Specialist Classical Chart for week ending February 13, 2010
Composer James Whitbourn leaps to second place, behind André Rieu, with Luminosity (on Naxos). Meanwhile, Amy Dickson enters the chart at No 13 with her transcriptions for soprano saxophone of Glass's Violin Concerto and Tavener's The Protecting Veil, released on RCA Red Seal.
Whitbourn
Gillett, Andrade, Commotio / Matthew Berry
Naxos 8 572103Schubert
Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch
Decca 478 1528Elgar
Nikolaj Znaider, Dresden Staatskapelle / Davis
RCA Red Seal 88697 60588-2Ceremony and Devotion: Music for the Tudors
The Sixteen / Harry Christophers
Coro COR16077
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
LSO Live LSO0682Prokofiev
Pavel Haas Quartet
Supraphon SU 3957-2New Year's Day Concert 2010
Vienna Philharmonic / Georges Prêtre
Decca 478 2113
The Farewell Concerts
Alfred Brendel, Vienna Philharmonic / Charles Mackerras
Decca 478 2116Sullivan
Soloists, BBC NOW / David Lloyd-Jones
Chandos CHAN105783Vaughan Williams
Clare College Choir / Timothy Brown
Naxos 8 572465Ombre de mon amant
Anne Sofie von Otter, Les Arts Florissants / Christie
Archiv CD 477 8610Glass. Nyman. Tavener
Amy Dickson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Mikel Toms
RCA Red Seal 88697 37679-2Bach
Hilary Hahn, Christine Schäfer, Matthias Goerne
DG 477 8092Taverner
St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh / Ferguson
Delphian Records DCD34023Alma Mater - Music from the Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI
Geffen 476 3664Mahler
Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber
RCA Red Seal 88697 56773-2The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan
Gala Ensemble
Sony 88697 42191-2

