Challenge Classics
515 products
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![Sonate Accademiche - An Anthology]()
Sonate Accademiche - An Anthology$16.99
Florentine, born Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1786), was considered one of the greatest violin virtuosos of his day. Periods of residence in London, Dusseldorf, Venice, and Dresden brought the eccentric musician international fame. Amongst his extensive...
Format: CD
Release Date: July 25, 2025
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![A French Odyssey - Music for two cellos by Rameau, Barriere,]()
A French Odyssey - Music for two cellos by Rameau, Barriere,$16.99
The ferment of the Enlightenment, the early signs of the Revolution and the intellectual debate on colonialism fuel this French odyssey. During the Age of Exploration, France experienced an unprecedented cultural fervor. Trade routes and...
Format: CD
Release Date: July 18, 2025
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![Reflections, Op. 28 - Mallorca preludes]()
Reflections, Op. 28 - Mallorca preludes$16.99
Reflections Op. 28: Mallorca preludes marks the debut album of classical concert pianist Egle Andrejevaite. In 2016, the Chopin Festival of Valldemossa commissioned 24 esteemed contemporary Spanish composers to create responses to Chopin's 24 preludes....
Format: CD
Release Date: July 11, 2025
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![Sonatas for violin & harpsichord]()
Sonatas for violin & harpsichord$16.99
This disc contains a selection of beautiful and very individual music for violin and harpsichord by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The performers are two among the most distinguished musicians of the Baroque on HIP (Historical...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 27, 2025
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![Alma Mahler, lovers & friends - Lieder by Korngold, A. Mahle]()
Alma Mahler, lovers & friends - Lieder by Korngold, A. Mahle$16.99
A refined Lieder recital focused on the fascinating figure of Alma Mahler. All main composers of Vienna at the outset of the 20th century are represented. An unprecedented flourishing of musical and artistic talents concentrated...
Format: CD
Release Date: July 18, 2025
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![Isidora zebeljan - Three Curious Loves]()
Isidora zebeljan - Three Curious Loves$16.99
Isidora zebeljan (Belgrade, 1967-2020) was the most outstanding and internationally acclaimed Serbian composer. Here is a hommage and a passionate portrait of her chamber and orchestral output made by some of Challenge best artists gathered...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 13, 2025
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![Late String Quartets]()
Late String QuartetsLast instalment in Narratio Quartet revolutionary version of Beethoven's String Quartets. This last 4CD box contains all the likewise revolutionary late Quartets, from opus 95 until opur 135, never premiered until after Beethoven's death. Once...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 06, 2025
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![More than Muses - Female creative power in the Golden Age]()
More than Muses - Female creative power in the Golden Age$16.99
First disc and debut recording of Tabea Schwartz's Vernon Consort, another remarkable fruit of the Musik-Akademie Basel. The programme of this recording is an enthralling discovery journey through the female musical environment of the Netherlands...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 23, 2025
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![An Afternoon in van Swieten's Salon]()
An Afternoon in van Swieten's Salon$16.99
An exciting journey through the time: Mozart played on a fortepiano, according to 19th Century performing style, with today sensitivity. Keiko Shichijo introduces us to Baron van Swieten's salon, where Mozart used to play the...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 09, 2025
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![Suonate per violino e violone o cimbalo, Op. 7, Vol. 1]()
Suonate per violino e violone o cimbalo, Op. 7, Vol. 1$16.99
The renowned Austrian Ensemble Castor presents the first part of the world premiere recording of Johannes Schenck's complete Op.7. This is the only work�written by Schenck for violin and basso continuo.. Schenck's exciting music is...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 30, 2025
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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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