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There’s no change on the No. 1 place on the Classical Chartz for the fourth week in a row. It’s firmly occupied by Dutch violinist André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra and their album The Sound of Heaven. Classical melodies with a robust contact of the romantic are on supply — and it looks like listeners around the globe are responding.
Arduous on its heels, nonetheless, are two quick rising releases: Ludovico Einaudi’s The Summer time Portraits, and the Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack to the biopic Maria. The Summer time Portraits is closing in on the highest, at present at No. 2, up from No. 7 final week. Maria climbs from No. 6 to settle in at No. 3 this week.
Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho is the newcomer to the Classical Chartz Prime Ten this week along with his album Maurice Ravel. It’s additionally the quickest rising on the Chartz, having climbed all the way in which from No. 11 to land at No. 6.
It’s a credit score to his non-musical dad and mom that they acknowledged his expertise, and he started to check each piano and violin on the age of six. He first took the stage for a piano recital in public on the age of 11. He later studied at Sunchon Nationwide College and Seoul Nationwide College.
The South Korean pianist’s worldwide profession was launched after his first prize win on the 2015 Worldwide Chopin Piano Competitors. He has since launched seven studio albums (and one dwell recording) on the Deutsche Grammophon label, and is the Artist in Residence of the Berlin Philharmonic for 2024/25.
The album is the primary of two that may current Ravel’s full works for solo piano. “I’ve at all times been fascinated by the concepts, colors and feelings to be present in Ravel’s music, and it has been an honour to document his full solo piano works and concertos,” he says in a press release. “Ravel actually knew what he needed, so I attempt to observe his particular markings.”
Cho might be hitting Toronto’s Koerner Corridor later this yr on November 29 to carry out a program of Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin and Bartok.
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