Browse: Challenge Classics (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Challenge Classics.
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Bononcini: Cantate Per Contralto Con Violini Alois Muhlbacher (counter-tenor), Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor,
Mühlbacher sings these laments expressively, with smooth tone and accurate semiquaver runs. — More…
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Wolf, H: Italienisches Liederbuch
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julia Kleiter (soprano) & Hilko Dumno (piano)
Both Prégardien and Kleiter (with their excellent pianist Hilko Dumno aiding and abetting) offer larger than life portrayals...Prégardien, with his baritonic tenor, finds the measure of each... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Freedom - Handel: Oratorio Arias Oscar Verhaar (countertenor), La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross
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Buxtehude: Complete Chamber Music Catherine Manson (violin), David Rabinovich (violin), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba), Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Christine Sticher (violone); Mike Fentross (lute)
Koopman has assembled an ensemble of intelligent and intensely musical collaborators, and their individual styles mesh well. Moreover, the recorded sound is warm and intimate, but still clear,... — More…
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Prégardien brings ever new revelation to the songs, and though his pianist, Michael Gees, plays a modern piano, both vocal and keyboard parts are ornamented in the performing practice of Schubert's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Bach - Latin Church Music Volume 1 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman (director)
Koopman achieves a truly astonishing clarity and focus from 16 voices… He's superbly served, too, by his instrumentalists, horns flying effortlessly through uplifting strands of figures in the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, Disc of the month
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There is a pleasing quality to Fabio Bonizzoni’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos, which achieves the difficult task of combining subtle artifice and interpretative joie de vivre with... — More…
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[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... — More…
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