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.
There’s no change in the top three of the Classical Chartz this week. At No. 1, Queen Charlotte et al reign supreme with the Bridgerton Season 3: Covers from the Series soundtrack. Next up at No. 2, UK-based trio Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Nicola Benedetti & Benjamin Grosvenor maintain their position with the Beethoven Triple Concerto. The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert, My Favourite Things, maintains its lock on No. 3.
Not far behind them, though, at No. 5, Joe Hisaishi and the Vienna Symphony, with the appropriately titled Joe Hisaishi in Vienna, make a giant leap from No. 15 last week. Released on the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label, it’s a mark of recognition of Hisaishi’s orchestral music, typically overshadowed by his work in films, particularly from Studio Ghibli. The album includes his Symphony No. 2, captured live at the Musikverein with the Vienna Symphony in a world premiere recording. Also on the album is Hisaishi’s piece Viola Saga, performed by French violist Antoine Tamestit. Hisaishi is riding a wave of renewed popularity since the release of the hit Ghibli movie The Boy and the Heron last year, and recently performed in Toronto to a sold-out house.
There’s one other release new to the Top Ten of the Classical Chartz this week: the BBC Philharmonic & John Wilson with Eric Coates, Orchestral Works Vol. 4. It rises more modestly from No. 13 last week to crack the Top Ten at No. 10. Born in 1886, Eric Coates grew up in the mining towns of northern England. He showed an interest in music from an early age, and began studying the violin before switching to viola, which became his principal instrument. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and made a living as a violist until troubles with his hand led him to switch to composition. His music is melodic, and was quite popular during his lifetime. He was one of the first European composers to use syncopation in his music. The recording includes music for TV and radio along with concert pieces, and his morale-boosting wartime compositions, orchestral suites, and more.
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