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.
Max Richter holds on to the top spot on this week’s Classical Chartz Top Ten with In A Landscape. Emily D’Angelo’s Freezing and Jonas Kaufmann’s Puccini Love Affairs exchange spots from last week to land at No. 3 and No. 2 respectively. Hard on their heels, the Danish String Quartet’s Keel Road comes in at No. 4, with Augustin Hadelich’s American Road Trip settling in at No.5 for the week.
There are three newcomers to the Classical Chartz Top Ten this week. Fazil Say and his release Oiseaux Tristes makes the climb from No. 13 last week to land at No. 10. The Turkish pianist’s new album of French keyboard music takes its name from one of the movements of Ravel’s Miroirs suite. Released on Warner Classics, the album also includes Debussy’s Suite bergamasque, along with a set of five pieces by François Couperin.
Two releases are new to the Classical Chartz altogether. Tafelmusik & new Principal Guest Conductor Rachel Podger’s new recording of Haydn Symphonies No. 43 & 49 takes the No. 9 spot for this week. In an interview with LvT, Podger had this to say: “You might be forgiven for thinking that Haydn’s 106 symphonies might all sound rather similar to each other, since there are so very many! But there is something different about each one of them; Haydn’s musical mind was a well of ideas and tunes, often full of wit and vivaciousness, often charming and melodic, often dramatic and rustic (as with his early symphonies, and very much the case with no 49).”
Also new to the Chartz, pianist Igor Levit’s simply named Brahms with the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Christian Thielemann makes a landing at No. 7. The triple album package includes both of Brahms Piano Concertos, along with the Vienna Phil accompanying Levit in a Brahms waltz as an encore. It’s the first joint recording for Levit and Thielemann. The two met when Levit stepped in at the last minute for another pianist who’d become ill, and performed a Mozart concerto with Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden back in 2015. The two hit it off instantly as artists, and the new recording is planned to be the first of many collaborations.
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