Get pleasure from new music with our classical music chart for this week. Our weekly picks 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.

There was quite a lot of shuffling the deck on the subject of the High Ten this week, though stalwart Lang Lang continues to be holding on to No. 1, and each Francesca Dego (Brahms & Busoni Violin Concertos, with the BBC Symphony) and the Nationwide Arts Centre Orchestra (Fact In Our Time) holding the road at Nos. 6 and seven respectively.

As Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos march upwards to No. 2 with Beethoven for Three, the third of their recording collection, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and l’Orchestra Metropolitain, with Sibelius 2 & 5, Daniel Hope, and Il Divo make the drop to Nos. 3, 4, and 5 to make room.

New to the High Ten is the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and conductor Rafael Payare with Strauss, Ein Heldenleben – Mahler, Rückert-Lieder, making the leap from No. 11 to No. 8. The album was recorded on the Maison Symphonique in March of 2023 on the Pentatone label, and continues Payare’s ardour with late Romantic German/Austrian repertoire. The 2 composers distinction one another in method, particularly at this juncture of their careers. The work of each Strauss and Mahler, nevertheless, provide wealthy alternatives for contemplation. Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva is a rising star within the opera world, and was lately named Officière de l’ordre de Arts et des lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the republic of France.

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