“Urgently recommended.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Maria Gabriella Mariani
Colin Clarke · 42:2 Nov/Dec 2018
“Mariani’s performance is outstanding, technically commanding and of utter musical integrity.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Ingrid Carbone
Ingrid Carbone’s complete Leoncavallo piano recording received silver recognition in the From Opera to Piano and Instrumentalist categories.
Nomination announced 15 November 2022
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2023. Listed in the official nominations published on 15 November 2022.
Maria Gabriella Mariani
Andrea Bedetti · 2019-02-27
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Andrei Gavrilov
February 2021
The official review index for Musica 323 documents 5 stars for this recording on page 113. The full review has not been consulted.
Nomination announced 16 November 2021
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2022. Listed in the official nominations published on 16 November 2021.
Remy Franck · 2020-11-30
“No doubt, Gavrilov puts more content, more expression into the Etudes Symphoniques than most other pianists.”
A five-star review praising Gavrilov’s expressive intensity, tonal imagination and clarity in Schumann and Mussorgsky.
Elide Bergamaschi · 2021-06-13
“Un gigante.”
An exceptionally enthusiastic review welcoming Gavrilov’s return to recording and praising the lasting emotional impact and visionary intensity of his Schumann and Mussorgsky interpretations. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Luca Delle Donne
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-01-14
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Boris Petrushansky
Massimo Viazzo · November 2026 · No. 381 · p. 124
Viazzo praises Petrushansky’s interpretative maturity, structural clarity, nuanced sound and poetic imagination. He finds a deeply internalised Schumann interpretation that reveals the music’s contradictions with naturalness, depth and renewed perspective.
Remy Franck · 2026-09-27
“technically superb and impress above all with their deeply insightful yet unconventional approach to Robert Schumann’s music.”
A five-star review praising Petrushansky’s technical command, insight, spontaneity and poetic understanding of Schumann.
Carmelo Giudice
Andrea Bedetti · 2025-06-26
“a profoundly insightful, at times deliciously ruthless interpretation”
Artistic rating: 5/5; technical rating: 4.5/5. Andrea Bedetti praises Carmelo Giudice’s interpretative insight, expressive sensitivity and clarity of tone.
Silvia Belfiore
Remy Franck · 2021-11-08
“The program is played by Silvia Belfiore with a good sense of rhythm as well as melody.”
A five-star recommendation of Silvia Belfiore’s exploration of African piano music, praising her rhythmic understanding and melodic sensitivity.
Gary Higginson · 2022-02
Higginson welcomes an enterprising programme and praises Belfiore’s technical command, confidence and understanding of the African-inspired repertoire.
Pietro Soraci
Salvatore Margarone praises Soraci’s tonal colour, rigorous and musical phrasing, and authoritative interpretation, recommending the recording enthusiastically.
“fa musica allo stato puro, regalando impagabili emozioni all’ascoltatore”
Salvatore Margarone · 29 October 2017
Maria Luisa Macellaro La Franca
Andrea Bedetti · Original press clipping
“Ammaliante.”
Bedetti praises the beauty and effectiveness of Macellaro La Franca’s interpretations on the historical Érard and the recording’s exceptional sound, timbral character and detail. The original clipping is available in the artist’s press archive.
Giuseppe Devastato · Piano
2015
The Pianist Composer received a Gold Medal in 2015, before its Da Vinci edition. The original inlay identifies the album award; Devastato’s official biography also distinguishes it from the separate Gold Medal for Toccata.
Virginia Sánchez Rodríguez · 2018-12
“la habitual maestría y delicadeza del maestro Devastato”
Issue 5, pages 184–187: an exceptionally positive assessment of the album’s refined technique, lyrical delicacy and expressive command, highlighting Devastato’s application of the Neapolitan bel canto tradition to the piano.
Ayano Kamei
Luigi Fertonani · 2025-08-19
“una tecnica strepitosa”
Fertonani praises Ayano Kamei’s remarkable technique and refined taste across Bach, Schumann, Ginastera, Ravel and Kapustin. An exceptionally positive assessment without a numerical rating. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Boris Petrushansky
Letizia Michielon · 2023-11
“Incantatoria la Campanella di Liszt”
A five-star review praising Petrushansky’s colour, phrasing and structural insight in Haydn, Schubert and Prokofiev, with an enchanting Liszt encore. Published on p. 86.
Luigi Fertonani · 2023-07-25
“un cd da collezione”
An exceptionally positive response to Boris Petrushansky’s La Fenice recital, described as a collector’s recording and praised for the high level of the playing. No numerical rating is assigned. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Chiara Alaimo (Piano), Fiona Alaimo (Piano)
Ron Schepper · 2026-04
“the composers couldn’t have asked for better performers”
An exceptionally positive review praising Fiona and Chiara Alaimo’s superb pianism, expressive care and conviction in Goulam and Field. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Léa-Sarah Perez · 31 May 2026
A warmly enthusiastic appraisal of Goulam and Field’s harmonic imagination and expressive range, describing Échos as an essential encounter with two promising compositional voices.
Lucas Irom · 12 June 2026
Selected in Les Clics as a CD événement. Irom praises Fiona and Chiara Alaimo’s understanding of both composers, the programme’s expressive unity and the sensitivity of the piano playing and recording.
Ariane Charton · 10 April 2026
Charton warmly welcomes the album’s dialogue between two distinctive compositional imaginations and the Alaimo sisters’ subtle handling of colour, intimacy and expressive contrasts.
Emanuele Delucchi
David Pellejer · 15 June 2026
A five-star review praising Delucchi’s clarity, expressive concentration and structural command in Busoni’s late piano music, together with the spacious, clean recorded sound.
2026-07
Included in Musica’s five-star recordings of the month for July–August 2026. The magazine’s selection identifies the review on p. 81 of no. 378.
Eunhee Baek
Werner De Smet · 2026-07-30
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Baek’s refined touch, effortless command and deeply moving, coherent journey through Liszt’s piano music. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Giosuè De Vincenti (Piano)
Werner De Smet · 2026-07-27
An exceptionally positive review praising De Vincenti as an ideal advocate for Gullì’s piano music, with refined touch, natural phrasing and expressive conviction. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Edoardo Turbil
Rob Challinor · 2022-07
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Turbil’s thrilling, poetic and rhythmically vital Brahms and his sparkling advocacy of Sinigaglia’s piano music. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Maria Gabriella Mariani (Piano)
David R. Dunsmore · 2021-07
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Mariani’s imaginative, inspirational playing and the conception and execution of Visions, describing it as among the finest piano recordings the reviewer had heard that year. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Alessandro Cammarano · 2021-10-09
Praise for Mariani’s luminous phrasing, finely judged colours and balance of discipline and imagination.
Hsiang Tu (Piano)
2026-05
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Hsiang Tu’s flawless technique, eloquent articulation and exceptional artistry across Ravel’s complete solo piano works. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Ferdinando Zuddio (piano)
2026-04
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Zuddio’s ravishing performances, expressive range and technical mastery in Fumagalli’s operatic fantasies. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Filippo Tenisci
Paola Parri · 12 June 2023
A Pianosolo recommendation praising Tenisci’s technical command, sensitivity, balance and ability to reveal the orchestral and poetic substance of Liszt’s Wagner transcriptions. Parri singles out the clarity of the Spinnerlied and the depth of the Tannhäuser selections.
Letizia Michielon · 2024
A five-star review praising Tenisci’s affinity with Liszt and Wagner, his command of sonic layers and detail, and the psychological depth of his interpretations.
Matteo Monico
2025-12
Alfred Hitchcock: A Portrait in Piano was selected at No. 8 in Textura’s 2025 Top 20 Classical — Instrumental: Solo / Duet / Trio.
Massimo Privitera · 5 November 2025
An enthusiastic review praising Monico’s command of colour, precision and pianistic character in his reimagining of Hitchcock’s film music, bringing orchestral scores into a distinctive solo-piano perspective.
Victoria Terekiev
Nicoletta Sguben · 28 October 2025
A strongly positive review praising Terekiev’s tenderness, subtle colour and insightful restraint, recommending the recording both to young pianists and to listeners discovering these Russian miniatures.
Alessandro Rigolli · 21 December 2025
Selected among Alessandro Rigolli’s ten best albums of 2025. His commentary praises Terekiev’s supple, brilliant expression and the immediate appeal of this programme of Russian piano miniatures.
2025-12
Matryoshka was selected at No. 13 in Textura’s 2025 Top 20 Classical — Instrumental: Solo / Duet / Trio.
Hyewon Chang
Maureen Buja · 2026-03-19
“This recording is a joy to hear.”
