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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...

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Release Date: February 28, 2025

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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...

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Release Date: January 24, 2025

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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...

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Release Date: January 17, 2025

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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...

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Release Date: January 10, 2025

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I do not believe that there is a 'right' and a 'wrong' instrument on which to perform Beethoven's Sonatas Opus 2. What matters is the musical result. It depends on the alchemy that is created...

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Release Date: November 15, 2024

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Second of three instalments in this�Lazic-de Vriend-Bergen Philharmonic unique project. Famous Concertos nos. 21 & 9 are alongside the Rondo K. 382. Once more all candenza and leads-in are inventive creations by�Lazic. Fanfare (USA):�I find...

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Release Date: November 15, 2024

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Geminiani's Sonatas op.5 are particularly significant, marking milestones in my musical journey. What fascinates me about Geminiani is his propensity for unpredictable, asymmetrical and improvisatory style - both as a composer and as a performer....

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Release Date: November 15, 2024

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Music in Bali plays a vital role in society and in daily life. Apart from serving art, music is also used to support religious ceremonies. For us as brothers from a Dutch father and Balinese...

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Release Date: November 01, 2024

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For his 80th birthday, Ton Koopman has chosen some of his favourite tracks from the many recordings he has made for Challenge Classics / Antoine Marchand since 2002. This is a celebratory collection in four...

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Release Date: October 25, 2024

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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

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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...

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Release Date: October 18, 2024

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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...

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Release Date: October 04, 2024

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Second and last instalment in Jan de Vriend and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra complete survey of Robert Schumann's symphonies. Such accomplished, high-class music-making makes the imminent follow-up with the Rhenish and Fourth Symphony en enticing prospect....

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Release Date: September 27, 2024

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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...

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Release Date: August 16, 2024

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Accordionist Philippe Thuriot doesn't only play the repertoire that is specifically composed for his instrument. In the past, he has transposed the music of Francois Couperin and Johann Sebastian Bach for his instrument.�Scarlatti's Sonatas are�baroque...

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Release Date: August 09, 2024