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. You can check out the full Top 20 here.
Lang Lang‘s Piano Book II, and Where To From by Oscar, Grammy and Emmy-winning Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, retain their hold on the top two spots of the Classical Chartz this week at No. 1 and No. 2 respectively.
At No. 3, Christopher Tin‘s Song Offerings makes the biggest leap of the week, rising from No. 10 last week. Isabelle Faust‘s Telemann Violin Concertos (No. 4 this week), and Alain Lefevre‘s Consolation (No. 5) drop one spot each to make room.
Without Wind/Without Air by Roger Eno is the lone newcomer to the Classical Chartz Top Ten this week, coming in to take the No. 9 position, up from No. 11 last week. It’s the third album for the British composer and multi-instrumentalist on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
The album includes three pieces for solo piano, as well as tracks written for a variety of combinations that include clarinet, guitar, bass, strings, synths, percussion and electronics. Soprano Grace Davidson, Roger himself (on The Moon And The Sea), and his daughters Cecily Eno and Lotti Eno contribute vocals to the release. Other artists on Without Wind/Without Air include Jonathan Stockhammer, who conducts the Scoring Berlin strings on three tracks. Producer Christian Badzura, a friend of Eno’s, co-wrote the opening and closing pieces on the album (Mist and After Rain), and arranges and plays on several of the tracks.
Eno takes the title of his latest release from the lyrics of a song Doubled by the Sun by an Italian band, The Doubling Riders. “My friend Pier Luigi Andreoni and I worked on various projects together in Italy in the 1990s,” says Eno in a media release. “He kindly gave me permission to use this line, which has a wonder-filled, late-summer atmosphere of almost motionlessness and peace.”
He says he was inspired by the poetic aspect of the lyrics, but came also to link the line with a concern over the environment. “I was forced to look at the fragility of species and climate, and their dependence on ‘turns of chance’ and carelessness. This alters ‘without wind, without air’ into a warning, a vision of a terribly bleak future — if any future at all.”
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