The reviewer praises the musical journey through Schubert’s early, mature and final sonatas. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Victoria Terekiev (Piano)
Alfredo Di Pietro · 2019-05
“un pianismo istintivo”
An exceptionally enthusiastic assessment of Roberto Issoglio’s energy, expressive freedom, rhythmic vitality and tonal colours in Vladigerov’s piano music. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Chiara Bertoglio (Piano)
Lorenzo Tozzi · May 2019
A four-star review by Lorenzo Tozzi, now available as a complete text in the artist’s official archive. It praises Bertoglio’s clear, expressive and rhythmically alive playing, her measured use of the piano in Bach and her handling of Busoni’s Goldberg transcription.
Andrea Bedetti · 2019-05
“una delle registrazioni più stimolanti e coinvolgenti”
A five-star review of Bach & Italy, Vol. 1, praising its stimulating and absorbing interpretation. The review and rating are reproduced in the artist’s press archive.
Pietro Soraci
Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand
October 2026, no. 152, p. 6.
Danilo Mascetti
Alvise De Piero
Maria Agnese Mason
Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand
“L’interprétation de ces pièces est tout simplement magnifique.”
Saint-Gerand praises Mason’s contrasting programme of Respighi, Sgambati and Martucci and describes the performances as magnificent. No numerical rating is assigned.
Maria Gabriella Mariani
Cesare Guzzardella · 30 October 2025
Guzzardella praises Mariani’s balance of formal discipline and emotional intensity, her spontaneous and fresh approach, and the recording’s care and clarity.
Pietro Beltrani
Robert Nemecek · Piano News 6/2025, November/December · Interpretation: 5/6 · Sound: 5/6 · Repertoire: 6/6
Nemecek praises Beltrani’s beautiful tone, sensitivity, finely judged rubato and phrasing, as well as the power of his virtuoso playing. He finds the Notturno exceptionally atmospheric and welcomes the care given to Respighi’s early works. Piano News 6/2025, November/December.
Maurizio Paciariello
Christopher Brodersen · Issue 49:5 May/June 2026
Brodersen recommends Paciariello’s thoughtful Beethoven interpretations, praising his technical command and the warm, balanced sound of the Walter-copy fortepiano. His favourable judgment explicitly differs from an earlier review of the set.
Giulia Contaldo
Henry Fogel · Issue 49:2 Nov/Dec 2025
Fogel welcomes Contaldo’s recital as a very successful debut, praising its range and expressive commitment. His reservation about tonal depth in the largest Ravel climaxes is explicitly described as minor.
Stefania Redaelli
Henry Fogel · Issue 49:2 Nov/Dec 2025
Fogel offers a very warm recommendation, praising Redaelli’s fluent and sensitive playing, the discoveries in the programme and the natural recorded sound.
Christopher Howell
James Harrington · May/June 2024
Harrington warmly praises Howell’s knowledgeable, characterful playing, the detailed booklet essay and the recorded sound, and looks forward to the next volume.
Pietro Soraci
2023-11 · 5/5
Five stars, confirmed by the official review index for Musica 351, November 2023, page 74. The entry identifies Pietro Soraci’s French Suites and French Overture. The full review text has not been recovered.
Emanuele Delucchi
James Harrington · 2024-03
Harrington enthusiastically recommends Delucchi’s performance, praising its pianism, recorded sound and varied programme, as well as the informative accompanying essay.
Chiara Bertoglio
April 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 345, p. 73. The official review index identifies Chiara Bertoglio in Martucci’s piano transcriptions of Bach’s Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-3 and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
James Harrington · 2023-09
Harrington strongly recommends Bertoglio’s recording to pianists and listeners interested in hearing Bach in a new instrumental light. He praises the playing, recording and substantial documentation, while noting that the transcriptions will not suit Baroque purists. Fanfare 47:1, September/October 2023.
Luca Ballerini
2022-03
The recording is listed in the official Japanese distributor’s Record Geijutsu overseas-review recommendations, March 2022. The complete review and author have not been recovered.
Alessandro Riccardi
March 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 344, p. 101. The official review index identifies Alessandro Riccardi in Liszt’s Italian pilgrimage, Petrarch sonnets, Dante Sonata, Le triomphe funèbre du Tasse and the Dante sonnet transcription and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
5/5
Five-star review of Pèlerinage en Italie, confirmed by Alessandro Riccardi’s official biography. The original issue and reviewer have not been recovered.
Tania Cardillo
Jean-Marc Warszawski · 2022-11-26
Warszawski praises Moscardi’s assured harmonic craft, expressive imagination and pianistic writing, and regards Cardillo as a particularly well-matched interpreter.
Adamo Angeletti
May 2022
The official index of Musica 336 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 77. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Letizia Michielon
The concert presenter reproduces Michielon’s enthusiastic assessment of Angeletti’s Bartók, highlighting clarity, colour and the strength of the Sonata and Bagatelles. The original issue and complete review have not yet been recovered.
Marios Panteliadis
Letizia Michielon · 2022-09 · 4/5
The pianist’s official press archive documents a four-star review of his Beethoven album by Letizia Michielon, posted on 2 September 2022. The original magazine scan is linked there but was not accessible during this check.
Christopher Howell
John France · 2021-09
France warmly recommends Howell’s complete Debussy cycle, praising the range of colour and mood, the playing’s virtuosity, the recorded sound and the booklet’s refreshing approach to listening.
Axel Trolese
June 2021
The official index of Musica 327 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 68. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Marco del Vaglio · 2021-04-24
Del Vaglio praises Trolese’s interpretative maturity, tonal refinement and attention to detail throughout the Spanish programme.
Giancarlo Simonacci
Dino Villatico · 2021-03-29
Villatico praises Simonacci’s affinity with Mompou and the variety of touch and phrasing through which he brings the miniature forms to life.
Paola Parri · 2021-05-19
Parri warmly recommends Simonacci’s interpretation, praising its clear sound, subtle dynamic shading and the affinity between the pianist’s touch and Mompou’s concentrated musical world.
Gian Paolo Minardi · 2021-02
The review reproduced in Simonacci’s official archive praises the pianist’s understanding of Mompou’s inward language and the sensitivity of his touch. The scan identifies February 2021; the exact day has not been recovered.
Massimo Viazzo · 2021-09 · 5/5
The index of Musica 329 records a five-star review of Simonacci’s Mompou album on page 108. The author is identified in the pianist’s official press archive; the full review was not available for transcription.
Gilda Buttà, Victoria Terekiev
Paola Parri · 2021-02-05
Parri recommends the recording, praising the pianists’ shared musical understanding, their precise coordination and the orchestral fullness and changing colours of their four-hand playing.
2021-03 · Eccezionale
Issue 180 features Postcards from Italy with the magazine’s Eccezionale recommendation. The review is documented by a scan supplied to the label.
2021-11 · 5/5
The November 2021 issue awards five stars to Postcards from Italy. The review praises the pianists’ sensitivity, clear musical ideas and expressive strength, while noting the inevitable differences between the piano transcriptions and the orchestral originals.
Fabiano Casanova
Remy Franck · 2020-09-20 · 5/5
Franck recognises Casanova’s sensitivity and committed playing but also criticises the articulation, limited transparency and bright, metallic piano sound. The published page nevertheless displays five musical-note symbols for this recording; both the rating and the reservations are retained here.
Elisa Viscarelli, Giuseppe Rossi
Paola Parri · 2020-09-18
Parri warmly praises Rossi’s command of Beethoven’s contrapuntal writing, his clear, unforced delivery and the luminous partnership with Elisa Viscarelli in the piano-duet Great Fugue.
Agnese Toniutti
Paolo Carradori · 2020-07-02
An enthusiastic review and interview praises Toniutti’s depth, sensitivity and ability to illuminate Cardini’s suspended musical world and the resonance of the historic Steinway.
Renzo Cresti · 2020-07-25
Cresti strongly praises Toniutti’s sensitivity to slow transformations, subtle colour, natural imagery and ritual gesture, describing her collaboration with Cardini as an exemplary way of working.
Lazar Berman
2020-10 · 5/5
The official index awards five stars to Lazar Berman’s Liszt, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff recording, p. 100, issue 320, October 2020. Full review and reviewer not recovered.
Giacomo Ronchini
Paola Parri · 2021-02-26
Parri warmly praises Ronchini’s vigorous, luminous playing and the expressive contrasts of his Second Sonata, finding a persuasive connection with the rhythmic energy and singing character of his Piazzolla transcriptions.
Roberto Russo
Riccardo Risaliti · 2020-05 · 5/5
Included among Musica’s five-star discs of May 2020, issue 316, with the review on p. 96. The official award page shows the exact album cover; Roberto Russo’s website identifies Riccardo Risaliti as the reviewer. Full review text not recovered.
Leonora Armellini, Mattia Ometto
February 2019
Musica’s official index records a 4/5 review in issue 303, page 74. The full review has not been consulted.
