Challenge Classics
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![Faenza - An Imaginary Codex]()
Faenza - An Imaginary Codex$16.99
An extraordinary recording based on the famous middle-age manuscript Codex Faenza. Extraordinary for the thrilling interpretation of this often obscure and remote musical language. Extraordinary for it's continuous and seamless capacity of captivating the listener,...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 25, 2025
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![Discovering Roslavets - I. Silver Night]()
Discovering Roslavets - I. Silver Night$16.99
Debut recording for an experienced piano trio, who celebrate their fifteenth anniversary launching a series devoted to Russian composer Nikolaj Roslavets, known as the Russian Schoenberg. This is the first volume and it couples Roslavets'...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 25, 2025
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![Illuminations - Improvisations on Bach]()
Illuminations - Improvisations on Bach$16.99
Second disc of the great accordionist Philippe Thuriot on Challenge Classics. After arrangements of Scarlatti Sonatas (CC 72994), Philippe plunges in a more daring project: improvisations on Bach's music. The result is amazing for the...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 18, 2025
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![The Last Breath - Four Scherzos, Barcarole, Nocturnes, Op. 6]()
The Last Breath - Four Scherzos, Barcarole, Nocturnes, Op. 6$16.99
First disc by Alessandro Deljavan on Challenge Classics. Pupil of, among others, Nabore, Berman and Bashkirov, Deljavan chose some masterpieces of Chopin repertoire which have been recorded hundred of times. But, as usual with him,...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 18, 2025
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![Spain On Fire - Divine and human passions in the Spanish Bar]()
Spain On Fire - Divine and human passions in the Spanish Bar$16.99
Challenge Classics is proud to present the first collaboration with reputed Spanish ensemble Accademia del Piacere. Accademia del Piacere for about ten records which have received several awards around the world. This new recording by...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
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![Chamber Music - Piazzolla, A. / Beethoven, L. / Shostakovich]()
Chamber Music - Piazzolla, A. / Beethoven, L. / Shostakovich$18.99
Classical Music
Format: CD
Release Date: September 10, 2007
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![Concerts at the Abbey of Schlagl]()
Concerts at the Abbey of Schlagl$16.99
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
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![Francisco Coll - A Portrait]()
Francisco Coll - A Portrait$16.99
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
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![Enescu & Respighi: Changes - String Octets]()
Enescu & Respighi: Changes - String Octets$16.99
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
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![J.S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Organ, BWV 525-530]()
J.S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Organ, BWV 525-530$24.99
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
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![Chopin: A Private Story - Piano Works]()
Chopin: A Private Story - Piano Works$16.99
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
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![Max Richter Remixed]()
Max Richter Remixed$16.99
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
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![Schubert: The Complete Symphonies (4 CD Set)]()
Schubert: The Complete Symphonies (4 CD Set)$24.99
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
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![Torelli: 12 Concerti da camera for two violins & basso conti]()
Torelli: 12 Concerti da camera for two violins & basso contiWorld 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
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![The Late Quartets, Vol. 1 - Beethoven, Op. 127 & Shostakovic]()
On SaleThe Late Quartets, Vol. 1 - Beethoven, Op. 127 & Shostakovic$11.99 Regular price
$16.99As 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
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