Browse: Aparté (label)

This is a most worthwhile disc of fine, well-made chamber music by a composer largely unknown to the wider world. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017 More…

Masmondet and his Czech players turn a searchlight on Strauss’s surging textural interplay, uncovering passing details that often pass by unacknowledged. The Czech National may not possess the... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Simply put, there’s nothing quite like good Baroque music played well, and this is a disc that captures the modesty, curiosity and unbefuddled clarity of period performance from years past...The... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2020 More…

Unaffected, highly accomplished musicianship [by] Pierre Fouchenneret and Romain Descharmes…Fouchenneret’s tone is warm yet finely focused and with spot-on intonation throughout. Descharmes’s... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2016 More…

Sakai’s performances are distinguished by the freshness and sincerity of his interpretations. He is an eloquent exponent, never pretentious or superficial, never afraid to play slowly. He produces... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…

Christophe Rousset’s recording is distinguished by a dazzling variety of articulation, dynamics and timbres … The playing of Les Talens Lyriques is supple and characterful … Piau is faultlessly... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2015 More…

Listening to this recording of Scipione, you might well judge it one of Handel’s strongest scores: aria after aria bristles with vitality and personality...Long unavailable, it has been reissued... — Financial Times, 21st August 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Infectious futurist jazz… Spanning synthpop to electronic R&B, the singer and bassist’s expansive Blue Note debut is a genre-hopping class act, with guests to match. — The Guardian More…