CHALLENGE CLASSICS

The album "Aufgelebt" is all about revival, rebirth and recreation, the promise of new beginnings. Beethoven worked on his Piano Concerto No. 4 and the Op. 61a (piano version of a violin concerto) in...

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...

The young Van Baerle Trio, made of stunning soloists - Hannes Minnaar on piano, Maria Milstein on violin and Gideon den Herder on cello - have accomplished the Beethoven's Piano Trio recordings. Now,...

In 1799, after having made a name for himself with major compositions, but before finishing his first symphony, Beethoven wrote a work for mixed strings and winds. This piece, the Septet op. 20,...

Beethoven Complete Piano Trios 1 Super-Audio CD

Chamber music arrangements of symphonies were very common in the late 18th and early 19th century, and it is probably true that a large proportion of the people who were familiar with the symphonic...

Berlin / Pierpoint / Gruber / Rousseau / Kuhr On Christmas Night CD1. Il Est N? Le Divin Enfant 2. White Christmas 3. Nu Zijt Wellekome 4. On Christmas Night All Christians Sing 5. The First Nowell 6...

Korngold's Violin Concerto was completed in 1945. This is a beautiful, late Romantic work that harks back clearly to Korngold's earlier compositional style, when he was a younger man living in Vienna...

This is the second release focused on Olivier Darbellay, one of the foremost horn players of our time. The previous album was a refined selection of Lieder and Songs for tenor, horn and piano, where...

Brahms / Hague Philharmonic / Willem De Vriend Brahms: Serenade No 1 / Variations On A Theme Super-Audio CD1. Serenade No. 1 in D Major Op. 11 - Allegro Molto 2. Serenade No. 1 in D Major Op. 11 -...

Brahms / Oliemans / Hague Philharmonic Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45 Super-Audio CD

Britten / Pregardien / Gees Matter Of Heart CD1. Britten: The Heart of the Matter - Prologue 2. Britten: The Heart of the Matter - Reading: The Earth of My Heart Was Broken and Gaped Low 3. Britten:...