Duo Monti-Bianco
July 2021
The official index of Musica 328 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 71. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Corrado Greco, Massimiliano Baggio
December 2021
The official index of Musica 332 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 95. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
Massimiliano Motterle, Fabiano Casanova
Luigi Fertonani · 2022-11-08
Strong praise for Massimiliano Motterle and Fabiano Casanova’s Beethoven/Liszt Ninth Symphony, welcoming the recording as a joy to hear and admiring the care taken over its two Steinway instruments. Published in the print edition; no numerical rating is assigned.
2023-04 · 5/5
Five stars are documented in the official review index for issue 345, April 2023, page 73. The complete review and its author have not yet been recovered.
Federica Righini & Riccardo Zadra
Andrea Bedetti · 2026-07-04
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand
September 2026, no. 151, p. 5.
Duo Sollini – Barbatano
The official index of Musica 334, March 2022, documents a five-star rating on page 103. The full review has not been consulted.
Andrea Bedetti · 2022-06-09
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Daniel Gardiole, Mai Lan Morini
Elisabetta Amistà · 2025
“un lavoro di precisione stilistica tra i più meritevoli e degni di attenzione degli ultimi tempi”
An outstanding assessment of the pianists’ stylistic precision, phrasing and sensitivity to French repertoire.
Coro dell’Almo Collegio Borromeo di Pavia, Marco Berrini, Marco Sollini, Salvatore Barbatano
June 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 347, p. 100. The official review index identifies Marco Sollini, Salvatore Barbatano and the Collegio Borromeo choir directed by Marco Berrini in Liszt’s Concerto Pathétique and Dante Symphony and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Nomination announced 15 November 2023
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2024. Listed in the official nominations published on 15 November 2023.
Andrea Bedetti · 2023-02-01
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Giuseppina La Face · 2023-09-03
“Un cd trascinante, prezioso”
Lettura lodata per sicurezza tecnica, cantabilità e apporto corale.
Fabio Brisighelli · 2023-03
“una straordinaria incisione”
An exceptionally enthusiastic review of Sollini and Barbatano’s Liszt, praising their command, expressive unity and richly coloured piano sound. The article recommends the disc unreservedly. Published on p. 36; the surviving clipping does not show the exact publication day. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Fabiano Casanova, Sara Costa
April 2020
The official review index of Musica, issue 315, lists this recording on page 95, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Sara Costa and Fabiano Casanova received silver recognition for Russian Music for Piano 4 Hands, listed in the Album, Instrumentalist and Duo categories.
Milano Piano Duo · Luca Ciammarughi · Stefano Ligoratti
Luca Chierici · June 2018
Four-star review in issue 229, p. 62, praising Milano Piano Duo’s natural musical flow and understanding of the four-hand tradition. Verified from the original magazine clipping.
June 2018
Musica’s official index records 4/5 in issue 297, page 110. The full review has not been consulted.
Alfredo Di Pietro · June 2018
Praised for stylistic command, sensitivity, clarity and sustained expressive tension. No numerical rating was assigned.
Gianluca Blasio & Lisa Redorici
Lorenzo Pone · 19 March 2026
Pone warmly praises Blasio and Redorici for their unified ensemble playing, nuanced phrasing and tonal refinement, together with the clarity and quality of the recording.
Giovanni De Cecco
Piero Rattalino · October 2018
Musica’s October 2018 index confirms 4/5, issue 300, page 110. Piero Rattalino’s favourable excerpt was already documented on De Cecco’s website; the full review has not been consulted.
Ilaria Monticelli
December 2022
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 342, December 2022-January 2023, p. 85. The official review index identifies Ilaria Monticelli in Di voci affettuose, Neapolitan ricercars and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Fernando De Luca
Christophe Steyne · 2026-01-19
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 9/10. Not converted into stars.
Fernando De Luca
Luigi Fertonani · 2025-09-30
Strong praise for Fernando De Luca’s Royer recording, described as a splendid edition, with particular admiration for his technique and the creative power of the Marche des Scythes. Published in the print edition; no numerical rating is assigned.
Christophe Steyne · 2026-05-01
“Avouons que nous avons été conquis par cette nouvelle parution”
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 9.5/10. Not converted into stars.
Bertil van Boer · 49:3 Jan/Feb 2026
“Highly recommended.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Christophe Steyne · 2026-05-01 · 9.5/10
Steyne strongly praises De Luca’s ornamentation, poetic sensitivity and considered exploration of the score. Interpretation: 9.5/10; sound: 9/10. He notes that listeners seeking more impetuous tempos may prefer other interpretations.
Giovanni De Cecco
November 2017
Musica’s official index records 4/5 in issue 291, page 104. The full review has not been consulted.
Andrea Bedetti · 2017-09-15
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Andrea Chezzi
Andrea Chezzi’s ÆMILIA was nominated in the Tasteninstrumente II category of the German Record Critics’ Award longlist 2/2026.
Christophe Steyne · 25 March 2026
Steyne finds Chezzi’s vigorous, experienced phrasing persuasive in this anthology of Renaissance keyboard styles. The closely recorded historic virginal creates an intimate encounter with the instrument.
Giovanni De Cecco (Clavichord)
Lorenzo Tozzi · 2019-03
A five-star review praising De Cecco’s C.P.E. Bach concertos and the expressive possibilities of the clavichord. Published in no. 304, p. 46.
Marco Cortinovis, Simone Vebber
February 2020
The official review index of Musica, issue 313, lists this recording on page 120, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Federico Terzi
John L. Speller · December 2025
Speller recommends this fascinating comparison of Bach and Walther, praising Terzi’s registration, virtuosity and the Felsberg organ. He also identifies errors in the printed track order and composer attributions. The Diapason, December 2025, pp. 8-9.
Matteo Bonfiglioli, Montserrat Torrent
Michel Roubinet · 6 August 2026
“Émerveillement, vraiment, instrumental et musical.”
An exceptionally enthusiastic assessment of Torrent and Bonfiglioli’s expressive dialogue, vitality and fusion of sound, praising the warmth and luminous presence of the recorded organs. No numerical rating is assigned.
Eugenio Maria Fagiani
Christophe Steyne · 2023-10-14
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 9/10. Not converted into stars.
Andrea Albertin
Christophe Steyne · 2024-09-20
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 9/10. Not converted into stars.
Andrea Bedetti · 2023-10-26 · 4.5/5
Artistic assessment: 4.5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Ivana Valotti
Nomination announced 15 November 2023
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2024. Listed in the official nominations published on 15 November 2023.
Andrea Bedetti · 2023-09-18
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
James A. Altena · 47:5 May/June 2024
“this disc is strongly recommended.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Paolo Bottini
Nomination announced 14 November 2024
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2025. Listed in the official nominations published on 14 November 2024.
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-03-08
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Michael Overbury · 2024-09
Overbury welcomes the historically appropriate organs and recorded sound, praising Bottini’s sensitivity, panache and evident enjoyment.
Luca Sartore
Christophe Steyne · 2025-11-08
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 9/10. Not converted into stars.
Wolfgang Kogert (Organ)
Ennio Cominetti · 2023-11
“un proprio linguaggio e una propria personalità”
A five-star review recognising Herndler’s distinctive compositional voice and Wolfgang Kogert’s survey of ten years of organ music. Published on p. 88.
Giuliana Maccaroni (Organ), Martino Pòrcile (Organ)
March 2020
The official review index of Musica, issue 314, lists this recording on page 109, with a rating of 5/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
2021-03
Five stars and Editor’s Choice in the March 2021 issue, confirmed by the magazine’s publisher.
Manuel Tomadin
Jérôme Angouillant
September 2026, no. 151, p. 17.
Christian Tarabbia
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-06-29
Artistic and sound assessments: 5/5. Andrea Bedetti’s personal Disc of the Month for June 2024.
Matteo Pasqualini
James A. Altena · 49:3, January/February 2026
Altena warmly recommends Pasqualini’s commanding and idiomatic performances, praising his technique and the recorded sound. His minor reservations concern the choice of a modern Italian organ and occasional registration. Issue 49:3, January/February 2026.
Luca Sartore
James A. Altena · 2024-03
Altena warmly recommends Sartore’s performances on two historic Italian organs, welcoming Morandi’s tuneful music and the character of the instruments.
Enrico Viccardi
Giuseppe Clericetti · 2022-12
Clericetti praises Viccardi’s interpretative intelligence, keyboard mastery and handling of the restored historical organ in Ferrara. He highlights the Rossi, Kerll and Muffat performances and commends the performer’s programme notes. Bollettino ATO 39, December 2022, pp. 51-52.
Enrico Viccardi
Giuseppe Clericetti · 2022-06
The Associazione Ticinese degli Organisti’s June 2022 bulletin, no. 38, p. 35, warmly praises Viccardi’s inspired interpretation, registration and close rapport with the Vatican’s Giani organ, alongside Federico Savio’s clear recording.
Simone Vebber
July 2021
The official index of Musica 328 records paired ratings of 4 and 5 for this recording on page 120. The full review has not been consulted, so the individual assessment categories and critical reasoning are not inferred.
