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.

  • Zelenka: Trio Sonatas ZWV 181; Ghosts
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    $12.99 $19.99

    The six trio sonatas recorded on this CD present the largest group of Zelenka's chamber music for a single ensemble. Despite their high quality they were forgotten for centuries; they were only rediscovered a few...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 19, 2024

  • Romberg: Grand Sonatas for Harp & Cello
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    $11.99 $18.99

    Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841), a German composer much admired by Beethoven, was a great innovator in the cello technique. His Sonatas for harp and cello op.5 are a rare example of music for such combination of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 10, 2024

  • Mascitti: Sonate a Tre - Opera Prima
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    $11.99 $18.99

    Fourth release by Matteo Cicchitti and his Ensemble Elegentia on Challenge Classics. World premiere recording of Triosonatas op.1 by Michele Mascitti. The work was published in Paris in 1704. In his time Mascitti was particularly...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 10, 2024

  • Feast of the Swan - Den Bosch Choirbook, Vol. 4
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    $13.99 $20.99

    The present program presents the kind of music that might have been heard at the Feast of the Swan, an annual banquet held by the Confraternity of Our Illustrious Lady in ’s-Hertogenbosch, sometime in the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 10, 2024

  • Holt: Canto Ostinato / Scholtes & Janssens Piano Duo
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    $11.99 $18.99

    In 1963, Simeon ten Holt wrote in his diary that he had it in mind that a concert should be an ongoing performance, with visitors wandering in and out at will. Ten Holt was also...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 10, 2024

  • Richter: Recomposed - Vivaldi's Four Seasons / Rowland, Stift Festival Orchestra
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    $11.99 $18.99

    Max Richter's The Recomposed Four Seasons has become an iconic piece. Richter discarded about three quarters of Vivaldi's original and substituted his own music. The new version sounds a little hipper, lighter on its feet...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 19, 2024

  • Mozart: The First Vienna Concertos - nos. 11, 12 & 13 / Ben Kim, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
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    Third volume of Mozart Concertos with Ben Kim and Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. Concertos No. 11, 12, and 13 were Mozart’s first Concertos written upon moving to Vienna from Salzburg. In a letter addressed to his...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 29, 2024

  • Handel: Freedom - Oratorio Arias / Verhaar, Fentross, La Sfera Armoniosa
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    Freedom is a dominant theme in the English oratorios of Georg Friedrich Handel. These grand works are mostly based on biblical stories that deal with resistance, suppression, captivity and, finally, freedom. Debut album by young...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 22, 2024

  • Schumann: Symphonies 1 & 2 / Vriend, Stavanger Symphony
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    $11.99 $18.99

    After Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert, Jan Willem de Vriend starts a new symphonic cycle dedicated to Schumann. This is the first recording with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra both for the conductor and for Challenge Classics. More...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 08, 2024

  • J. & M. Haydn: Concerti for Violin, Viola & Harpsichord / Terakado, Amano, Pearls in Baroque
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    This disc couples the last Violin Concerto (1769) by Joseph Haydn with the Double Concerto for Viola and Harpsichord (1762) by his brother Michael: two rarely recorded early Classical gems. This is the debut recording...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 23, 2024

  • Bononcini: Cantate per Contralto con Violini / Ars Antiqua Austria
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    $11.99 $18.99

    Fourteenth disc by Ars Antiqua Austria and Gunar Lezbor for Challenge Classics. World Premiere Recordings of three Cantatas for countertenor and violins. Alois Muhlbacher is one of most sought-after countertenors today: in 2023 has engagement...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 16, 2024

  • Brahms & C. Schumann: The Muse / Nino Gvetadze
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    $11.99 $18.99

    We are proud to present the fifth disc by Nino Gvetadze on Challenge Classics. After Chopin, Scott, Schumann and Beethoven, we get to Brahms. Nino has selected three masterpieces from three different periods of Brahms's...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 09, 2024

  • Schenck: L’echo du Danube - Music for Viola da Gamba / Diniz
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    $13.99 $21.99

    L’Echo du Danube is the poetic title given by Johann Schenck to his collection of pieces for viola da gamba, first published around 1703/04 as Opus 9 in Amsterdam by Estienne Roger — the most...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 02, 2024

  • Fesch, Gent, Noordt & Wassenaer: Unico
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    This disc is devoted to the Dutch music for recorder during the Baroque era. The music is highly original, although we can feel a strong influence by contemporary Italian composers like Corelli. Teun Wisse plays...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: November 24, 2023

  • Bach: Geistliche Lieder / Koopman, Mertens
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    Klaus Mertens had long been wanting to record the ‘Geistliche Lieder’ by Johann Sebastian Bach from Schemelli’s Musicalisches Gesangbuch (1736). Ton Koopman had been looking for the right program to showcase the beautiful Teschemacher chamber...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 17, 2023

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