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 a shuffle at the top of the Classical Chartz this week that sees new releases make the climb to Nos. 1 and 2. At the very top, Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen’s Life jumps from No 4 to No. 1. German tenor Jonas Kaufmann and Puccini Love Affairs make a more modest climb from No. 3 last week to No. 2 this week.
There are two newcomers to the Classical Chartz Top Ten this week. Max Richter’s Landscape makes its debut on the Chartz at the No 7 spot. It’s the ninth album for the British composer and was released on Decca Records. Richter continues in his established (and Uber-popular) post-minimalist style, and in the release, he returns to these he first explored on The Blue Notebooks, his 2004 album.
According to his liner notes, he calls the album’s focus, “reconciling polarities”, which include the natural vs the manmade world. He uses a range of artistic influences that include baroque masters and romantic poetry. Instrumentation includes a string quartet along with grand piano, Hammond organ and MiniMoog keyboard, along with various effects.
Note: If you buy the LP it’s made form green recycles vinyl.
Up from No. 13 last week. Mao Fujita’s 72 Preludes lands at No. 9 this week. The 25 year-old Japanese pianist, a silver medalist at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition, has performed with orchestras throughout Europe and in the US and Asia.
As a follow-up t his Opus Klassik Award-winning release of Mozart’s complete Piano Sonatas, he’s focusing on matching sets of 24 preludes by Frédéric Chopin, Alexander Scriabin and Akio Yashiro. Chopin’s 24 Préludes, completed in 1839, begin with a dive into the prelude across the eras. Alexander Scriabin began his own set of 24 in 1884.
Akio Yashiro, a native of Tokyo, studied with Olivier Messiaen in Paris. His 24 Preludes build on the same cycle of keys used by both Chopin and Scriabin. They were written in 1945, when the composer was 15.
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