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John W
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« Reply #15 on: 23:11:58, 05-03-2007 »
Well it's March and it's time for a rundown of the Official Classical Chart, but I don't think it's worth doing the list 1 -20 again as it's almost exactly the same as last month, which I posted above!

Sting is No 1, McCartney is No 2, Handel: Messiah No 3.

The real changes are 18-20, though the Mario Lanza CD at 18 was in the charts around Christmas.

At 19 is the Naxos release of Rutter's Mass of the Children with Clare College Choir directed by Timothy Brown. I can't comment on this at all as I cannot get any enthusiasm for Rutter's contemporary vocal output.

At 20 is the new Naxos Brahms Symph 3 LPO/Marin Alsop
http://www.the-woods.co.uk/html/brahms_sym3naxos.php
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« Reply #16 on: 12:53:50, 13-04-2007 »
Seeing the May BBC Music Magazine already in the shops reminds me I didn't post anything about the Official UK Classical Chart published in the April magazine, so let me just tell you about the Top 3 in the April list:


Sting was knocked off his No 1 spot by Juan Diego Florez The Tenor Decca 475 8418

Mario Lanza moved up from No 18 to No 2,  The Essential Collection The Red Box Therb 206

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson went straight in at No 3 with Sings Peter Lieberson - Neruda Songs Nonesuch 7559 79954-2
Can anyone tell us anything about this singer/album??



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« Reply #17 on: 13:13:23, 13-04-2007 »
Quote from: John W on 12:53:50, 13-04-2007

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson went straight in at No 3 with Sings Peter Lieberson - Neruda Songs Nonesuch 7559 79954-2
Can anyone tell us anything about this singer/album??



John W


John

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson very sadly died last year in her early fifties from breast cancer. Peter Lieberson is her husband. She was American, principally a contralto, performed a wide repertoire from Bach cantatas to John Adams. Trained as an instrumentalist ( can't remember what instrument off hand ) and only took to serious singing in her early twenties I believe. There's another posthumous cd recently released of a recital at Wigmore Hall in Mahler and Brahms songs. Which was vocal cd of the month in that April edition of BBC Music. Sadly missed.
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« Reply #18 on: 13:35:56, 13-04-2007 »
Indeed Bobbyz, it was very amiss of me not to check out her name, for I have her featured in a favourite BBCMM/Harmonia Mundi CD from 1996 of Handel Opera Arias, when she was just Lorraine Hunt.

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« Reply #19 on: 18:03:37, 30-04-2007 »
OK, looking at the chart that was published in May's edition of BBC MM, there are so many new entries etc it's worth (isn't it?) having a full listing/review. Well, hardly a review if I've only bought one album  Roll Eyes

Anyway here we go with the Top 10:

Straight in at No 1 is the debut album from soprano Natasha Marsh. Now, we've had discussions elsewhere and agreement, generally, that the 'official classical' chart is worthy of the name because it avoids 'cross-over' artistes, so I'm mystified why Natsha Marsh is accepted in this chart when Katherine Jenkins and Hayley Westenra are not. Here's a sampling of the tracks on Marsh's 'classical' album: Si Un Jour (theme from "Jean de Florette"), arrangement of Gymnopedie No.1 (Satie), Ai Giochi Addio (love theme from Rota/Zeferelli "Romeo & Juliet"), Autumn Leaves, Mi Mancherai (theme from "Il Postino"), Chanson d'Amour (Faure), The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Et Misericordia (Rutter's Magnificat) etc etc. (EMI).

Listened to some at Amazon, too varied a selection, it's a sweet voice, but it's not an operatic voice.

No 2 still there, Mario Lanza's Essential Collection (Red Box)

No 3 down from No 2 Juan Diego Florez's album (Decca)

No 4 straight in, Alfie Boe's Onward album (EMI) Another cross-over??

