Challenge Classics

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…

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…

Lieske and Spindler's interpretations can be expansively orchestral in conception...or intimately lyrical and expressive...Albéniz apparently said his music appealed to him more when played... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…

a real treasure...What makes this anthology so enriching is the skill of their arrangements...The two tenors of father and son - shared DNA, complementary tints and timbres - blend with grace... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Roth is stark and uncompromising throughout, drawing you into its claustrophobic world, especially in the central Adagio. Thomas Sanderling and the London Symphony Orchestra provide sturdy support... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Everything is scrupulously prepared, finely considered and well dispatched, with no recourse to eccentricities of interpretation or tempo to make transient points. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024 More…

The artistry and technique evinced in her Schumann are equally evident here: I particularly enjoyed her Handel Variations, whose narrative arc comes across very strongly, with an emphasis on... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…