CHALLENGE CLASSICS

In his first album for Challenge Classics, Sergio Foresti, one of leading baroque baritones of our days, sings a subtly thought-out selection of arias written for Giuseppe Maria Boschi, the most...

De La Rue / Stratton Bull / Wim Diepenhorst Pierre De La Rue: Missa Cum Jocunditate Super-Audio CD1. Introitus - Salve Sancta Parens 2. Missa Cum Jocunditate - Kyrie 3. Missa Cum Jocunditate - Gloria...

Debussy / Brownridge Preludes / Book 1 & 2 Super-Audio CD1. Preludes Book 1 - Danseuses de Delphes 2. Preludes Book 1 - Voiles 3. Preludes Book 1 - Le Vent Dans la Plaine 4. Preludes Book 1 - Les...

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and yet cannot remain silent, wrote Victor Hugo in 1864. Half a century later, his words had never felt more pertinent. Every composer writing...

Debussy / Manacorda La Mer Super-Audio CD

Valentina Toth writes: "Although they were not musically trained, my parents taught me to love Bartok and Kodaly. I treasured their music from the time I was young, and only became acquainted with...

Druyf / Various Luistercursus Opera CD

Charlotte Haesen, born in Amsterdam in 1987 and raised in the French-speaking part of Belgium, studied jazz singing at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. On a sunny Saturday afternoon, she sang...

Quite often, a work becomes a journey of discovery towards a certain origin, translated into sound. Martin, Mansurian and Dvork composed three such colorful works for piano trio - voyages of...

This is an album that portrays an imaginary weird audition that took place in Leipzig in 1723. After Johann Kuhnau's death the Thomaskirche was in search of a new Kantor. For different reasons...

The conditions under which Schubert's art of the song developed into a kaleidoscopically incandescent spectrum that crossed over genres and the institutionally set, historical boundaries disappear...

Faure / Hannes Minnaar Piano Music Super-Audio CD