Roy Westbrook · 2021-11
Westbrook enthusiastically praises Vebber’s technique and style, the Bergamo organ’s colour and the recording’s clarity and dynamic range. He recommends the disc as an introduction to Saint-Saëns’s organ music.
Eugenio Maria Fagiani
2021-11 · 5/5
The magazine’s November 2021 review index documents a five-star rating for The Organ in the Age of Beethoven, reviewed on page 115. The complete review and its author have not been recovered.
Piergiovanni Domenighini
2021-03 · 5/5
The magazine confirmed a five-star review of aboutCAGE Vol. 5 in its March 2021 issue in correspondence with the label. The complete review and reviewer’s name have not been recovered.
Angelo Marchese
June 2019
The official review index of Musica, issue 307, lists this recording on page 86, with a rating of 5/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Andrea Corongiu
June 2020
The official review index of Musica, issue 317, lists this recording on page 84, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Federica Canta
June 2023
Rated 5 out of five in Musica, issue 347, p. 102. The official review index identifies Federica Canta in Books 1-11 of Mertz’s Bardenklänge, Op. 13 and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Alessandro Giunta
Luigi Fertonani · 2025-06-17
Strong praise for Alessandro Giunta’s virtuosity, singling out a spectacular performance of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Capriccio diabolico within a programme spanning Latin America and Spain. Published in the print edition; no numerical rating is assigned.
Colin Clarke · Issue 49:2 Nov/Dec 2025
Clarke recommends Giunta’s focused recital, praising its individuality, lyricism and virtuosity, and the guitarist’s command of the instrument.
Gregorio Fracchia
Luigi Fertonani · 2025-09-02
Strong praise for Gregorio Fracchia’s Nodi quasi di stelle, especially the beautiful interpretation of Alirio Díaz’s Neapolitan-song arrangements and the contrasting character of his own pieces. Published in the print edition; no numerical rating is assigned.
Thanos Mitsalas
Colin Clarke · 48:6 July/Aug 2025
“Very strongly recommended.”
An outstanding critical recommendation; no numerical rating was assigned.
Jesús Saiz Huedo · 2025-06
Saiz Huedo warmly praises the programme, Mitsalas’s tone and interpretation, and the convincing contrasts between its Latin American composers. The review is reproduced on the artist’s official website.
Al Kunze · 2025-03
Kunze enthusiastically recommends Mitsalas’s virtuosity and musical imagination, particularly in the two Assad premieres, and praises the recorded sound. The review is reproduced on the artist’s official website.
Jim McCutcheon · 2025-03
McCutcheon praises the performances’ expressive range, technical assurance and recording quality, while wishing for longer pauses between tracks. March/April 2025; reproduced on the artist’s official website.
Carlo Fierens
Roberto Brusotti · n. 380, ottobre 2026, p. 88
“la qualità della migliore produzione di Coste”
Cinque stelle esplicite nella pagina cartacea fornita dall’utente.
Alberto Mesirca
Andrea Bedetti · 2020-05-12
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
2020-07 · 5/5
The official index awards five stars to Free Guitar on Earth, p. 111, issue 318, July-August 2020. The full review and reviewer have not been recovered.
Angelo Gillo
Angelo Gillo received the 2024 Chitarra d’Oro for Best Solo Guitar Recording for his complete Asencio programme.
Marco Riboni · July 2024
Riboni gives a highly enthusiastic assessment of Gillo’s Asencio recording, praising its virtuoso brilliance, expressive empathy and musical depth. Published in issue 207, pages 66-67.
Giuseppe Chiaramonte
March 2018
Musica’s official index records 4/5 in issue 294, page 119. The full review has not been consulted.
Alfredo Di Pietro praises Chiaramonte’s warm tone, expressive depth and meticulous phrasing, describing a remarkably coherent journey across the guitar repertoire.
“questo “Soul of Strings” risplende di luce propria come una gemma”
Alfredo Di Pietro · August 2019
Giulio Cecchi
Luigi Fertonani · 2 June 2026 · Dischi Classica, page 42
“pregevolissime ed eseguite in modo impeccabile”
Fertonani praises Cecchi’s impeccable performances of Bream’s transcriptions, their faithfulness and interpretative depth. A print review, without a numerical rating.
William Yeoman · May 2026 · page 107
“Cecchi proves himself, as Bream did, a true artist”
The published excerpt praises Cecchi’s artistic sensitivity and his understanding of Bream’s orchestral approach to the guitar. No numerical rating is claimed.
Federica Canta
Roberto Brusotti · 2025-06
A five-star review praising Canta’s assured virtuosity, poetic cantabile and sensitive use of historical strings in Mertz’s Verdi paraphrases. Published in no. 367, pp. 102–103.
Marco Riboni · 2025-04
“esemplare disinvoltura e una grande eleganza di fraseggio”
A five-star review praising Federica Canta’s ease, elegant phrasing and vivid rendering of Mertz’s Verdi transcriptions. Amadeus, April 2025, p. 74.
Luigi Fertonani · 2025-03-25
“un’interprete affascinante e di straordinaria bravura”
Fertonani gives an exceptionally positive assessment of Federica Canta’s playing in Mertz’s Verdi transcriptions, praising both her expressive appeal and extraordinary skill. No numerical rating is assigned. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Simone Pansolin (Baroque Guitar)
Roberto Brusotti · 2025-05
“Non ci rimane che applaudire.”
A five-star review praising the musical partnership between Pansolin and his historical guitar, with agile phrasing, delicacy and brilliance. Musica, no. 366, May 2025, p. 112.
Marco Riboni · 2025-04
“Veramente fantasiosa e affascinante la sua esecuzione”
A five-star review praising Pansolin’s imagination, flexible phrasing and expressive command of the Baroque guitar. Amadeus, April 2025, p. 74.
Bettina Winkler · 2024-11-03
SWR presented the Roncalli album on 3 November 2024. Pansolin’s official biography reproduces Bettina Winkler’s praise for the sonatas’ sparkling, jewel-like character. The former SWR episode page is no longer available.
Ken Meltzer · 2025-05
Meltzer enthusiastically praises the elegance of Pansolin’s performances and the shimmering sound of the replica Baroque guitar. May/June 2025. This review was already present on the product page.
Marco Del Greco
Francesco Biraghi · 2023-01
“disco curato, interessante, consapevole, ma soprattutto bellissimo dal punto di vista musicale”
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Del Greco’s historically informed programme, illuminating booklet and musical beauty. Published in issue 201. No numerical star rating is assigned.
CHITARRA TRIO
Marco Riboni · 2024
A five-star review praising Rebay’s original works for three guitars and ChitarraTrio’s precise intonation, close ensemble and shared expressive understanding.
Francesco Biraghi · October 2024
Biraghi warmly recommends Chitarra Trio’s Rebay recording, praising the ensemble playing, rhythmic vitality and clear, varied colours produced with six different guitars. Published in issue 208, pages 57-58.
Marco Longhi, Piergiacomo Buso
Marco Riboni · 2025
A five-star review praising Gangi’s stylistically varied guitar-duo works and the outstanding, closely coordinated performances by Piergiacomo Buso and Marco Longhi.
Antonino Ielo
Jim McCutcheon · November/December 2025, pp. 22-23
McCutcheon praises Ielo’s expressive playing, balanced sound, clear articulation and clean ornaments. He welcomes the melodic appeal of Boutros’s approachable music and the guitarist’s confident handling of its technical challenges. November/December 2025, pp. 22-23.
Giulia Ballaré
Jesús Saiz Huedo · 2025-12-20
The review presents Ballaré’s complete Villa-Lobos recording under the strongly favourable title “una magnífica versión”. The complete article is available to subscribers; no numerical rating is stated in the public extract.
Antoine Guerrero
Sara Guerrero Aguado · 2025-06-17 · Melómano de Oro
Awarded Melómano de Oro. Guerrero Aguado praises the guitarist’s artistry, tonal variety and serene virtuosity, finding remarkable musical maturity in this twentieth-century programme.
Alessandro Dominguez
5/5
A five-star review of Exordium is reported in Alessandro Dominguez’s official concert biography for Corde d’Autunno at Centro Asteria, 15 November 2025. The issue date and reviewer are not specified in that source.
Paolo Rigano
Massimo Crispi · 2026-01-28
Crispi warmly recommends Rigano’s anthology, praising its variety of colours, aristocratic elegance and expressive balance between melancholy and dance.
Emma Baiguera
2024-07-08 · CD of the Week
The recording was selected as CD of the Week and a new release feature for 8-14 July 2024, as confirmed by the station’s editor.
Ozan Sarıtepe
Aart van der Wal · October 2023
An enthusiastic review of Leyenda, praising Sarıtepe’s atmospheric, passionate, lyrical and virtuosic playing, his subtle colours and detailed recording. Van der Wal finds that the interpretation fully honours the poetic elegance of Barrios’s music.