No 5 still in the charts, Songs from the Labyrinth, Sting's interpretations of John Dowland (DG)

No 6 up from 13, Mahler, Handel, Lieberson. Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson  (Wigmore Hall Live)

No 7 Sings Peter Lieberson-Neruda Songs, Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson (Nonesuch)

No 8 straight in, Handel: Il Duello Amoroso, Andreas Scholl with Accadamia Byzantina (Harmonia Mundi)
http://www.andreasschollsociety.org/duello.html

No 9 gosh, the 3 tenors are still around, Nessun Dorma. Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras (Ground Floor)

No 10 Gitano: Zarzuela Arias. Rolando Villazon directed by Placido Domingo. Villazon IS an opera singer (Alfredo in La Traviata and Des Grieux in Manon) and the lucky man has already made an album of duets with Netrebko.
http://www.rolandovillazon.com/eng/index.html

11-20 to follow  Wink
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« Reply #20 on: 18:01:22, 14-05-2007 »
And so, on to 11-20 in the Official Classical chart from May BBCMM, and it really is looking like a proper classical chart!


11. Dragon Songs featuring Lang Lang, piano (DG) - the virtuoso pianist plays Chinese traditional music

12. Chopin Sonata No 2 + 4 scherzos, played by Simon Trpceski (EMI). Some may remember him at the London International Piano Competition in 2000, and his proms debut in 2004.

13. Orff: Carmina Burana, Bournemouth SP & chorus, cond. Marin Alsop (Naxos)

14. Beethoven: Fidelio   LSO, Sir Colin Davis (LSO/Harmonia Mundi) This is a live recording with grunts, according to BBCMM.

15. Allegri: Miserere, and works by Palestrina. Tallis Scholars dir. Peter Phillips (Gimell)

Tallis Scholars dir. Peter Phillips

16. Music for Compline (Tallis, Byrd et al), by Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi). Debut recording from 'Stile Antico' who work as a vocal consort without conductor.

Music for Compline

17. Bach: Cantatas Vol 22. Monteverdi Choir/EBS John Eliot Gardiner (SDG). A set of Easter cantatas.

18. Brahms: Symphony No 3 LPO cond. Marin Alsop. Also Var. on Theme by Haydn and St Antoni Chorale (Naxos).

Listen to Brahms bits

19. Nigel Kennedy's Platinum Collection (EMI). Triple CD for £11.99. Bruch, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi and lots more.

20. Mario Lanza's Solid Gold Collection (SGD)

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« Reply #21 on: 15:53:16, 30-05-2007 »
I usually read MDT best sellers list each month as a guide to what is selling well.

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/category/Choice_top25_Apr07/

It doesn't really matter to me, I'm just interested.
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« Reply #22 on: 16:02:50, 30-05-2007 »
Quote from: Janthefan on 15:53:16, 30-05-2007
I usually read MDT best sellers list each month as a guide to what is selling well.

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/category/Choice_top25_Apr07/
Wot? No Lark Ascending or Karl Jenkins? Who are these weirdos who buy CDs from MDT?
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« Reply #23 on: 21:04:30, 07-07-2007 »
I'm getting behind with these charts, so just a quick mention of new entries or re-entries that were in the chart published in the June issue BBCMM.

A very mixed pack in the chart now.


No 3  Duets from Netrebko/Villazon (DG)

No 4 German Requiem Brahms. Rattle/Berlin (EMI)

No 7 Heroes Symphony, The Light. Philip Glass. Alsop/Bournemouth (Naxos)

No 8 String Quartet. Gorecki.  Kronos Qt. (Nonesuch)

No 12 Alfie Boe. Classic FM

No 14 Platinum Collection. Kennedy (EMI)

No 15 Wild Swans, Kats-Chernin.  Rudner/Tasmanian. (ABC)

No 17 Violin Concertos 2 & 4. Mozart. Vengerov. (EMI)

No 18 As Steals The Morn Handel.  Padmore/English Concert/Manze (Harmonia Mundi)

No 19 Symphonies 4 & 7. Stanford. Bournemouth/Lloyd-Jones (Naxos)

No 20 Messiah Handel. New College Choir/Higginbottom (Naxos)
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« Reply #24 on: 20:18:13, 03-10-2007 »
Yes, it some time since I reviewed the Official Classical Chart as published in the BBC MM, but there were recently few new entries and very little interest here if you look at the responses.

This will likely be my last posting on this thread because BBC MM have, for similar reasons possibly, discontinued printing the chart in the magazine.

Another reason might be because last month's chart chose to include Katherine Jenkins' Serenade album, in at No. 3  Roll Eyes

I may start a new thread because in this month's BBC MM they have published a different sort of chart........
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