ARC Music Label Sale - Winter 2025

Explore folk and classical music from around the globe from the top world music labels — ARC Music, Naxos World, and bendigedig — now at discount prices.

Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, March 25, 2025.

  • Vol. 1 - Folk Songs of Qinghai and Gansu
    Vol. 1 - Folk Songs of Qinghai and Gansu

    $16.99

    This release kicks off a new series exploring China's rich and diverse musical heritage. The songs featured in this recording are folk songs of the five minority ethnic groups of Qinghai and Gansu provinces -...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 13, 2019

  • Best Of Welsh Choirs / Various
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    Best Of Welsh Choirs / Various

    $10.99 Regular price $16.99

    This new release features a varied collection of beautiful music from Welsh choirs, both a cappella and with instrumental accompaniments. This album presents a wide repertoire, covering three decades of choirs formed in Wales from...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 23, 2019

  • The Gambia Sessions
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    The Gambia Sessions

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Musicians from the UK travel to The Gambia in this unique cultural exchange. Under the guidance of Gambian percussionist and vocalist Musa Mboob, musicians from both countries create an inspired, energetic, tribal, West African soul...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 23, 2019

  • Music From Peru & Ecuador / Various
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    Music From Peru & Ecuador / Various

    $10.99 Regular price $16.99

    Alpamayo (named after the most beautiful snow-covered mountain of Ancash, Peru) perform rhythms of South America that have been danced to in their country for generations. Alpamayo have gathered a huge repertoire of original compositions...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 23, 2019

  • Sounds of Africa: Mozambique / Yinguica
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    Sounds of Africa: Mozambique / Yinguica

    $10.99 Regular price $16.99

    Marrabenta is music from the beautiful country of Mozambique, situated on the African east coast. Mozambique was a Portuguese colony from 1505 to 1975, and its music reflects many cultures. It also reflects the struggle...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 23, 2019

  • Chinese Festivals / Various
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    Chinese Festivals / Various

    $10.99 Regular price $16.99

    Traditional festivals are an important part of the culture and history of China, each with their own customs, origins and celebrations. This special collection celebrates music of a variety of these festivals held throughout the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 23, 2019

  • Rebetika & Greek Popular Music
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    Rebetika & Greek Popular Music

    $10.99 Regular price $16.99

    Rebetika is a type of Greek urban blues - bouzouki music, influenced by oriental elements. The lyrics reflect poverty, pain, oppression, unrequited love, and bitterness. Greek popular music as we know it today is original...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 26, 2019

  • Music of Northern Cyprus
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    Music of Northern Cyprus

    $8.99 Regular price $13.99

    The YEKSAD folk ensemble perform popular traditional songs and instrumental pieces from the Turkish side of Cyprus, an island in the eastern part of the Mediterranean, south of Turkey and west of Syria. The people...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 26, 2019

  • Journey to Asia
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    Journey to Asia

    $10.99 Regular price $16.99

    The music of Asia and the Far East is easily distinguishable. This release is a musical exploration of Asia, taking in cultural treasures from nineteen countries of the world’s largest continent, including energizing Chinese New...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 26, 2019

  • Öngtupqa - Sacred Music of the Hopi Tribe
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    Öngtupqa - Sacred Music of the Hopi Tribe

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Recorded inside the Desert View Watchtower on the South Rim of Grand Canyon in Arizona, this collection of American Indian songs celebrates the most ancient sounds to emerge from ongtupqa (the traditional Hopi name for...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 26, 2019

  • The Sound of Silk: Chinese Strings / Li Xiangting, Cheng Yu
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    The Sound of Silk: Chinese Strings / Li Xiangting, Cheng Yu

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    The guqin zither and pipa lute are the two oldest and most celebrated traditional Chinese stringed instruments, both with over two thousand years’ history. Their musical tradition is closely liked with the self-cultivation of literati...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 28, 2019

  • Bouzouki: The Sound of Greece
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    Bouzouki: The Sound of Greece

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Michael Terzis is one of the most important contemporary Greek composers. He studied piano and music theory at the Macedonian Conservatory in Thessaloniki and in Athens with A. Ainian and K. Chronopoulos. He started his...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 28, 2019

  • Calypso Legends
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    Calypso Legends

    $10.99 Regular price $16.99

    The first mention of calypso comes from a dance described by Abbe Masse in 1882. Otherwise, most scholars who have tried to trace the story of calypso agree that the word itself is not connected...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 28, 2019

  • Samba Brazil
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    Samba Brazil

    $10.99 Regular price $16.99

    The Samba is the most typical and recognizable music from Brazil. With roots in Africa stemming from the slave trade, samba as it is known today has it's origins in Rio de Janeiro. Samba isn't...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 28, 2019

  • Times of Maharajas
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    Times of Maharajas

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    The era of the Maharajas was a time of bejeweled kings, opulent palaces filled with the finest art, and a rich cultural tradition of Rajasthan- the land of the kings. The DHOAD Gypsies of Rajasthan...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 28, 2019