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Amstel Tracks NOW!: works by Bach, Brahms, Barber, Ravel, Barber, et al / The Amstel Saxophone Quartet

1 CD / Challenge Classics / 2012-04-10

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (II), chorale prelude for organ (Achtzehn Choräle no 8), BWV 659 (BC K8; Guillermo Lago: Ciudades, for saxophone quartet; Johannes Brahms: Symp...
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Ensemble: Amstel Quartet

The most colorful saxophone quartet in the world! Old music, new music, popular music, world music - anything goes with Remco Jak, Olivier Sliepen, Bas...continue...
Recording information: Doopsgezinde Kerk, Haarlem (09/27/2011-09/30/2011)....continue...

W.A. Mozart: Sonatas for Four Hands / Kuijken Duo

1 CD / Challenge Classics / 2011-04-12

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for 2 Pianos in D major, K 448 (375a); Sonata for piano, 4 hands in F major, K. 497; Sonata for piano, 4 hands in C major, K. 521

Marie and Veronica Kuijken play historical pianofortes for this recording of Mozart four-hand pieces. The instrument dictates, so to speak, what can and cannot be...continue...
Recording information: Galaxy Studios, Mol, Belgium (12/14/2009-12/16/2009)....continue...

Between Life & Death

2 Super Audio CD / Challenge Classics / 2010-02-09

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, süsser Tod, komm, sel'ge Ruh'!, BWV 478; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 2; Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Rückert Lieder (5); Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 744; Aufl&ou...
Performers: Gees, Michael; Pregardien, Christoph

A selection of compositions ranging over almost two centuries, with eleven compositions and many musical forms. Pregardien and Gees present 22 faces of death in...continue...
Recording information: Galaxy Studios, Mol, Belgium (11/14/2008-11/17/2008)....continue...

Sinfonias from the Enlightenment - Hasse, Graun, CPE Bach, etc / moderntimes_1800

2 CD / Challenge Classics / 2008-06-10

Works: Johann Adolf Hasse: Sinfonia in D major (for Alcide al bivo, festa teatrale), for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 trumpets; Johann Gottlieb Graun: Sinfonia in E flat major, for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bas...

"(These) two discs survey some especially important, and unfamiliar, eighteenth century symphonies, including the jewels in this particular crown: two "new," never before recorded sinfonias...continue...

From Toy Symphony to Peasant Wedding - Leopold & W.A. Mozart / Mathot, Koopman, et al

1 CD / Challenge Classics / 2008-04-08

Works: Leopold Mozart: Divertimento in D major "Peasant Wedding"; Toy Symphony (Cassation), for toys, 2 oboes, 2 horns & strings in G major (formerly K. 63); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Gallimathias musicum, K...
Performers: Mathot, Tini
Conductors: Koopman, Ton
Ensemble: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

All these works have been recorded before, but never so well and never in this context, which reveals the roots of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A...continue...

Sonatas & Variations - M. Danzi, W. Mozart /Lohmann, Schlepp

1 CD / Challenge Classics / 2007-09-04

Works: Margarethe Danzi: Sonata for violin & piano in E flat major, Op. 1/1; Sonata for violin & piano in B flat major, Op. 1/2; Sonata for violin & piano in E major, Op. 1/3; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Varia...
Performers: Lohmann, Antoinette; Schlepp, Vaughan

Margarethe (Marchand) Danzi (1768-1800) was the wife of the well-known composer Franz Danzi, and a fine musician herself who was discounted as a composer due...continue...

Mozart: Violin Concertos / Leertouwer, La Borea Amsterdam

2 CD / Challenge Classics / 2007-01-09

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Violin no 1 in B flat major, K. 207; Concerto for Violin no 2 in D major, K. 211; Concerto for Violin no 3 in G major, K. 216; Rondo for Violin and Orchestra no ...
Performers: Leertouwer, Johannes
Conductors: Leertouwer, Johannes
Ensemble: La Borea Amsterdam

A definitive recording of Mozart's complete violin concertos performed on period instruments of the composer's era. Although they have stood for centuries now as among...continue...

Live at the St. Bavo / Jacques van Oortmerssen

1 CD / Challenge Classics / 2006-09-12

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue for Organ in D major, BWV 532; Wir glauben all an einen Gott (IV), chorale prelude for organ (by J. L. Krebs, not JSB), BWV 740; Felix Mendelssohn: Sonatas (6...
Performers: Oortmerssen, Jacques van

Born in 1950, Jacques van Oortmerssen has been a professor of organ at universities in Amsterdam, Goteborg, Lyon, and Helsinki, and has been a guest...continue...

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet / Kuijken String Quartet

1 Super Audio CD / Challenge Classics / 2005-10-11

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major, K 581; Quintet for Horn and Strings in E flat major, K 407 (386c); Quartet for Oboe and Strings in F major, K 370 (368b)
Performers: Beaugiraud, Patrick; Coppola, Lorenzo; Fernandez, Francois; Kuijken, Sigiswald; Kuijken, Wieland [Cello, Viola da Gamba]; Madeuf, Pierre-Yves; Thiers, Marleen

"These are performances to evoke an ideal vision of 18th century chamber music-making: friends playing together for mutual enjoyment, souding spontaneous and unaffected. The recording,...continue...

Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn: Lieder / Holl, Lutz

1 CD / Challenge Classics / 2004-06-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Abendempfindung, K 523; Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt, K 619; Franz Joseph Haydn: Ein kleines Haus, song for voice & keyboard, H. 26a/45; Lieder f&uu...
Performers: Holl, Robert; Lutz, David

Mozart: Piano Concertos 19 & 20 / Lugansky, Markiz, et al

1 CD / Challenge Classics / 2001-08-07

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 20 in D minor, K 466; Concerto for Piano no 19 in F major, K 459
Performers: Lugansky, Nikolai [Piano]
Conductors: Markiz, Lev
Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra