Challenge Classics

  • Concerts at the Abbey of Schlagl
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    Concerts at the Abbey of Schlagl

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    In the Upper Austrian Schlagl Abbey there are numerous instrumental instrumental concertos, mostly for solo violin, but often also for harpsichord.�The demands on the violin soloist are enormous. There must have been a very talented...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 14, 2025

  • Francisco Coll - A Portrait
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    Francisco Coll - A Portrait

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    Francisco Coll is one of the leading composers in today musical landscape. The only pupil of Thomas Ades, his music has been already performed by most important orchestras and such soloists as Kirill Gerstein and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 28, 2025

  • Enescu & Respighi: Changes - String Octets
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    Enescu & Respighi: Changes - String Octets

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    Roctet proposes two String Octets both composed in the same year, 1900. The 18yo Enescu brings fragments of his Romanian background and Viennese and French musical upbringing together into a unity and thus draws us...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 14, 2025

  • J.S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Organ, BWV 525-530
    J.S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Organ, BWV 525-530

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    In Johann Sebastian Bach's six organ sonatas, three independent voices sound interchangeably. The right hand plays the highest voice, the left hand the middle voice and the feet the bass. A true musician wants to...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: January 24, 2025

  • Chopin: A Private Story - Piano Works
    Chopin: A Private Story - Piano Works

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    To me, this album is both a personal story and a musical narrative about one of the (piano) composers I find the most fascinating: Frederic Chopin. I chose a dozen works; twelve of his jewels...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 18, 2024

  • Max Richter Remixed
    Max Richter Remixed

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    With their long-awaited new album Max Richter Remixed the Trio Fibonacci invites us to rediscover the genius of Max Richter through their own completely new and original transcriptions for piano trio. Following the centuries-old tradition...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2024

  • Schubert: The Complete Symphonies (4 CD Set)
    Schubert: The Complete Symphonies (4 CD Set)

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    We at Challenge Classics are proud to present the complete edition of Schubert's symphonies in the interpretation offered by Jan Willem de Vriend conducting the Residentie Orkest Den Haag.�-� Even among experts, these symphonies were...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 16, 2024

  • Torelli: 12 Concerti da camera for two violins & basso conti
    Torelli: 12 Concerti da camera for two violins & basso conti

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    World premiere recording of Torelli's Triosonatas op. 2 (1686). Torelli's Opus 2 sonatas�consist of three dances: in each of these dances he explores a great variety of styles. This recording is an important contribution to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 19, 2024

  • The Late Quartets, Vol. 1 - Beethoven, Op. 127 & Shostakovic
    The Late Quartets, Vol. 1 - Beethoven, Op. 127 & Shostakovic

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    As much as the now popular sentence naming Shostakovich "the Beethoven of the 20th Century" is debatable, nobody can deny an amount of contact points between the two composers: above all, the favorite musical mediums...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 04, 2024

  • Schubert / Drigo / Vieuxtemps / Cage / Stravinsky / Apituley
    Schubert / Drigo / Vieuxtemps / Cage / Stravinsky / Apituley

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    Schubert / Drigo / Vieuxtemps / Cage / Stravinsky / Apituley


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 14, 2013

  • WEIHNACHTSORATORIUM
    WEIHNACHTSORATORIUM

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    The Christmas Oratorio is a series of six separate cantatas, collectively relating the story from Christmas through to Twelfth Night. Bach wrote the work in Leipzig in 1734 and 1735 for Christmas Day, Boxing Day,...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: April 12, 2019

  • Mouton, C.: Concertos a 5 Nos. 1-10
    Mouton, C.: Concertos a 5 Nos. 1-10

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    Mouton, C.: Concertos a 5 Nos. 1-10


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 29, 2010

  • Bach, J.S.: Cantatas (Complete), Vol. 16  - Bwv 16, 27, 39,
    Bach, J.S.: Cantatas (Complete), Vol. 16 - Bwv 16, 27, 39,

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    Bach, J.S.: Cantatas (Complete), Vol. 16 - Bwv 16, 27, 39,


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 15, 2004

  • Italophilia - Discovering the Italian Style in Handel's Lond
    Italophilia - Discovering the Italian Style in Handel's Lond

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    This CD by The Counterpoints, entitled Italophilia: Discovering the Italian style in Handel's London, investigates the Italian musical influences on English baroque music in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.�Already in 1683, Henry Purcell (1659-1695) had...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 10, 2025

  • Beethoven: Middle String Quartets
    Beethoven: Middle String Quartets

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    Second volume of Narratio Quartet complete survey of Beethoven's string quartets. This 2CD set gathers together the three complex Quartets op. 59 and the more accessible Quartet op.74. Early Music Review about CC 72969 (Early...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 17, 2025