Challenge Classics Label Sale 2025
Over 450 titles from the Netherlands-based Challenge Classics are on sale now at ArkivMusic! Their extensive catalogue offers much in the way of chamber music, but also contains a number of excellent recordings of the ‘lied-repertoire' and symphonic music.
Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
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Challenge ClassicsBononcini: Cantate per Contralto con Violini / Ars Antiqua Austria
Fourteenth disc by Ars Antiqua Austria and Gunar Lezbor for Challenge Classics. World Premiere Recordings of three Cantatas for countertenor and violins....
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Challenge ClassicsBrahms & C. Schumann: The Muse / Nino Gvetadze
We are proud to present the fifth disc by Nino Gvetadze on Challenge Classics. After Chopin, Scott, Schumann and Beethoven, we get...
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Challenge ClassicsSchenck: L’echo du Danube - Music for Viola da Gamba / Diniz
L’Echo du Danube is the poetic title given by Johann Schenck to his collection of pieces for viola da gamba, first published...
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Challenge ClassicsFesch, Gent, Noordt & Wassenaer: Unico
This disc is devoted to the Dutch music for recorder during the Baroque era. The music is highly original, although we can...
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Challenge ClassicsBach: Geistliche Lieder / Koopman, Mertens
Klaus Mertens had long been wanting to record the ‘Geistliche Lieder’ by Johann Sebastian Bach from Schemelli’s Musicalisches Gesangbuch (1736). Ton Koopman...
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Challenge ClassicsBeethoven: Complete Piano Concertos / Minnaar, de Vries, Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
Despite the very large number of recordings already made of this musical corpus, Minnaar and de Vriend have proved that they have...
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On SaleChallenge ClassicsLICHT! 800 Years of German Lied / A.L. Richter, Bushakevitz
With the present programme we want to explore the history of the German Lied throughout a period spanning some 800 years, from...
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Challenge ClassicsMozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14 / Lazić, de Vriend, Bergen Philharmonic
A new, great project by Challenge Classics and Jan Willem de Vriend. A new, inspiring collaboration with a first-rate pianist, Dejan Lazić,...
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On SaleChallenge ClassicsBach: Weihnachtsoratorium / Kuijken, La Petite Bande
Reissue. Originally released in 2014. The audio clip below associated with this release is from the original issuance of this title. -...
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Challenge ClassicsAuerbach: Milking Darkness / Delta Piano Trio
A 50 years old birthday hommage to one of today leading composers: Lera Auerbach. The disc is focused on two Piano Trios...
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Challenge ClassicsKorngold: String Quartet No. 1; Piano Quintet / Eckardstein, Alma Quartet
Second and last volume of Krongold’s complete String Quartets survey by the Alma Quartets. The disc contains the First Quartet (composed in...
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Challenge ClassicsWassenaer: VI Concerti Armonici / Fentross
A live recording of van Wassenaer’s Concerti Armonici by the well established Dutch ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa. These are beautiful Concerti in...
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Challenge ClassicsFrom Mannheim to Berlin - Sonatas for cello piccolo / Dostaler-Lalonde
Here is a unique disc devoted to cello Galant music composed mid-18th Century in the areas of Mannheim and Berlin. Played on...
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Challenge ClassicsLeeuw: Der nachtliche Wanderer; Abschied / Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
After our Bruckner/Haitink (CC 72895), we are very proud to present the result of a new collaboration with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic...
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On SaleChallenge ClassicsGlazunov & Saint-Saens: Violin Concertos / Koelman, Haug, Sinfonietta Schaffhausen
Challenge Classics violinist Rudolf Koelman pays a tribute to his teacher Jascha Heifetz. Two late romantic Concertos, full of pathos, rarely performed...

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