Şefik Kahramankaptan · 16 October 2023
A strongly positive review and artist profile praising Sarıtepe’s high technical command, clean playing and understanding of Barrios’s guitar writing. The article also cites, separately, Aart van der Wal’s favourable OpusKlassiek review.
Ken Meltzer · September/October 2024
A strong recommendation for Sarıtepe’s Barrios recital, praising beautiful tone, clear articulation, natural rubato and affectionate, well-shaped interpretations.
Alfonso Baschiera
Amadeus d’oro
Modernismo Italiano received an Amadeus d’oro, as documented in Da Vinci Publishing’s public announcement. The original review text, reviewer and issue have not yet been recovered.
Federica Canta
September 2022
The official index of Musica 339 documents a 4/5 rating for this recording on page 115. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
2021-12
The December 2021 issue warmly praises Canta’s expressive phrasing, rhythmic vitality and tonal variety, alongside the natural recorded sound. The review is documented in the reproduced magazine issue; its author has not yet been identified.
Thanos Mitsalas
Al Kunze · 2022
In an excerpt reproduced in the guitarist’s official archive, Kunze strongly recommends the album, praising Mitsalas’s virtuosity, the new works and the recorded sound. He also notes some awkwardness in the English booklet. Soundboard, volume 48, no. 1.
Edoardo Pieri
Andrea Aguzzi · 2021-12-09
Aguzzi praises Pieri’s interpretation of Ficco’s varied musical language, the project’s coherence and the recording’s excellent sound. The review considers the relationship between the composer’s inner world and the performer’s independent reading.
Michel Zebracki
Nicolas Lestoquoy · 2021-09 / 2021-11
In issue 97, Lestoquoy praises the spontaneous lyricism, expressive playing and warm, clear sound of Zebracki’s fifteen nocturnes.
Andrea Ferrario
Carlo de Nonno · 2020-12
In issue 12/2020, pages 13-14, de Nonno praises Ferrario’s adventurous programme, intellectual rigour, phrasing and tonal sensitivity. His account singles out the mature handling of Petrassi’s Nunc and the musical conviction running through the recital.
Ermanno Brignolo · 5/5
The artist’s institutional biography documents a five-star Seicorde review by Ermanno Brignolo, praising Ferrario’s musicality and command in a demanding programme. The original issue and complete review have not been recovered.
Leonardo De Marchi
2021-05 · 5/5
The magazine’s official award graphic, supplied to the label, documents five stars for Livio Torresan’s Impressions, performed by Leonardo De Marchi, in the May 2021 issue. The complete review has not been recovered.
Luigi Attademo
April 2021
The official review index for Musica 325 documents 4 stars for this recording on page 107. The full review has not been consulted.
Blair Jackson · 2021-02-02
Jackson selected Absconditus among his ten favourite albums of 2020, praising the thoughtful programme, the variety and quality of Attademo’s playing, and the recording. This is the editor’s personal selection, rather than a formal best-album award.
Alfonso Baschiera
February 2021
The official review index for Musica 323 documents 4 stars for this recording on page 70. The full review has not been consulted.
Francesco Biraghi · 2021-01
An enthusiastic recommendation of Baschiera’s elegant, controlled and stylistically sensitive playing and his exploration of neglected Central European guitar repertoire. Biraghi also discusses the contrasting quality of individual works, including reservations about Hartig’s recorder-and-guitar pieces. Issue 193, pp. 65-66; verified against the complete review supplied to the label.
Alessandro Deiana
Pascal Proust · 2021-12
Proust warmly recommends Deiana’s portrait of Mertz, praising the breadth of the programme and the vivid musical tribute realised on a historical Viennese-style guitar. Issue 98, December 2021-February 2022, p. 95.
Alessandra Ziveri
Andrea Bedetti · 2022-04-12
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Giuliano Marco Mattioli
Five-star review in the print edition of Musica.
Andrea Bedetti · 2023-06-16
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Alessandra Ziveri
Xavier Rivera · 2020-01-21
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 9/10. Not converted into stars.
Alexander Boldachev
Nomination announced 14 November 2024
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2025. Listed in the official nominations published on 14 November 2024.
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-10-24
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Fernando Marín
March 2019
Magia consoni et dissoni appears with the Excepcional Scherzo distinction in issue 349, March 2019. The distinction is documented in the indexed official issue; the complete review text has not been consulted.
Chiara Bertoglio
Christophe Steyne · 2026-01-13
Highly rated in the publication’s original scale: 9/10. Not converted into stars.
Shinnosuke Nagai · 2025-06-15 · Recommended
Selected as a Recommended recording in the June 2025 keyboard reviews. Nagai welcomes Bertoglio’s precise and colourful advocacy of Fiorentino’s Bach transcriptions.
Valerio Losito
Remy Franck · 2020-08-31
“All this is wonderfully intense and profound in Valerio Losito’s performance”
A five-star review praising Valerio Losito’s intense and profound interpretation of Elvira Muratore’s Alias, Amor.
Redazione Italia · 2020-07-26
An exceptionally enthusiastic appraisal of Muratore’s five-part cycle and Losito’s performance, praising the music’s narrative coherence, expressive intensity and the performer’s command of instrumental colour and dramatic gesture.
Ksenia Milas
Nomination announced 15 November 2022
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2023. Listed in the official nominations published on 15 November 2022.
Uwe Krusch · 2021-12-30
“Technically mature performance is only a prerequisite, not the goal.”
Pizzicato Supersonic distinction, separate from a numerical rating.
Andrea Bedetti · 2022-02-14
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
5/5
The artist’s professional biography explicitly documents a five-star Musica review for this Paganini recording. The issue, reviewer and complete text have not yet been recovered.
5/5
The artist’s professional biography explicitly documents a five-star Amadeus review for this Paganini recording. The issue, reviewer and complete text have not yet been recovered.
Stefano Zanchetta (Violin)
2026-03
Included in Musica’s five-star recordings of the month for March 2026. The magazine’s selection identifies the review on p. 117 of no. 374.
Yulia Berinskaya
Cesare Guzzardella · 5 July 2026
An enthusiastic review praising Berinskaya’s stylistic discipline, expressive maturity, incisive articulation and noble violin sound in Bach’s complete solo sonatas and partitas.
Andrea Bedetti · 2026-05-15
An emphatic recommendation of Yulia Berinskaya’s Bach, highlighting its interpretative depth and lasting musical relevance.
Debora Rosti
Luigi Fertonani · 2020-03-24
Strong praise for Debora Rosti’s virtuosity in a surprising contemporary piccolo programme, introduced under a headline celebrating an exceptional talent. Published in the print edition; no numerical rating is assigned.
José Daniel Cirigliano
Andrea Bedetti · 2022-12-16
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 4.5/5. Read Andrea Bedetti’s review of the recording.
Maria De Martini (Recorders)
Luigi Fertonani · 2019-04-30
“da ascoltare letteralmente a bocca aperta”
An exceptionally enthusiastic response to Maria De Martini’s virtuosity and imaginative recorder arrangements of Telemann. Published in the newspaper’s classical record column. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Fausto Saredi (Bass Clarinet), Stefania Orselli (Piano), Lycia Viganò and Ambra Cusanna (Violins), Simone Libralon (Viola), Nadia Bianchi (Cello), Kastriot Mersini (Double-bass), Davide Vendramin (Accordion), Sergio Fabian Lavia (Guitar), Stefano Bardella and Matteo Manzoni (Marimbas)
September 2020
The official review index for Musica 319 documents 4 stars for this recording on page 106. The full review has not been consulted.
Spencer Prewitt · 2021-09
“This album belongs in the library of every clarinetist.”
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Saredi’s flawless technique, tonal variety and artistry, together with the outstanding contributions of his chamber partners. Published on pp. 75–76. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Andrea Mogavero
Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand
“des interprétations de la plus remarquable qualité”
Saint-Gerand praises Mogavero’s ease in meeting the transcription’s challenges and the exceptional quality of his interpretations, welcoming the opportunity to hear Bach’s suites in a vivid and inspired flute performance. No numerical rating is assigned.
Bellucci Giovanni, Daniele Callegari, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai
Andrea Bedetti · 2025-07-06
“un miracolo di liquidità, di cristallinità timbrica”
Artistic assessment: 5/5; technical assessment: 3.5/5. Praise for Bellucci’s timbral imagination and interpretative command of Busoni.
Henry Fogel · 49:2, November/December 2025
Fogel praises Bellucci’s polished technique, clarity, flair and musical characterisation, with strong support from Callegari and the RAI orchestra. Despite reservations about the shape of Indianische Fantasie, he finds the recording rewarding and one to revisit. Issue 49:2, November/December 2025.
Giovanni Albini
Luigi Fertonani · 2022-05-03
A strong recommendation of Giovanni Albini’s contemporary ukulele anthology, described as an unmissable collection and valued for its range of instruments, composers and colours. Published in the print edition; no numerical rating is assigned.
