Take pleasure in new music with our classical music chart for this week. Our weekly alternatives are primarily based on gross sales numbers and easily what albums we love and suppose you NEED to listen to.
For the entire prime 20, tune into Classical Chartz with the New Classical FM’s Mark Wigmore each Saturday from 3-5 p.m.
Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu made a splashy debut on the Classical Chartz simply final week, touchdown at No. 9. This week, he continues his meteoric rise to take over the No. 1 spot. His newest No. 1 album, The Sound of Heaven, comes on the heels of final 12 months’s Love Is All Round, which made the Classical Chartz 2024 High 20.
Andrea Bocelli (Duets (thirtieth Anniversary)), Jon Batiste (Beethoven Blues), and François Dompierre (Requiem) every drop a step to flesh out the highest of the Classical Chartz at Nos. 2, 3 and 4 respectively.
Two newcomers make the climb into the High Ten this week. The Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti’s New Yr’s Live performance 2025 lands at No. 7, up from 13 final week. The live performance was carried out and recorded on January 1, 2025 within the Golden Corridor of the Musikverein in Vienna, and this system is a Strauss (largely) extravaganza, together with works by Josef, Johann, and Eduard. The outliers are Josef Hellmesberger’s Fidele Brüder. Marsch aus der Operette “Das Veilchenmädl”, and Constanze Geiger’s Ferdinandus-Walzer, op. 10. It’s a eye-catching choice of music for the house crowd from the house staff, and Muti appears to have captured the spirit of town, as supposed.
Varied artists contribute to Fragments II – Lili Boulanger, which makes the leap from No. 12 final week to No. 8 this week. The Fragments I album launched the annual initiative by Deutsche Grammophon final 12 months. In it, 12 main digital artists are invited to answer a selected composer. For Fragments I, it was Erik Satie.
Fragments II focuses on the work of Lili Boulanger. Lili Boulanger was a younger girl dwelling in a time of uncertainty and battle. She grew up in Paris, and after early coaching on a number of devices, determined to change into a composer whereas she was nonetheless in her teenagers. She grew to become the primary girl composer to win the coveted Prix de Rome on the age of 24.
Sadly, that’s the identical 12 months that she died of tuberculosis, leaving about 50 items of music.
The concept for the DG challenge is to take her work and produce it into a up to date focus. There are 14 tracks on Fragments II, that includes artists like Niklas Paschburg, Fejká, Rodriguez Jr., Joplyn, and Anja Schneider, who show that her music nonetheless resonates at this time.
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