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Challenge Classics

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  • Freedom - Handel: Oratorio Arias

    New,Freedom - Handel: Oratorio Arias

    Oscar Verhaar (countertenor), La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross

    There is a lot of thought-provoking music and a lot of thought-provoking musicology on this album. Supporting the whole project is some really beautiful instrumental playing: listen especially... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2024 More…
    • Release Date: 26th Apr 2024
    • Catalogue No: CC72973
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 65 minutes

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  • Schubert - Schwanengesang & Songs After Seidl

    Schubert - Schwanengesang & Songs After Seidl

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    Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

    …an outstanding performance. …deeply engaged robustly expressive singing whose rhythmic rigour and details of phrasing and articulation reveal an exciting commitment to this great cycle. …with... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 27th Oct 2008
    • Catalogue No: CC72302
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 71 minutes

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  • Schubert: Winterreise D911

    Schubert: Winterreise D911

    Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Michael Gees (piano)

    This is the voice of an older Pregardien: he has the grey hair for which Schubert's lonely wanderer longs. But the voice is in superb form, sensing out the underlying pulse and the minutest... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 13th May 2013
    • Catalogue No: CC72596
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 70 minutes

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  • Buxtehude - Harpsichord Works 1

    Buxtehude - Harpsichord Works 1

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    Opera Omnia 1

    Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

    • Release Date: 24th Nov 2006
    • Catalogue No: CC72240
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Series: Buxtehude Opera Omnia
    • Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

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  • Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795

    Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795

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    Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Michael Gees (piano)

    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... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 31st Mar 2008
    • Catalogue No: CC72292
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 61 minutes

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  • Respighi: Works for String Quartet

    Respighi: Works for String Quartet

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    Brodsky Quartet, Anne Sofie von Otter

    • Catalogue No: CC72008
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 65 minutes

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  • Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Vol. 1

    Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Vol. 1

    Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord/conductor)

    La Risonanza

    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... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…
    • Release Date: 11th May 2018
    • Catalogue No: CC72773
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 63 minutes

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  • Mealli: Violin Sonatas Op. 3 & 4

    Mealli: Violin Sonatas Op. 3 & 4

    Eva Saladin (violin)

    — Gramophone Magazine, September 2023 More…
    • Release Date: 2nd Jun 2023
    • Catalogue No: CC72948
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 81 minutes

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  • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87

    Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87

    Hannes Minnaar (piano)

    No one undertakes a recording of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues lightly, and Dutch pianist Hannes Minnaar engages an authoritative objectivity in running the ever-surprising gamut of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…
    • Release Date: 4th Nov 2022
    • Catalogue No: CC72907
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

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  • J S Bach - Complete Cantatas Volume 22

    J S Bach - Complete Cantatas Volume 22

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    Sandrine Piau, Johannette Zomer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz, Nathalie Stutzman (alto), James Gilchrist, Christoph Prégardien, Jörg Dürmüller (tenor) & Klaus Mertens (bass)

    The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman

    Koopman's irrepressible enthusiasm and impish wit remain undiminished as he ends his immense 12 year project recording all Bach's cantatas. Assured vocal soloists, fluent choir and impeccable... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 More…
    • Release Date: 30th Oct 2006
    • Catalogue No: CC72222
    • Label: Challenge Classics
    • Series: Koopman Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

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