Mike Flaherty · 2022-03
Issue 29, March 2022. Flaherty welcomes the album’s original repertoire and instrumental variety, finding it a demanding but rewarding exploration of the ukulele’s possibilities.
Massimo Marchese, Ugo Nastrucci
June 2019
Musica’s official index records a 4/5 review in issue 307, page 112. The full review has not been consulted.
Laura La Vecchia
Marco Riboni · 5/5
The artist’s official website documents a five-star Amadeus review by Marco Riboni, praising La Vecchia’s sensitive playing and the beauty of her theorbo sound.
Alessia Scilipoti
Riccardo De Stefano · 16 December 2025
A strongly positive review praising Scilipoti’s technical command, unusual interpretative sensitivity and ability to connect breath, voice and extended flute techniques in a coherent musical narrative.
Smoking Area · 5 November 2025
An enthusiastic response to Scilipoti’s exploration of breath, voice and contemporary flute technique, praising the recording’s expressive force and personal musical identity.
Roberto Pasquini
2024-04 · Coup de coeur
The April 2024 catalogue marks this recording as a Coup de coeur, an editorial selection by the distributor.
Natalia Sikorska, Svitlana Shabaltina
May 2025
Awarded four stars in Musica, issue 366, May 2025, p. 119. The official review index identifies The Art of Harpsichord Duets, Svitlana Shabaltina and Natalia Sikorska, together with the rating.
Roberto Loreggian
Mariano Acero Ruilópez · 7 June 2025
A strongly positive review praising Loreggian’s mature, reflective interpretation, refined technique, careful ornamentation and excellent sound. The reviewer considers it among his finest recordings, while noting that some tempos may be excessively moderate.
Jerry Dubins · 2025-07
Dubins recommends Loreggian’s Handel without hesitation, praising his technical command. He retains subjective reservations about the extent of embellishment and the instrument’s tone, and would not choose it as his only version.
Francesca Lanfranco
2023-04 · 5/5
The official index of issue 345 documents five stars for Lanfranco’s Six Partitas, page 72. The complete review and its author have not yet been recovered.
Sergio Armaroli
The publicly available assessment warmly recommends Armaroli’s project for listening and study by percussionists and other contemporary musicians. The complete review is available to subscribers.
2024-06 · Coup de coeur
The June 2024 catalogue marks Armaroli’s Tierkreis as a Coup de coeur selection. This is a distributor’s editorial recommendation.
Fritz Hauser, Sergio Armaroli
Marc Medwin · May/June 2024
Medwin gives an enthusiastic assessment of Hauser and Armaroli’s contrasting interpretations, praising their exploration of sound and silence and the spacious, finely detailed recording.
Tim Feerst · August 2025
Feerst strongly praises the intentional, compelling performances and the outstanding production, highlighting the contrasting interpretations of One4. Published in volume 63, issue 4; reproduced on the artist’s website.
Faccini Piano Duo
2024-06 · Coup de coeur
The June 2024 catalogue marks the Faccini Piano Duo’s Ravel album as a Coup de coeur selection. This is a distributor’s editorial recommendation.
James Harrington · 2025-03
Harrington praises the Faccini duo’s skill, sensitivity and command of the demanding arrangements, together with the well-recorded piano sound.
Andrea Mogavero, Trio Quodlibet
Mark Gabrish Conlan · 2025-09
Conlan enthusiastically praises the infectious joy of Mogavero and Trio Quodlibet, their balance and the transparent recording. He objects to a title that might imply newly discovered Mozart works, since these are historical arrangements by Hoffmeister.
Ana Ilic, Elena Cecconi
Nicole De Sapio · 2025-05
De Sapio praises Cecconi’s fresh, silvery flute tone and the graceful partnership with Ilic, finding the performances captivating and singling out the operatic fantasies as recordings to keep.
2024-03 · Coup de coeur
The March 2024 new releases catalogue marks Cecconi and Ilic’s Genin recording as a Coup de coeur. This is a distributor’s editorial selection.
Enrico Baiano
April 2023
Rated 4 out of five in Musica, issue 345, p. 70. The official review index identifies Enrico Baiano in both books of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, played on harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Letizia Michielon · 2023-04
Amadeus d’oro, April 2023, p. 70. Michielon praises Baiano’s interpretative achievement, the striking range of colours offered by five historical keyboards and the revealing comparisons between instruments in the bonus tracks.
Francesca Torelli
December 2022
Rated 5 out of five in Musica, issue 342, December 2022-January 2023, p. 88. The official review index identifies Francesca Torelli in Renaissance Fantasias, lute music by Capirola, Mudarra, Milán, Francesco da Milano and others and confirms the rating and review page. The complete critical text is not reproduced in the index.
Colin Clarke · 47:1 Sept/Oct 2023
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Torelli’s intimate, compelling playing, the contrasting lute colours and the excellent recorded sound.
Letizia Michielon · 2023-04 · 5/5
A five-star review of Francesca Torelli’s survey of Renaissance lute fantasias, published in April 2023, p. 74.
Fabio Mina, Marco Zanotti, Peppe Frana
Roberto Binda · 27 February 2018
A very positive review of Mina’s exploration of wind and breath, praising his field recordings, varied wind instruments and discreet electronics. It describes an evocative musical journey, also noting the contributions of Marco Zanotti and Peppe Frana.
Sergio Armaroli
Angelo Foletto · 2023-04
Foletto praises Armaroli’s command of the history of experimental music and the imaginative transformation of concrete and electronic materials. Review reproduced on the composer’s official album page; issue 302.
Nunzio dello Iacovo, Vittoria Caracciolo
準特選盤
The official Japanese distributor identifies the recording as a Record Geijutsu semi-selected disc (準特選盤). The review issue, author and full text have not been recovered.
La Vertuosa Compagnia de’ Musici di Roma
Johan van Veen · 2024
An enthusiastic review of both La Ferté volumes, describing the performances as exemplary and the complete set as a valuable addition to the discography. Van Veen praises Losito’s articulation and freedom, and the harmonic and rhythmic support of Lopa and Pietrocini.
Mariama Alcântara
João Marcos Coelho · 2021-12-27
In a selection of outstanding Brazilian recordings of 2021, Coelho praises the originality of the programme and Alcântara’s playing, recommending the album emphatically.
Peter Alexander · 2022-09-06
Alexander praises Alcântara’s stylish phrasing, effortless virtuosity and command of the Brazilian idioms in Vale and Mehmari, recommending the recording for repeated listening.
Simone Pansolin
May 2022
The official index of Musica 336 documents a 5/5 rating for this recording on page 123. The complete review and its author have not been recovered; only the documented rating is reported.
2022-07
The July-August 2022 excerpt reproduced by Presto praises Pansolin’s clear musical lines and the intimate, excellent recorded sound. The full review has not yet been recovered.
G. Odero
The conservatory’s 2022-2023 programme reproduces Odero’s praise of the Zamboni recording’s instrumental command and coherent interpretation. The original issue has not yet been recovered.
C. J. Arbuthnott
The artist’s official press page reproduces Arbuthnott’s enthusiastic assessment of Pansolin’s Zamboni recording. The original issue and complete review have not yet been recovered.
Matilda Colliard
2021-09 · 4/5
The publisher’s index for issue 329, September 2021, lists Colliard’s Bach Suites with four stars, on page 68. The full review and its author have not been verified; the documented rating is reported without inferring further commentary.
Cosimo Carovani
Luca Segalla · 4/5
Carovani’s official press page reproduces Luca Segalla’s four-star review, praising the cellist’s full tone, broad phrasing, emotional range and command of Britten’s virtuoso writing. The issue date and full magazine review have not been recovered.
Claudio Jacomucci
March 2021
The official review index of Musica, issue 324, lists this recording on page 104, with a rating of 4/5. Programme and performers match this edition. The complete review has not been consulted.
Raffaele Damen
5/5 · May 2022
The official index of Musica 336, May 2022, documents a five-star rating for Aion on page 95. The full review has not been consulted.
Giovanni De Cecco
Lorenzo Tozzi · 2023-02
In the review reproduced in De Cecco’s official archive, Tozzi praises the expressive range, colour and dramatic character of the fifth volume of the Mozart sonata project. The source is an artist-hosted translation; no numerical rating is documented.
Davide Ficco
Andrea Aguzzi · 4 March 2021
Aguzzi strongly recommends Asymmetric Thought, praising its coherent artistic conception, the range of guitar-and-electronics writing and Ficco’s playing and sound engineering.
Grego Applegate Edwards · 2022-02-08
Edwards strongly recommends the collection, praising Ficco’s virtuoso insight, stylistic flexibility and the remarkable variety of interactions between contemporary guitar writing and electronics.
