Chamber Music & Recitals

The present release is Ivo Pogorelich's first full Chopin studio recording in over 20 years. The legendary pianist Ivo Pogorelich has marked the classical music scene of our time. His unique musical talent and innovative approach have placed him among...

The present release is both a continuation and the crowning of a project to record all of Ludwig van Beethoven's five sonatas for piano and cello. It features three of them: in F major Op. 5 No. 1, in C major Op. 102 No. 1 and in D major Op. 102 No. 2...

The present release is an outstanding recording of Handel's Concerti Grossi. Founded in 1959 by Neville Marriner and a group of London musicians, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields has long been one of the world's leading chamber orchestras...

The present release is an innovative and sensitive encounter between poetry and music: a double album with Robert Schumann's song cycle "Dichterliebe" in an unusual arrangement for cello and guitar. Album 1 features the music, and album 2 features the...

The present release is an album of piano transcriptions of works by Johann Strauss I and II, Kritz Kreisler, and Franz Schubert. The arrangers include great pianists such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Moriz Rosenthal, and Carl Tausig. Dr. Muen Wei, a native of...

The present release is a world premiere recording of the complete edition of the Sacri Musicali Affetti by Barbara Strozzi, a figure of great importance among the various women musicians of the seventeenth century. Her works went on printed editions for...

The present release is a wonderful concert by Mohammad Rez? Shadjari?n, master of Persian classical singing, both composer and performer at the same time: inspired improvisation, poems chosen with great taste, subtle instrumental accompaniment...

The present release is a truly ravishing program for violin and orchestra! Ukrainian born Solomiya Ivakhiv is an accomplished concert violinist, chamber musician, collaborator, educator, and champion of new music. Concertizing internationally, her wide...

The present release is a special live recording of the Staatskapelle Dresden's 1st symphony concert of the season in the Semperoper on September 1, 2017. Christian Thielemann's engagement with the symphonic work of Anton Bruckner takes him in Vol. 52 to...

The present release is a set with which Challenge Classics intends to make it's contribution to the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. It is a unique and completely original collection in the panorama of today's...

The present release is a portrait of an underestimated Baroque composer who had great influence on the development of musical style in middle Germany up to J. S. Bach, Samuel Scheidt. The Basel Madrigalists are an ensemble of 16-24 trained singers, which...

The present release is a new recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Goldberg Variations', performed by world-renowned musician, Malcolm Archer on a harpsichord built by Alan Gotto. Malcolm Archer has had a distinguished career in church music which has...