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 entire prime 20, tune into Classical Chartz with the New Classical FM’s Mark Wigmore each Saturday from 3-5 p.m.
Andre Rieu and his The Sound of Heaven maintain their maintain on the highest spot of the Classical Chartz High Ten this week. With greater than 40 tens of millions CD and DVD gross sales worldwide (that’s not together with streaming numbers), 500 Platinum and 270 Gold file awards to his identify, his present success comes as no shock. Rieu understands the best way to create attention-grabbing packages, and proves he can do it over and over.
Many of the different albums within the High Ten jostle one another for positions over final week, however solely the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti (The New 12 months’s Live performance 2025), and the compilation album Fragments II – Lili Boulanger, make constructive strikes. Muti and the Vienna Phil make the largest upward leap, rising to No. 2 from No. 7 final week.
There’s one newcomer to the Classical Chartz High Ten this week, and its rise is a part of a present pattern in direction of compilations with a particular twist: Hollywood glamour. The unique soundtrack for the film Maria, the biopic starring Angelina Jolie within the story of the final weeks of Maria Callas’ life.
Whereas the flick might need gotten blended evaluations from critics, there’s no disputing the worth of Callas’ catalogue.
The songs within the film typically featured a digital mixture of Callas’ unique and Jolie’s personal vocals. On the soundtrack album, a 28-second observe titled I Exhibits Him the Diary (feat. Pierfrancesco Favino & Vincent Macaigne) is credited to the actress, together with one other 9 seconds (I Consider I”m Anticipated) that options Favino once more, and 44 seconds of Final Night time Earlier than He Fell Asleep (feat. Caspar Phillipson).
The rest of the tracks credit score conductor Péter Illényi (main an opera refrain), pianist Károly Zentai, and Greek actress Aggelina Papadopoulou, who performs Bizet’s well-known Habanera from Carmen.
Maria Callas’ chic voice is featured in historic tracks resembling Bellini’s Qui la voice suavities soave (from I Puritani), and Verdi’s Sempre libera (La Traviata), together with a few different tracks.
Opera devotees might love the historic Callas, and newcomers will respect an introduction to the music.
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