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.
Toronto’s Tafelmusik and Rachel Podger take over the No. 1 position this week, rising up from No. 6 last week with their Haydn Symphonies 43 & 49. Close behind, the Vienna Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann back up pianist Igor Levit on Brahms, which rises from No. 4 to take the No. 2 spot this week.
There are three newcomers to the Classical Chartz Top Ten for the week of November 4. Voces8 and their release Nightfall make a modest step up from No. 11 to No. 10. Night time is the theme that unites work by a diverse group of composers on the album, with tracks featuring new choral arrangements of pieces by popular contemporary composers like Ludovico Einaudi, Sigur Rós, Koji Kondo and Max Richter, along with music by Lucy Walker and US composer Taylor Scott Davis.
Two releases make their debut on the Classical Chartz in the Top Ten. Daniil Trifonov and the Philadelphia Orchestra and My American Story: North land at No. 6. Daniil Trifonov, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin offer three CDs worth of American classics by Green, Gershwin, Copland, Young, Newman, Bates and others. It’s intended to be the first of two albums of pieces that have a personal connection for the renowned pianist who has made the US his home for two decades.
He comments on the music, which draws from diverse genres, “[it] has given me access to many perspectives, styles, cultures, places, people, stories and forms of expression that have shaped and moulded my experience of America.” That includes jazz, swing and film music along with minimalism and other genres.
Tenor Andrea Bocelli debuts on the Classical Chartz at No. 8 with Duets (30th Anniversary). The album combines some of his most popular collaborations from over the years, including the iconic Time To Say Goodbye with Sarah Brightman, and others such as Céline Dion and Edith Piaf, along with brand new debuts with the likes of Shania Twain, Chris Stapleton, Matteo Bocelli with Hans Zimmer, and many more.
The uber popular tenor also recently released a documentary about his life and career to celebrate three decades in the biz at the top of his game. It’s made for his fans, sure, but the two-disc set is also a good introduction to his work if there’s anyone still unfamiliar.
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