Specialist Classical Chart for week ending April 7, 2012
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Seven new entries this week: from New College Choir, Oxford in 'Illumina - Music of Light'; Yuja Wang in 'Fantasia'; the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in Rachmaninov; Theatre of Voices in Pärt; Academia Montis Regalis in Handel and Caldara; the Hilliard Ensemble in Gesualdo; and the RSNO in Hawes. Karl Jenkins's The Peacemakers remains at number one for a second week.
Karl Jenkins
Crowe; Hanslip; London Symphony Orchestra / Jenkins
EMI Classics 843782
Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
LSO Live LSO0688
Berg. Beethoven - Violin Concertos
Isabelle Faust; Orchestra Mozart / Claudio Abbado
HM HMC902105
Anthony Hopkins
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Michael Seal
Classic FM CFMD22
Walzer Revolution
Concentus Musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Sony Classical 88697914112
Patrick Hawes
Exeter Phil Choir; Exeter Cathedral Choir; RSNO
Signum Classics SIGCD0282
Italia
Nicola Benedetti (vn), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Christian Curnyn
Decca 4764342
