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.
467 products
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![Thomascantors in Dialogue]()
On SaleThomascantors in Dialogue$11.99 Regular price
$18.99This is an album that portrays an imaginary weird audition that took place in Leipzig in 1723. After Johann Kuhnau's death the Thomaskirche was in search of a new Kantor. For different reasons Telemann, Fasch...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 18, 2022
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![Forster, Graun, & Quantz: Horn Concertos]()
On SaleForster, Graun, & Quantz: Horn Concertos$13.99 Regular price
$20.99Fr�derick Franssen writes: "From among the enormous choice of horn repertoire available in the early stages of my study of the instrument, my interest was piqued by the very earliest horn music. The music from...
Format: SACD
Release Date: March 18, 2022
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![Jeths: The Tell-Tale Heart / Little, Banse, Gaffigan, Leeuw, Zweden]()
On SaleJeths: The Tell-Tale Heart / Little, Banse, Gaffigan, Leeuw, Zweden$11.99 Regular price
$18.99Mors Aeterna for orchestra, which was premiered in November 2015 during the NTR Saturday Matinee series, narrates a quest for stillness, a piece of pervasive calm, of gentle sounds which were intended to create the...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 11, 2022
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![Hello Darkness: Songs on Death from Monteverdi to Eilish / Vermeulen, Schulze]()
On SaleHello Darkness: Songs on Death from Monteverdi to Eilish / Vermeulen, Schulze$11.99 Regular price
$18.99Dedicating an album to the dark side of the Lied might seem inappropriate in these times of Covid, climate change and refugee crises, but as a mezzo-soprano Olivia has always been drawn to the darker...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 25, 2022
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![Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Cembalo obbligato, Vol. 1 / Terakado, Bonizzoni]()
On SaleBach: Sonatas for Violin & Cembalo obbligato, Vol. 1 / Terakado, Bonizzoni$11.99 Regular price
$18.99Johann Sebastian Bach developed a new style, cembalo obbligato, where the right hand of the keyboard plays as a melody instrument and is given the same importance as the violin, flute or other solo instrument....
Format: CD
Release Date: February 11, 2022
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![Wagenseil: Six Sonatas for Violin, Cello, & Violone]()
On SaleWagenseil: Six Sonatas for Violin, Cello, & Violone$11.99 Regular price
$18.99The path traced on this album, with music by Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777), and on following ones has the undoubted merit of introducing us to some composers considered “minor” compared to Haydn and Mozart. They...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 04, 2022
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![Aumann: Chamber Music in the Abbey of St. Florian / Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria]()
On SaleAumann: Chamber Music in the Abbey of St. Florian / Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria$11.99 Regular price
$18.99Violinist Gunar Letzbor writes: “Franz Josef Aumann was born in the Austrian town of Traismauer in 1728 and studied music in Vienna, where he came across many important musicians of his time. It has not...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 14, 2022
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![Marcello: Amanti - Cantatas for Bass / Foresti, Ensemble Due Venti]()
On SaleMarcello: Amanti - Cantatas for Bass / Foresti, Ensemble Due Venti$13.99 Regular price
$21.99In the Italian society of the early eighteenth century, the musical genre of the chamber cantata was popular as a refined form of entertainment. The chamber cantata is a relatively short composition, consisting of a...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 14, 2022
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![Korngold: String Quartets 2 & 3 / Alma Quartet]()
On SaleKorngold: String Quartets 2 & 3 / Alma Quartet$11.99 Regular price
$18.99Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was a genius. Naturally he was most widely known and rewarded as one of the founding composers of Hollywood film music, but he is not a particularly well-known composer in the...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 19, 2021
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![Schumann: Love's Spring / Steffani, Kozena, Huber]()
On SaleSchumann: Love's Spring / Steffani, Kozena, Huber$11.99 Regular price
$18.99Raoul Steffani writes: “The album you have here is the culmination of a long-cherished desire – a program devoted to both Robert and Clara Schumann and the musical dialogue that blossomed between them during the...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 19, 2021
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![Bach: V1 - Famous Cantatas / Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir]()
On SaleBach: V1 - Famous Cantatas / Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir$8.99 Regular price
$13.99Bach's sacred music written before he went to Leipzig, including all the works from the Weimar period, are often lumped together as "early" cantatas. This is misleading and ultimately inaccurate, since Bach was already 38...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 19, 2021
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![Mozart: Piano Sonatas / Duo Morat-Fergo]()
On SaleMozart: Piano Sonatas / Duo Morat-Fergo$11.99 Regular price
$18.99Although being technically very different instruments, we are convinced that the romantic guitar and the fortepiano share the same aesthetics. This was proven to us for the first time when we finally recorded our Schubert...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 12, 2021
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![Schumann: Complete Works for Cello / Poucke]()
On SaleSchumann: Complete Works for Cello / Poucke$11.99 Regular price
$18.99Ella van Poucke. Winner of the prestigious Premio Chigiana 2017 and recently awarded the Grachtenfestival Prize, the 27 year old Dutch cellist belongs to the top rank of today's generation of cellists. She is the...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 22, 2021
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![Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 / Haitink, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic]()
On SaleBruckner: Symphony No. 7 / Haitink, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic$13.99 Regular price
$20.99Bernard Haitink was born and educated in Amsterdam. His conducting career began at the Netherlands Radio where in 1957 he became the Chief Conductor of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. The links between Bernard Haitink and...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 15, 2021
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![QUELQUES MOTS D'AMOUR]()
On SaleQUELQUES MOTS D'AMOUR$11.99 Regular price
$18.99Philippe Elan writes: "Following my symphonic chanson album with Het Residentie Orkest, this new recording "Quelques mots d'amour" takes me back to the roots of my singing, accompanied by Reyer Zwart with whom i have...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 15, 2021
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