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André Rieu enters the Classical Chartz at No. 1, a powerful feat that speaks to his world reputation. His launch Thank You, Johann Strauss! Marks the long-lasting composer’s two hundredth birthday. The album pays tribute to the Waltz King and different members of the Strauss household by way of 39 tracks. If you buy the bodily media, it consists of three CDs and a DVD.
They embrace the anticipated, just like the Radetzky March by Strauss Sr., the Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, and An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314, together with maybe lesser identified fare reminiscent of Perpetual Cellular, Op. 257, by Strauss Jr.
Rieu says within the liner notes, “2025 is a momentous yr as a result of this yr marks precisely 200 years because the delivery of the person who conjures up me together with his lovely, music each night time — Johann Strauss. There’s a purpose I named my orchestra after him, and that’s as a result of I can’t consider another composer who has introduced a lot pleasure to the world together with his music. Each night at each live performance all around the world we play his most well-known waltz, ‘An der schönen blauen Donau,’ and each night folks soar up as quickly as they hear the primary bars of this lovely waltz. After I see these {couples} maintain one another shut and dance the night time away, it fills my coronary heart with happiness.”
The New Yr’s Live performance 2026, that includes the Vienna Philharmonic and Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin additionally enters the Chartz for the primary time on a excessive notice, coming in at No. 3. It was the primary time that Maestro Nézet-Séguin took the helm of the fabled Vienna Phil for the long-lasting New Yr’s Day occasion, which is broadcast to greater than 50 million viewers throughout 50 nations from the Golden Corridor of the town’s Musikverein.
The double CD on the Sony label features a program of beloved works, heavy on the Strauss household, together with 4 from Johann Strauss II (Overtüre to the Operetta “Indigo and the Forty Thieves”, Fledermaus-Quadrille, op. 363, Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), Waltz, op. 388, and Diplomaten-Polka. Polka francaise, op. 448), one other two from his brother Josef Strauss (Olive Department Waltz, op. 207 and Frauenwürde. Walzer, op. 277), one from Eduard Strauss, one other brother (Brausteufelchen. Polka schnell, op. 154), and one by father Johann Strauss I. (Der Karneval in Paris. Galopp, op. 100).
Different music from Carl Michael Ziehrer, Josephine Weinlich, Joseph Lanner, Florence Worth, and Hans Christian Lumbye spherical out this system.
Violin Café by Nicola Benedetti is available in at No. 7 on the Classical Chartz. The beloved violinist is joined by Plínio Fernandes (guitar) Samuele Telari (accordion) Thomas Carroll (cello) Yume Fujise (violin) Brighde Chaimbeul (Scottish smallpipes). Benedetti writes that the bizarre preparations “got here to me in the course of the night time”.
They carry out music by music by Bloch, Davies, Debussy, Dushkin, Ponce, Sarasate together with conventional Scottish favourites like Hackey Honey Reel, Skye Boat Track, and A’ Choille Gruamach, in a musical tribute to her Scottish heritage.
The album is a type of love letter to her followers, and followers of classical music extra broadly. She’s been performing with the bizarre ensemble stay within the UK. Debussy’s Beau soir is the ultimate monitor on the album, a piece that she says, incorporates “uplifting virtuosity with seductive romance”.
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