Take pleasure in new music with our classical music chart for this week. Our weekly alternatives are based mostly 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 Prime 20 record 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 pair 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 season Evening 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 yr, 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’ve needed to document 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 unbelievable storyteller,” she says, “who gives 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 season Evening Live performance, which was held June 13, is vast ranging, and contains 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 befell 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 carried out the very first of what got here to be referred to as the Philharmonic Academy live shows in Vienna 183 years in the past in 1842. It laid the groundwork for what would change into the Vienna Philharmonic.
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