Take pleasure in new music with our classical music chart for this week. Our weekly choices are primarily based on gross sales numbers and easily what albums we love and assume you NEED to listen to.
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Andre Rieu and his The Sound of Heaven preserve 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 report awards to his identify, his present success comes as no shock. Rieu understands how one can create eye-catching applications, and proves he can do it again and again.
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 Yr’s Live performance 2025), and the compilation album Fragments II – Lili Boulanger, make constructive strikes. Muti and the Vienna Phil make the most important 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 the 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 combined evaluations from critics, there’s no disputing the worth of Callas’ catalogue.
The songs within the film generally featured a digital mixture of Callas’ unique and Jolie’s personal vocals. On the soundtrack album, a 28-second monitor titled I Exhibits Him the Diary (feat. Pierfrancesco Favino & Vincent Macaigne) is credited to the actress, together with one other 9 seconds (I Imagine I”m Anticipated) that options Favino once more, and 44 seconds of Final Evening 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’ elegant 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 could love the historic Callas, and newcomers will respect an introduction to the music.
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