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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.<\/p>\n
For the complete top 20, tune into Classical Chartz<\/a><\/strong> with the New Classical FM\u2019s Mark Wigmore every Saturday from 3-5 p.m.<\/p>\n Josh Groban<\/strong>\u2019s Gems<\/strong> fights off all contenders to hang on to the top spot on the Classical Chartz for yet another week. Remarkably, just behind it, Jean-Michel Blais and Lara Somogyi<\/strong>\u2019s Desert<\/strong> climbs back up from No. 8 to land at No. 2. There may yet be an upset at the top of the Chartz for neoclassical superstars in the week to come\u2026<\/p>\n Yunchan Lim<\/strong> continues to captivate, falling just one spot from No. 2 to end up at No. 3 with his historic Van Cliburn win from 2022, performing Rachmaninoff<\/strong>\u2019s iconic Piano Concert No. 3<\/strong>. It gives his voracious fans something to chew on until his next recording endeavour.<\/p>\n There\u2019s only one newcomer to the Classical Chartz Top Ten this week: Rapha\u00ebl Feuill\u00e2tre<\/strong> and his release Spanish Serenades<\/strong>, which makes the leap from No. 13 last week to land at No. 9.<\/p>\n French guitarist Rapha\u00ebl Feuill\u00e2tre<\/strong> launched his career with a string of competition wins, including Jose Tomas International Guitar Competition in Villa Petrer in Spain (2017), Kutna Hora International Guitar Festival in the Czech Republic (2017), Viseu International Spring Music Festival in Portugal (2016), Fontenay-sous-Bois Guitar Competition & Festival in France (2015), and Ciudad de Coria International Guitar Festival in Spain (2014). It was his 2018 first prize win at the Guitar Foundation of America competition (which included a 9-month international tour), and ADAMI’s \u201cClassical Revelation 2021\u201d that set him firmly on the path of an international classical guitar star. Rapha\u00ebl was signed as an exclusive artist by Deutsche Grammophon in 2022, one of the very few guitarists on the label\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n Born in the Republic of Djibouti on the northeastern coast of Africa, Rapha\u00ebl grew up in the small city of Cholet in western France. It was not a musical family, but his parents recognized his gift early on, after he\u2019d been given a plastic toy guitar at age seven.<\/p>\n Two years later, he was enrolled at the Cholet Conservatoire, and he continued studying the guitar alongside his high school years in Nantes. In 2020, he began studies at the Paris Conservatoire. He\u2019s performed at some of the world\u2019s most prestigious stages, including New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall and Town Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, La Folle Journ\u00e9e in Nantes, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, among others.<\/p>\n Spanish Serenades is his second DG album, offering selections by Alb\u00e9niz, Granados, Llobet, Rodrigo and T\u00e1rrega. The tracks include five of Feuill\u00e2tre\u2019s own inventive transcriptions of works for solo piano; among them, Granados\u2019s\u00a0Andaluza, performed with Mar\u00eda Due\u00f1as.\u00a0He is accompanied by the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and G\u00e1bor Tak\u00e1cs-Nagy for Rodrigo\u2019s\u00a0Concierto de Aranjuez.<\/p>\n Are you looking to promote an event<\/u><\/span><\/a>? Have a\u00a0news tip<\/u><\/a>? Need to know the best\u00a0events<\/u><\/a>\u00a0happening this weekend? Send us a\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>note<\/u>.<\/em><\/strong>![\"top](\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/CHARTZ-Jul-7-2025.jpg\")
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