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. Check out the full Top 20 here.
Mikhail Pletnev (Chopin & Scriabin Preludes) and Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Vienna Philharmonic (New Year’s Concert 2026) switch places this week over last, with Pletnev taking over the No. 1 spot, and the Vienna Phil landing at No. 2.
Anastasia Kobekina’s Bach Cello Suites and Alice Sara Ott with Johann Johannsson: Piano Works each rise one spot to take over the No 3 and No. 4 spots on the Classical Chartz respectively.
There are two new releases on the Classical Chartz Top Ten this week: The Bridgerton Season 4 Soundtrack (featuring various artists) and the Tacamis Trio’s innovative version of JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
The Bridgerton Season 4 Soundtrack is new to the Classical Chartz, and makes its debut at No. 8. Once again, Toronto’s own Strings From Paris makes an appearance, this time with a string quartet arrangement of DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love (original version by Usher featuring Pitbull), and Ariana Grande’s POV. The soundtrack includes 14 tracks in total, most of them pop songs similarly orchestrated by artists such as the Vitamin String Quartet and Archer Marsh. With the hit series topping Netflix’s streaming charts, we can only look forward to more of the same.
The Tacamis are made up of musicians from the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and the project of creating trio arrangements of Bach’s seminal keyboard work began during the pandemic lockdowns. JS Bach: The Goldberg Variations comes in at No. 10 on the Classical Chartz, up from No. 12 last week.
The trio of musicians — oboist Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, Tracy Wright on English horn, and bassoonist Allen Harrington — recently came to Toronto for an album release party. Broms-Jacobs created the arrangement for the trio of double-reed instruments, a version that emphasizes the beauty of Bach’s melodic counterpoint. The album includes all 30 of the Variations, along with the aria that bookends them.
“We had this crazy idea,” Caitlin said, who insists the initial spark to perform the Goldbergs came from Tracey Wright. “It ended up being a serendipitous choice.”
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