Luca Menichetti · 2024-02-19
Menichetti welcomes the project’s ambition, coherence and innovative combination of contemporary guitar and electronics. His account highlights the wide range of compositional approaches and recommends the set to listeners interested in adventurous contemporary music.
40 recordings +
Roberto Laneri, Agnese Banti, Benedetta Manfriani, Elisa Rossi, Frauke Aulbert
Gennaro Fucile · January 2024 · page 30
Winterträume is included in the year-end selection “Riscrivere i confini”. A critics’ selection, with no numerical star rating assigned.
Marco Tiraboschi (Guitar, Daniele Richiedei (Violin, Viola), Giulio Corini (Double bass), Javier Girotto (Saxophone, flute)
Samuele Conficoni · 2024
An exceptionally enthusiastic review praising Tiraboschi’s compositions and performances, the compelling musical and geographical connections, and the album’s lasting impact. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Riccardo Talamazzi · 2024-05-20
Talamazzi praises the expressive clarity, timbral imagination and fluid arrangements of Tiraboschi’s ensemble, with close attention to its dialogue between jazz and musical traditions.
Guido Festinese · 2024-06-01
The World Music column praises the taste and balance of Tiraboschi’s instrumental combinations and the contributions of Girotto and Ribot.
Antonello Paliotti (Guitar), Antonello Paliotti (Guitar), Armanda Desidery (Piano), Luigi Pettrone (Clarinet), Dario Franco (Double-Bass), Antonello Paliotti (Guitar), Armanda Desidery (Piano), Luigi Pettrone (Clarinet), Dario Franco (Double-Bass), Roberto Bastos (Percussion)
Ciro De Rosa · 2020-02-14
“gioiello discografico”
Exceptionally warm praise for Paliotti’s musical imagination, refined writing and accomplished performances, bringing folk traditions into dialogue with other musical languages. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Flavio Perrella · Simon Martineau · Thomas Delor
Nicole Videmann · 2 December 2019
“un projet captivant qui enchante autant qu’il surprend”
An editorial Coup de cœur praising the trio’s interplay, expressive range and assured balance of poetry, exuberance and energy. No numerical star rating is assigned.
Coffee Street Trio, Carlo Maria Barile, Vito Di Modugno, Michele Di Monte
Andrea Bedetti · 2024-12-06
Artistic assessment: 5/5; recorded sound: 4.5/5. An enthusiastic account of Coffee Street Trio’s dialogue between Bach and jazz.
Sonia Schiavone, Fabio Gorlier, Gianni Virone, Stefano Profeta
Fabio Ciminiera · 10 January 2021
Ciminiera welcomes the balance between jazz tradition and personal expression, praising the flexible chamber ensemble and an approach that keeps the melodic character of the songs in focus.
Mario Grella · 2020-07-10
An enthusiastic account of Sonia Schiavone’s expressive singing and the musical character of Come-Eden.
Federico Calcagno & The Dolphians
Mario Borroni · 19 April 2026
A highly enthusiastic review praising the album’s shared energy, imaginative ensemble colours and balance of post-bop inheritance with new directions, including its vocal contributions and tribute to Eric Dolphy.
Stefano Merighi · 2025-12-22
Album of the Week. Praise for the album’s imagination and ensemble writing, with a reservation about some vocal passages.
Neri Pollastri · 2026-01-20
Included in Neri Pollastri’s personal selection of 2025 releases.
Maurizio Zerbo · 2025-12-29
Included in Maurizio Zerbo’s personal selection of 2025 releases.
Ludovico Granvassu · 2026-01-05
Included in Ludovico Granvassu’s personal selection of 2025 releases.
Sandro Cerini · 30 March 2026
Selected in Dischi Scelti. Cerini praises the ensemble’s collective energy, stylistic breadth, lucid musical vision and creative strength, recommending the recording with exceptional enthusiasm.
Ivo Franchi · 2025 poll, reported in 2026
MusicPaper reports Face The Music among the first three albums in the Top Jazz critics’ poll for 2025, after Panorchestra and Buarqueana.
Massimiliano Milesi, Giacomo Papetti
Claudio Bonomi · 2023-11-29
An enthusiastic recommendation of the duo’s magnetic interplay and contemporary sound, bridging jazz, chamber music, rock and folk.
Enzo Favata, Marcello Peghin, Salvatore Maiore, U.T. Gandhi
Neri Pollastri · 2021-03-26
Praise for Favata’s creative vitality, the quartet’s evocative narrative sound and the quality of the recording.
Landscape Trio
Michael Tucker · 2026-08-23
An enthusiastic recommendation of Landscape Trio’s accomplished debut, praising its improvisational interplay, storytelling, jazz literacy and beautifully recorded programme.
Sextet Quartet
2025
Sextet Quartet won the jazz section of the Premio Nazionale delle Arti in 2025. This recognition concerns the ensemble and predates the release of What It Became; it is not an award to the album. The link leads to the official Vicenza Jazz presentation confirming the result.
ARE- Andrea Ruggeri Ensemble
Piergiuseppe Lippolis · 2023
An enthusiastic recommendation of Andrea Ruggeri’s tribute to Italo Calvino, praising the ensemble’s imaginative synthesis of jazz, rock, chamber music and improvisation across seven evocative suites.
Gianni Montano · 2024-01-19
Montano praises Ruggeri’s distinctive ensemble sound and well-defined compositions, singling out Elsa Martin’s vocal contribution and the imagination of the thirteen musicians.
Raffaello Carabini · 2023-02-26 · 8/10
Carabini gives the album 8/10, praising the ensemble’s expressive cohesion and the inventive interplay of timbres in Ruggeri’s musical response to Calvino.
Simone La Croce · 2023-01-18
La Croce welcomes a complex yet accessible journey through seven of Calvino’s cities, praising its balance of discovery, clarity and imaginative instrumental writing.
Carmen Avellone, Ciccio Foresta, Diego Spitaler, Fabio Lannino, Vito Giordano
John Adcock · 2020-12-01
An enthusiastic review of a reflective and coherent live programme, praising Giordano and Lannino’s lyrical restraint and the sensitive ensemble playing. The reviewer notes that the recording occasionally feels understated in level.
Carlo Chirio, Filippo Ansaldi, Filippo Cosentino, Giovanni Forti, Giuseppe Notabella, Lorenzo Arese
Michael Tucker · 2020-11-16
A highly enthusiastic recommendation of Cosentino’s chamber-jazz transformations of classical repertoire, praising the group’s economy, instrumental colour, elegant character and beautifully recorded interplay.
Andrea Direnzo
Direnzo welcomes the album’s coherent, enjoyable dialogue between Baroque music and jazz, praising Cosentino’s musicianship and the quality of his ensemble.
Salvatore Esposito · 2020-11-20
In a joint review of two different Cosentino releases, Esposito praises Leave the Thorn, Take the Rose for its imaginative Baroque transformations, excellent ensemble and musical substance. The discussion of Baritune concerns a separate recording on another label.
Amir Wahba, Oscar Antolí, Urs Hager, Victoria Kirilova
Darren Arthurs · 2025-07-06
An enthusiastic recommendation of Kirilova’s debut, praising the strength of every composition, the blend of jazz with Bulgarian and Middle Eastern influences, and the ensemble’s evocative instrumental colours.
Michael Ternai · 2025-04-03
Ternai warmly praises the ensemble’s integration of jazz, chamber music and Bulgarian traditions, the narrative strength of Kirilova’s compositions and the depth of the quartet’s sound.
2025-09-22 · Best Album nominee · 2025
Roots & Skies was nominated for Best Album at the Österreichischer Jazzpreis 2025. Victoria Kirilova was separately nominated for Best Newcomer. These are nominations, not wins.
Ljubiša Tošić · 2025-04-07
Tošić welcomes Kirilova’s debut as a discovery, praising its sophisticated accessibility, elegant movement and poetic blend of folk colours and jazz. The review also singles out the quartet’s instrumental contributions.
Ivo Franchi · 2025-06
Franchi praises the well-structured compositions, the successful fusion of chamber music, contemporary jazz and Bulgarian rhythms, and the quartet’s compact sound and close interplay. He regards this as a high-level debut.
Alessandro Chiappetta, Gianni Virone
ones · 16 January 2026
An enthusiastic review highlighting the duo’s instrumental command and the sustained exchange of melodic and harmonic roles, with comments from both musicians.
Emanuele Sartoris, Federica Bertot
Arianna Guerin · 5 May 2026
A strongly favourable review of the project’s compositional identity and the mature dialogue between Bertot’s refined sound and Sartoris’s improvisational imagination.
Angelo Baselli, Gianluca Casadei
Salvatore Esposito · 19 February 2026
An enthusiastic assessment of Baselli and Casadei’s rediscovery of historical klezmer sources, praising their instrumental partnership, rhythmic life and sensitive transformation of archival material into a living musical language.
Andrea Del Favero · 19 March 2026
Del Favero praises the duo’s vivid, physically expressive music-making and their renewal of archival klezmer material as a living tradition, naming the recording among his strongest discoveries of the year.
