Specialist Classical Chart for week ending December 19, 2009
“Alma Mater - Music from the Vatican” remains in the number 1 spot for a third week and Howard Goodall’s “Enchanted Carols” retains the number 2 position - all very appropriate for the Christmas chart!
Alma Mater - Music from the Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI
Geffen 476 3664Goodall
Enchanted Voices
Classic FM CFMD11
The Farewell Concerts
Alfred Brendel, Vienna Philharmonic / Charles Mackerras
Decca 478 2116
Sacrificium
Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini
Decca 478 1521In Terra Pax - A Christmas Anthology
Julia Doyle; Bournemouth SO / Hilary Davan Wetton
Naxos 8 572102
Shostakovich
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / Petrenko
Naxos 8.572167A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Cleobury
EMI 686082-2Rutter
Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic / Rutter
Collegium COLCD133Handel
Soloists, King's College Choir, AAM / Stephen Cleobury
EMI 268156-2Schubert
Belcea Quartet, Valentin Erben
EMI 967025-2
Handel
Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia / Stephen Layton
Hyperion CDA67800
Verdi - Requiem Mass
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano
EMI 698936-2
Vaughan Williams
Ashley Wass, RLPO / James Judd
Naxos 8 572304
