Browse: Challenge Classics (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Challenge Classics.
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Wolf, H: Italienisches Liederbuch
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julia Kleiter (soprano) & Hilko Dumno (piano)
Both Prégardien and Kleiter (with their excellent pianist Hilko Dumno aiding and abetting) offer larger than life portrayals...Prégardien, with his baritonic tenor, finds the measure of each... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Buxtehude: Complete Chamber Music Catherine Manson (violin), David Rabinovich (violin), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba), Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Christine Sticher (violone); Mike Fentross (lute)
Koopman has assembled an ensemble of intelligent and intensely musical collaborators, and their individual styles mesh well. Moreover, the recorded sound is warm and intimate, but still clear,... — More…
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Freedom - Handel: Oratorio Arias Oscar Verhaar (countertenor), La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross
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From Mannheim to Berlin - Sonatas for Violoncello Piccolo
Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde, Victor Garcia Garcia, Artem Belogurov (piano), Franz Benda
Dostaler-Lalonde plays [the sonatas] exquisitely, with a beguiling lyrical tone quality, elegant phrasing, and flawless technique. The sound world of the cello piccolo, with its range from a... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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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... — More…
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[The 'Harmonious Blacksmith'] gives Koopman scope to demonstrate his virtuosity and his innate exuberance. For the most part, though, his playing seems to have acquired a degree of restraint... — More…
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There is much to admire in these performances. Gambist Sofia Diniz presents these sonatas with grace and generosity of sound. There’s an enticing liveliness to her articulation. — More…
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MacMillan: St. Luke Passion
RecommendedPeter Dicke (organ)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Choir & National Youth Choir, Markus Stenz
The music is good at portraying the extremes of almighty power. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th April 2015
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Performing on two copies of Stefanini and Ruckers harpsichords, Ton Koopman completes the exquisite solo oeuvre by Buxtehude with captivating élan. For a musician with somewhat precipitous tendencies,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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