Enjoy new music with our classical music chart for this week. Our weekly selections are based on sales numbers and simply what albums we love and think you NEED to hear.
For the complete top 20, tune into Classical Chartz with the New Classical FM’s Mark Wigmore every Saturday from 3-5 p.m.
The Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Raphael Payare hold the line at No. 5 with with recording of Strauss and Mahler, while the top two, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Leonidas Kavakos (Beethoven for Three) and Il Volo (Ad Astra) drop to 3 and 4 respectively. They make room for the rapidly rising Daniil Trifonov & Sergei Babayan (Rachmaninoff for Two) and Hauser (Classic II) to climb to Nos. 1 and 2.
Three new releases make their debut in the Classical Chartz Top Ten this week. Yundi’s Mozart: The Sonata Project, jumps up to No. 8 from 15. Yundi, aka Yundi Li, has been fascinated by the music of Mozart since the age of 7 (perhaps child prodigies think alike?) His international career was launched Nader winning First Prize at the 14th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2000. His latest recording includes Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 8 (K.310), the Piano Sonata No. 11 (K.331) Alla Turca, the Fantasia in C minor, K. 475, and the Piano Sonata No. 14 (K.457).
Leonidas Kavakos adds a second release to his Top Ten count for the week with the Bach Violin Concertos, which lands at No. 9 after climbing from No. 12 last week. He’s joined by the Apollon Ensemble for the recording of Bach’s four concertos for solo violin, characterized by both the Italian and German styles of playing of the era. Kavakos performs with a bow that has been crafted along the lines of work done by early 18th century master maker François Tourte.
André Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra enter the Classical Chartz for the first time at the No. 10 position. The release is called Love Is All Around (Live), and captures violinist André Rieu and the orchestra at an open-air concert in Maastricht’s historic medieval square in the Netherlands in 2023. On the program is a mix of pop songs, show tunes, and classical favourites, delivered with Rieu’s signature energy and style.
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