“Few performers would feature an adaption of Henze’s “El Cimarron” alongside the expected Bach... As it turned out, Käppel’s choices were completely in line with technical facility, the sort befitting a thinking man’s virtuoso. Bach rarely sounded better.”
THE WASHINGTON POST

„“Germany’s finest classical guitarist and one of the world’s top players, Hubert Käppel effortlessly renders Bach with great musicality, breathing life in to it at every phrase.”
GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE, USA

“A guitarist of surpassing accomplishment and imagination. It would be difficult to imagine a guitar player more sensitive, more musically aware than Hubert Käppel. He has at his command an unusual range of tone quality, and a dynamic scale that reaches from the softest imaginable sounds to raging torrents. Käppel was so convincing both in his transcriptions and his performances, that I am certain Brahms would not only have approved, he would have been pleased. The performance was totally devastating.”
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

“I doubt that there are many guitarists who could even handle the mechanics of Bach’s BWV 830, let alone present the product as worthwhile music – which is what Käppel does.... This is surely one of the most magnificent discs of guitar music to appear for many years.”
John Duarte GUITAR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE

“Mr. Käppel is musically scrupulous... The Brahm’s transcriptions, his own, were presented with an especially earnest concentration as if they were his own children.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Only an artist with a perfect technique can even dream of tackling such a difficult and demanding work, one which even accomplished pianists avoid.”
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

“Given his exeptional programming and consummate playing Hubert Käppel proved that he ranks amongst the truly great guitarists of our time”
DAGBLAD TROUW ROTTERDAM

“An enviable Liszt of the classical guitar, he delivered a demanding repertoire with technical brilliance and musical generosity.”
THE STRAIT TIMES SINGAPORE

“The most outstanding performance and highlight of the Tichy Guitar Festival was given by Hubert Käppel. The audience demonstrated their enthusiasm with countless standing ovations and refused to let him leave the stage.”
GITARRE & LAUTE MAGAZINE

“The appearance of guest artist in Cannington usually heralds a great artist. But this year the German guitarist Hubert Käppel astonished everyone with his consummate artistry. A superb programme. In particular the Brahm’s pieces proved a magnificant ‘find’, a direct line from Käppel’s achievement with the Bach 6th Partita.”
GUITAR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE LONDON

“In the Brahm’s Intermezzi Käppel made use of his incredibly colourful sound spectrum so that all doubt was left behind and one followed the harmonies ecstatically.”
BASLER ZEITUNG, SWIZZERLAND

„The most dynamic performance (Bach’s 6th Partita for Piano) in modern classical guitar history.“
GENDAI GUITAR, JAPAN

“This careful and deeply serious performance by German guitarist Hubert Käppel made the visit an event, a moving experience.”
CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE