CHALLENGE CLASSICS

While offering little suggestion of the symphonic mastery he would attain less than a decade later, the First Symphony, influenced by Mozart's last symphonies and completed in October 1813, is a...

Schulhoff / Salim / Grams Erwin Schulhoff: Forbidden Music CD

This album offers an overview of four of Peteris Vasks's most iconic works, from the large scale, dramatic Violin Concerto 'Distant light', and the magically dreamy meditation 'Lonely Angel', to his...

Nox, the Latin word for 'night'. In the world of art, the night of Schumann's Nachtst?cke, Robert Zuidam's Nox and Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit creaks open it's doors like a haunted castle for romantic...

Ella van Poucke. Winner of the prestigious Premio Chigiana 2017 and recently awarded the Grachtenfestival Prize, the 27 year old Dutch cellist belongs to the top rank of today's generation of...

Robert Schumann was the most confessional of composers. And many of the songs from his great Liederjahr of 1840 were in essence love songs to Clara Wieck. In them he could express overtly what had...

Raoul Steffani writes: "The album you have here is the culmination of a long-cherished desire - a program devoted to both Robert and Clara Schumann and the musical dialogue that blossomed between...

Schumann / Yarden Scenes & Fantasies CD

Nino Gvetadze writes: "Many years ago, when I studied at the Tbilisi Conservatory in Georgia, I had the privilege to be a student of a prominent Georgian composer, pianist and pedagogue, Nodar...

Shostakovich / Roth / Sanderling / London Symphony Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos Super-Audio CD

Alfred Schnittke and Arvo P?rt have both called the Ukrainian Valentyn Silvestrov "one of the greatest composers of our time". He is also one of it's true originals; though a leading figure in the...

The poems and songs of the Gruuthuse Manuscript originated in Bruges around 1400, and the collection is named after the later owner, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. The songs form the most well-known part of...