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Just in his own time for Chopin

Just in his own time for Chopin

There’s a surprise #1 on the Apple Classical global streaming charts this week.

It’s a French-US harpsichordist called Justin Taylor playing Chopin on a Pleyel pianino of 1839. The label is Outhere. Is Justin out there playing pianino night after night? Or is this flying off Apple by word of mouth?

1 Chopin intime Justin Taylor

Followed by:

2 Sleep Max Richter

3 Scriabin: Vers la flamme Yevgeny Sudbin

4 Field: Complete Nocturnes Alice Sara Ott

5 Women Esther Abrami

6 Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos Yuja Wang, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons

7 Bruch & Korngold Bomsori Kim, Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša

8 Night Nils Frahm

9 Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.2 Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Sinfonia of London, John Wilson

10 Âmes sœurs Lorraine Campet, Nathanaël Gouin

You can access the full top 100 here.

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