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Challenge Classics

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  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

    Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

    Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Bernard Haitink

    What we have is a fine, detailed performance – and it includes the disputed cymbal clash at the climax of the great slow movement, music to celebrate and mourn Richard Wagner – and an account... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…
    • Release Date: 1st Oct 2021
    • Catalogue No: CC72895
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 68 minutes

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  • Die schöne Müllerin / Schwanengesang / Winterreise

    Die schöne Müllerin / Schwanengesang / Winterreise

    Michael Gees, Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (early keyboard instruments)

    My desert-island choice for a highly cultivated yet quite personal tenor-voice foray into Schubert’s world. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2021 More…
    • Release Date: 11th Jun 2021
    • Catalogue No: CC72665
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

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    3 CDs

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  • Jacob Obrecht: Missa Maria Zart

    Special offer. Jacob Obrecht: Missa Maria Zart

    Cappella Pratensis

    Stratton Bull

    This is clearly a well-honed performance, strongest in delicate moments....This new release is a happy marriage of musicality and musicology. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2023 More…
    • Release Date: 14th Apr 2023
    • Catalogue No: CC72933
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 64 minutes

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  • Schubert - Schwanengesang & Songs After Seidl

    Schubert - Schwanengesang & Songs After Seidl

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    Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

    …an outstanding performance. …deeply engaged robustly expressive singing whose rhythmic rigour and details of phrasing and articulation reveal an exciting commitment to this great cycle. …with... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 27th Oct 2008
    • Catalogue No: CC72302
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 71 minutes

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  • Bach: Goldberg Variations

    Bach: Goldberg Variations

    Hannes Minnaar (piano)

    • Release Date: 24th Sep 2021
    • Catalogue No: CC72859
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 97 minutes

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  • Torelli: 12 Concerti da Camera for Two Violins and Basso Continuo, Op. 2

    New. Torelli: 12 Concerti da Camera for Two Violins and Basso Continuo, Op. 2

    Pietro Battistoni, Rosso Verona Baroque Ensemble

    • Release Date: 26th Jul 2024
    • Catalogue No: CC72989
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 73 minutes

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  • Works for Cello

    Works for Cello

    Marina Tarasova, Ivan Sokolov

    This is neither facile, authorities-pleasing Communist agitprop or thorny modernism – instead, it resides in a recognisably late-Romantic world. Cellist Marina Tarasova inhabits her compatriots’... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 17th Feb 2023
    • Catalogue No: CC72940
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 62 minutes

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  • Willem Jeths: Requiem

    Willem Jeths: Requiem

    Andreas Wolf, Kelly God

    Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, James Gaffigan

    This is a powerful performance, with the orchestra and organ at full force and well balanced with the choir. Bass baritone Andreas Wolf is excellent—his intonation is spot-on and his tone focused,... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2021 More…
    • Release Date: 21st May 2021
    • Catalogue No: CC72874
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 56 minutes

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  • Einsam

    Einsam

    Nino Gvetadze (piano)

    This is, quite simply, gorgeous. Nino Gvetazde plays Schumann’s much-loved Arabeske, Kinderszenen and Kreisleriana, as though they flow spontaneously from her. Time is elastic, liberated from... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 9th Oct 2020
    • Catalogue No: CC72855
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 66 minutes

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  • Buxtehude - Organ Works 5

    Buxtehude - Organ Works 5

    Opera Omnia X

    Ton Koopman (The Bielfeldt organ (1736), St. Wilhadi, Stade, Germany)

    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…
    • Release Date: 25th May 2009
    • Catalogue No: CC72249
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Series: Buxtehude Opera Omnia
    • Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

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    2 CDs

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