Here’s this week’s Applce Classical streaming top ten, released exclusively on slippedisc.
The fastest rising entrant is a confection of Beethoven for piano trio. On its ghastly cover, Yo Yo Ma looks like Gustav Mahler, Kavakos is a spinsterish music teacher and Emanuel Ax is simply faceless – a Waspish frat boy. Some smart guys at Sony must have thought this was a good likeness.
Wonder who?
Chart:
1 Tchaikovsky: The Seasons Yunchan Lim
2 Sleep Max Richter
3 Beethoven for Three Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax
4 J. S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin Isabelle Faust, Kristin von der Goltz, Kristian Bezuidenhout
5 Still & Bonds: Symphonies The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
6 Mozart: Violin Concertos Chloe Chua, Ziyu He, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf
7 Spanish Serenades Raphaël Feuillâtre
8 Resonance Emmanuel Despax, Piatti Quartet
9 Moonlight Variations Pablo Ferrández
10 The Summer Portraits Ludovico Einaudi
Apple top 100 here.
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