Take pleasure in new music with our classical music chart for this week. Our weekly alternatives are primarily based on gross sales numbers and easily what albums we love and suppose you NEED to listen to.
For the whole prime 20, tune into Classical Chartz with the New Classical FM’s Mark Wigmore each Saturday from 3-5 p.m. Discover the entire High 20 listing right here.
Jean-Michel Blais and Lara Somogyi’s Desert and Josh Groban’s Gems proceed their dance on the prime of the Classical Chartz, touchdown at No. 1 and a couple of respectively this week. Simply after them, French guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre climbs to No. 3 from No. 4 with Spanish Serenades.
There are two newcomers to the Classical Chartz this week — Ensemble Masques and Bach Telemann Albinoni, and the Summer time Night time Live performance 2025 recorded by the Vienna Phil and conductor Tugan Sokhiev.
Based in Montréal in 1996, Ensemble Masques is devoted to the music of the seventeenth and 18th centuries, no matter style. Along with Fortin, its present members are: Sophie Gent, violin, Kathleen Kajioka, viola, Mélisande Corriveau cello and viola de gamba, Tuomo Suni, violin, and Benoît Vanden Bemden, bass. For the fourth 12 months, the Ensemble Masques is in residence at Cluny Abbey (Centre des Monuments Nationaux) in France.
Three of its members additionally act as soloists on the brand new recording.
“We now have needed to file Bach’s violin concertos with Sophie Gent ever since she joined Ensemble Masques in 2003,” says Olivier Fortin, harpsichordist and founding father of the ensemble, in an announcement.
Violist (and Classical FM radio host) Kathleen Kajioka takes the highlight for Telemann’s Viola Concerto. “Telemann is a improbable storyteller,” she says, “who supplies a plot, characters, costumes and props — and leaves you to place all of it collectively.”
Fortin selected two Albinoni sinfonie to finish the recording, launched on the Alpha Classics label.
This system for the Vienna Philharmonic’s Summer time Night time Live performance, which was held June 13, is huge ranging, and consists of Bach, Offenbach, Berlioz, Bizet, Saint-Saens, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Mascagni, Puccini, Nicolai, and Emmerich Kálmán — incorporating one thing to please most tastes from the 18th to the early twentieth centuries, in different phrases.
The open-air live performance, which came about on the grounds of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, represents a début on the annual summer time occasion for conductor Tugan Sokhiev, tenor soloist Piotr Beczała, and the Vienna Boys Choir.
In a nod to historical past, Otto Nicolai’s Overture to the Opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) was on this system. Nicolai performed the very first of what got here to be known as the Philharmonic Academy live shows in Vienna 183 years in the past in 1842. It laid the groundwork for what would turn out to be the Vienna Philharmonic.
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