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Challenge Classics

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Showing 21 - 30 of 33 results
  • Wagner: Symphony in C, Tristan und Isolde & Siegfried Idyll

    Wagner: Symphony in C, Tristan und Isolde & Siegfried Idyll

    Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart

    • Release Date: 8th Sep 2014
    • Catalogue No: CC72649
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 77 minutes

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    $17.00

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  • Violent Viola

    Violent Viola

    “Violent Viola” is a collection which covers a wide and eclectic range, with music dating from the 16th century (John Dowland) through to the 20th (Kodaly and Britten).

    Esther Apituley (viola) & Rië Tanaka (piano)

    Amsterdam Viola Quartet

    • Release Date: 24th Jul 2006
    • Catalogue No: CC72156
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 73 minutes

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  • Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24

    Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24

    Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Vinson Cole (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) & Jaco Huijpen (bass)

    The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & The Netherlands Radio Choir, Bernard Haitink

    Haitink's increasingly dramatic reading of the score comfortably outstrips [Furtwängler and Solti]. Concern that his rather classical Marche hongroise is eschewing the danger and violence implicit... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2011 More…
    • Release Date: 16th May 2011
    • Catalogue No: CC72517
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

    2 CDs

    $23.00

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  • Works for Horn & Orchestra

    Works for Horn & Orchestra

    Martin van de Merwe, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    Hans Vonk

    • Release Date: 1st Jan 1999
    • Catalogue No: CC72094
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 56 minutes

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  • Purcell: Symphony While The Swans Come Forward

    Purcell: Symphony While The Swans Come Forward

    Johannette Zomer (soprano)

    La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross

    • Release Date: 1st Jun 2018
    • Catalogue No: CC72783
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 78 minutes

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  • Strauss, R: Elektra

    Strauss, R: Elektra

    Michaela Schuster (Klytämnestra), Evelyn Herlitzius (Elektra), Camilla Nylund (Chrysothemis), Hubert Delamboye (Aegisth) & Gerd Grochowski (Orest)

    Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra & Toonkunst Choir Amsterdam, Marc Albrecht

    If there's such a thing as an anti-Solti Elektra, this is it...[it] burns at its own distinctive temperature, with a strong sense of live-performance through-line and in a much more orchestrally... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 More…
    • Release Date: 19th Nov 2012
    • Catalogue No: CC72565
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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    $39.75

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  • Wagner: Der Ring, Tristan und Isolde & Parsifal

    Wagner: Der Ring, Tristan und Isolde & Parsifal

    Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart

    • Release Date: 1st Nov 2010
    • Catalogue No: CC72338
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

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  • Afscheid Van Een Springlevend Orkest

    Afscheid Van Een Springlevend Orkest

    Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Simone Kermes, Groot Omroepkoor, Florian Boesch, Alice Coote, Alice Cooten, Henriette Bonden-Hansen

    Frans Brüggen, Michael Schønwandt, Michael Gläser, Jaap van Zweden, Philippe Herreweghe, James MacMillan

    • Release Date: 12th Jul 2013
    • Catalogue No: CC72611
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

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  • Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier

    Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier

    Camilla Nylund (Die Feldmarschallin), Peter Rose (Baron Ochs), Paula Murrihy (Octavian), Hanna-Elisabeth Muller (Sophie)

    Dutch National Opera Chorus, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht

    • Release Date: 10th Nov 2017
    • Catalogue No: CC72741
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

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    $39.75

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  • Strauss, R: Arabella

    Strauss, R: Arabella

    Jacquelyn Wagner (Arabella), Agneta Eichenholz (Zdenka), James Rutherford (Mandryka), Will Hartmann (Matteo), Marcel Reijans (Elemer), Susanne Elmark (Fiakermilli), Alfred Reiter (Count Waldner), Charlotte Margiono (Adelaide)

    Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht

    Jacquelyn Wagner here in this recording convinces fom the start. The clarity and diction of the middle soprano range impress…the Netherlands Philharmonic sounds infallibly gorgeous. The balances... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 2nd Oct 2015
    • Catalogue No: CC72686
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

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    $40.75

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