Specialist Classical Chart for week ending February 6, 2010
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Lots of new entries this week. Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch perform Schubert, Nikolaj Znaider plays Elgar, BBC NOW presents Sullivan's Ivanhoe, Clare College Cambridge sings Vaughan Williams's "Sacred Choral Music", Christian Gerhaher performs Mahler, The Sixteen performs "Music for the Tudors", the Pavel Haas plays Prokofiev String Quartets, the LSO performs Richard Strauss, and there are Rachmaninov entries from Denis Matsuev and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Meanwhile André Rieu holds onto the top spot for another week with "Forever Vienna".
Schubert
Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch
Decca 478 1528Elgar
Nikolaj Znaider, Dresden Staatskapelle / Davis
RCA Red Seal 88697 60588-2New Year's Day Concert 2010
Vienna Philharmonic / Georges Prêtre
Decca 478 2113Sullivan
Soloists, BBC NOW / David Lloyd-Jones
Chandos CHAN105783
The Farewell Concerts
Alfred Brendel, Vienna Philharmonic / Charles Mackerras
Decca 478 2116Vaughan Williams
Clare College Choir / Timothy Brown
Naxos 8 572465Mahler
Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber
RCA Red Seal 88697 56773-2Prokofiev
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
LSO Live LSO0682Ceremony and Devotion: Music for the Tudors
The Sixteen / Harry Christophers
Coro COR16077Whitbourn
Gillett, Andrade, Commotio / Matthew Berry
Naxos 8 572103Prokofiev
Pavel Haas Quartet
Supraphon SU 3957-2
Alma Mater - Music from the Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI
Geffen 476 3664Byrd
The Cardinall’s Musick / Andrew Carwood
Hyperion CDA67779The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan
Gala Ensemble
Sony 88697 42191-2Strauss, R
London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink
LSO Live LSO0689Rachmaninov
Denis Matsuev, Mariinsky Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
Mariinsky MAR0505
Rachmaninov
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / Vasily Petrenko
Avie AV2188
