Challenge Classics

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…

Lisa Jacobs plays with firm tone and admirable technical control in these live performances, and I’m particularly taken with the dark sound she draws from the low register of her 1683 Rugieri. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

The string playing is so crisp and clear, even at faster than-average tempos, that, at least in the two early symphonies, the section sounds smaller than it actually is. Here, he does what Harnoncourt... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

The performance by the Ars Antiqua Austria, mostly one on a part, does full justice to these lovely little gems. The intonation is excellent, and the players instinctively have a penchant for... — Fanfare, May/June 2023 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…

Throughout, the playing is poised, gracious and rhetorically phrased. The historic harpsichord (preserved in the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Neuchâtel) is by Sweelinck ’s Flemish contemporary... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…