Challenge Classics

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…

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…

Not surprisingly, [the performances] are much in the same vein as in Vol. 1, which is to say bright and buoyant, with no tricks or surprises but plenty of energy and brilliance. Bonizzoni’s... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Joseph’s well-known work may not be a contender in this recording but Terakado and Amano set the standard in Michael’s double concerto. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

The solos and duos on this radiant release from Fedorov, Daniel Rowland and Maja Bogdanović are in themselves powerfully intimate, and are imbued with still greater intensity in light of the... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…