Francesco Negro, Gabriele di Franco, Vanesa Diaz Gil
Jacques Prouvost · 2024-10-28
Prouvost enthusiastically praises the duo’s listening and interplay, its control of tension and colour, and the understated lyricism of the programme. Vanesa Diaz Gil’s singing and the sensitive closing Ortolani arrangement receive particular admiration.
Andrea Ruggeri Small Ensemble
Simone La Croce · 8 August 2024
A highly positive review praising the expressive force of Elsa Martin’s voice and Ruggeri’s ability to shape an essential, finely balanced ensemble language, finding richness through economy rather than accumulation.
Sandro Cerini · Dischi scelti
Selected in the magazine’s Dischi scelti section. Cerini praises the music’s energy, near-orchestral impact and exploratory ambition, while recognising that the listening demands close attention.
Federico Pierantoni, Luca Cescotti, Marcello Abate, Marco Centasso, Marco Luparia, Valentina Fin
2024 · Project selection
Cohors was selected for Nuova Generazione Jazz 2024. This recognition concerns Valentina Fin’s live project, rather than a prize awarded to the recording.
Monique Chao Jazz Orchestra
Filippo Focosi · 11 March 2025
An enthusiastic assessment of this orchestral debut, praising Chao’s writing, rich instrumental colours and the balance between exuberant expression and formal clarity. Rated 8.5/10.
Ted Panken · 2024-10 · 4.5/5
A four-and-a-half-star review of Time Chamber, praising the individuality and imagination of Chao’s writing for her 18-piece orchestra.
Alessandro Turchet, Daniele Labelli
Sergio Liberati · 2022-03-17
Liberati praises the duo’s rare empathy, intimate original compositions and natural dialogue, finding a quietly beautiful tribute to the musical worlds of Kenny Wheeler and John Taylor.
Achille Succi, Antonio Pizzarelli, Bernardo Bisceglia, Claudio Vignali, Marco Frattini, Mattia Dallara, Michele Bisceglia, Rino Locantore, Stefano Senni, Vincenzo Vasi
Daniele Paganelli · 2022-03-04
Paganelli warmly welcomes the album’s distinctive identity and its dialogue between the Gargano’s rural songs, jazz, electronics and contemporary urban culture, praising the ensemble and recommending repeated listening.
Giovanni Sanguineti Nextrio
Andrea Infusino · 2020-07-11
Infusino strongly praises Sanguineti’s compositions, the trio’s natural interplay and Cigalini’s expressive soloing, highlighting the music’s melodic clarity, rhythmic invention and stylistic range.
Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera, Rodolfo Cervetto
Stefano Dentice · 2020-08-15
Dentice enthusiastically praises the trio’s expressive generosity, Mediterranean character and balanced blend of melody, harmony and rhythm, together with the vivid contributions of its guest musicians.
Adriano Lanzi, Arrigo Cappelletti, Benedetta Manfriani, Cristina Cappellini, Daniele Patumi, Fatime Halmos, Federico Camici, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Giuppi Paone, Laura Gessner, Luigi Polsini, Monica Benvenuti, Nora Tigges, Paolo Zampini, Roberto Laneri, Stefano Diotallevi, Sylvie Lewis
A strongly positive survey of Laneri’s recent recordings, describing Songs of Middle Space as a distinctive and coherent musical world and encouraging listeners to discover it.
Arrigo Cappelletti
Georges Tonla Briquet
Briquet praises Cappelletti’s handling of expectation and tension, his personal approach to the blues and the economical imagination of his interpretations of other composers.
Alex Munk, Gianmarco Scaglia, ICHOS PERCUSSION Quintet, John Moulder, Mirko Pedrotti, Paul Wertico
Bill Milkowski · 2023-11 · 4/5
Four stars. Milkowski praises the bold conception and stylistic range of the ensemble, from groove-based writing to experimental percussion and the reworking of Cage.
Jeff Cebulski · 2023-08-18 · 4/5
Four stars. Cebulski recommends the recording for its imaginative ensemble interplay, layered production and vivid recorded sound.
David Barsalou · 2023-08-31
Barsalou strongly endorses Wertico’s experimental approach, with particular attention to his deconstruction of Cage. The article was also republished by Drumming News Network.
Archimia String Quartet, Claudio “Wally” Allifranchini, Fabrizio Bosso
Flavio Caprera · 2023-06-27
Caprera warmly praises the ensemble’s performances and Allifranchini’s arrangements, finding an effective balance between jazz quartet and strings and an engaging tribute to Bacharach.
Antonio Fusco, Noah Lynn Hocker, Satoshi Tokuda, Yasuhiro Kohama, Yuki Hirate
A favourable assessment of Fusco’s engagement with bebop, the individual shaping of the repertoire and the well-matched quintet.
Annika Borsetto, Christian Stanchina, Luca Poletti, Matteo Cuzzolin, Matteo Giordani, Michele Bazzanella, Paolo Fresu, Stefano Senni
Georges Tonla Briquet
A favourable discussion of the album’s varied jazz colours, ensemble contributions and delicate solo-piano conclusion. This review concerns the original Colors recording, later distributed by Da Vinci.
Gabriele Palumbo, Manfredi Tumminello, Marco Spinella, Ruggiero Mascellino
Stefano Dentice · 2023-03-11
Dentice praises Mascellino’s melodic sensitivity, expressive range and natural movement between styles, highlighting the quartet’s freshness and the contributions of its guest musicians.
Antonio Fusco, ANTONIO FUSCO TRIO, Ferdinando Romano, Manuel Magrini
Mario Borroni · 2025-11-23
Borroni considers Sete a remarkable album, praising Fusco’s melodic approach to drumming, Magrini’s suggestive playing and Romano’s lyrical precision within the trio’s responsive interplay.
Francesco Cataldo Verrina · 2024-03-21
A very positive assessment of the trio’s equal, fluid interplay, melodic clarity and creative depth, finding complexity without complication and accessibility without predictability.
Aldo Caramellino, Cesare Mecca, Donato Stolfi, Fabio Gorlier, Gianni Virone, Sonia Schiavone, Stefano Profeta
Riccardo Talamazzi · 2022-07-16
An enthusiastic assessment of Schiavone’s intonation, clear and flexible voice, assured scat singing and the finely integrated instrumental ensemble.
Eugenio Mirti · 2022-06-08
Mirti praises Schiavone’s immaculate singing, original arrangements and the quality of the band, finding the tribute both well conceived and persuasively performed.
Cesare Chiacchiaretta, Enrico Fagone, Fernando Suarez Paz, Marco Colacioppo, Quartetto Suarez Paz
Marco Gemelli · 2022-07-07
An enthusiastic review celebrates the quartet’s stylistic understanding, expressive solos and close interplay, recommending this live recording as a distinctive tribute to Piazzolla.
Andrea Dindo, Enrico Fagone, Gabriele Baldocci, Luis Bacalov, Lyda Chen, Martha Argerich, Néstor Marconi, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Luca Segalla · 2022-11
Issue 98, November-December 2022, pages 76-77. Segalla praises Fagone’s intense phrasing, the character of the arrangements and the ensemble performances. He also notes differences in sound quality between recordings made at different times and venues.
Dadi, Ferruccio Spinetti, Giovanni Ceccarelli, Luca Falomi, Michela Lombardi, Petra Magoni, Stéphane Casalta
Ivo Franchi · 2022-02
Franchi warmly recommends the trio’s multilingual chamber jazz, praising Lombardi’s expressive singing, Ceccarelli’s original songs and Falomi’s discreet instrumental colours.
Thierry Docmac · 2022-01-14 · Indispensable
The two editorial teams select the album as Indispensable, praising its melodic invention, poetic texts and the trio’s exceptional refinement.
Ermanno Baron, Francesco Negro, Igor Legari
Angelo Leonardi · 2015-09-03
Review of the original edition, preceding the Da Vinci reissue. Leonardi praises Negro’s sophisticated harmony and luminous touch, the trio’s spacious interplay and the balance between formal discipline and improvisational freedom.
Antonio Fusco, Eric Capone, Luca Roseto
Raffaello Carabini · 2021-09-12 · 7/8
Carabini warmly praises the trio’s varied original pieces and the quality of its solos. He also finds its jazz treatment of Elefante bianco successful, while preferring Demetrio Stratos’s original vocal interpretation. The published rating is written as 7/8.
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Luca Ricci
2018-04
A five-star review praising Ricci’s two guitar pieces, their personal musical language and detailed explanations of notation and interpretative aims. Published in the April–June 2018 issue, pp. 41–42.
Francesco Ottonello, Pietro Zappalà
Luigi Magistrelli · 2022-12
A highly enthusiastic recommendation of Francesco Ottonello’s modern edition, praising its accuracy and Pietro Zappalà’s informative introduction and critical commentary.
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