Challenge Classics
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In Heaven
Songs for a Trip to Space
Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo), Jan Philip Schulze (piano/synthesizer)
An extraordinary sonic journey. This duo consistently delivers inventive concepts yet their deeper artistic purpose never eclipses their light touch. Schulze's virtuosic playing matches Vermeulen's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2026, Vocal Choice
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Buxtehude - Organ Works 5
Opera Omnia X
Ton Koopman (The Bielfeldt organ (1736), St. Wilhadi, Stade, Germany)
For those new to Buxtehude's organ works both the programming and the instrument make these discs the ideal hopping on point. Plaintive chorale elaborations supply contemplative respite from... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Editor's Choice
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Torelli: 12 Concerti da Camera for Two Violins and Basso Continuo, Op. 2
Pietro Battistoni, Rosso Verona Baroque Ensemble, Corinne Raymond-Jarczyk, Cristina Vidoni, Margherita Burattini, Edoardo Valorz
The performances, by an Italian group making their debut recording, sparkle…The Rosso Verona Baroque Ensemble produce a sweet but incisive sound in a church acoustic that adds bloom without... —
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a kindly gentleness of touch and a sensitive shaping of dynamic, helped by a recording that gives the piano just the right amount of space, generates a warmth and humanity that seeks only the... —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 12, Rondo for Piano in D Major, K. 485
Dejan Lazic (piano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
the combination of artistry and intelligence customarily exhibited by Lazić is its own reward, and the latest in this gradually unfurling series of Mozart recordings is sure to appeal far beyond... —
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Vivaldi: Concertos for Oboe, Strings and Basso Continuo
Pauline Oostenrijk (oboe)
Baroque Academy of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
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The solos and duos on this radiant release from Fedorov, Daniel Rowland and Maja Bogdanović are in themselves powerfully intimate, and are imbued with still greater intensity in light of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Chamber Choice
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