Challenge Classics

The solos and duos on this radiant release from Fedorov, Daniel Rowland and Maja Bogdanović are in themselves powerfully intimate, and are imbued with still greater intensity in light of the... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[The 'Harmonious Blacksmith'] gives Koopman scope to demonstrate his virtuosity and his innate exuberance. For the most part, though, his playing seems to have acquired a degree of restraint... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

For those new to Buxtehude's organ works both the programming and the instrument make these discs the ideal hopping on point. Plaintive chorale elaborations supply contemplative respite from... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

beautifully sung and performed by two undoubted specialists in this repertory, who make as good a case for recording as one can imagine. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

No one undertakes a recording of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues lightly, and Dutch pianist Hannes Minnaar engages an authoritative objectivity in running the ever-surprising gamut of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Prégardien can always be relied upon to approach art song thoughtfully and adventurously… [He] sounds like he’s in his element, striding assuredly through this hit parade and savouring each... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Sound) More…

Prégardien never allows the novelty of a new incarnation to distract him: his singing here is full of imaginative insights...the tenor's courage and imagination triumph. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Performing on two copies of Stefanini and Ruckers harpsichords, Ton Koopman completes the exquisite solo oeuvre by Buxtehude with captivating élan. For a musician with somewhat precipitous tendencies,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Throughout her very taxing programme, Gurdal plays with a romantic fullness and a lack of inhibition that makes you fall in love with Scriabin's early and glittering outpouring...Playing over... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…