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2 October 2016, 18:55 | Updated: 19 December 2016, 16:24
The Empire is striking back - but the Lost Songs of St Kilda are solid as a rock at No.1
The Lost Songs of St Kilda is the best-selling classical album for the third week running. But there's a potential threat on the horizon in the form of Star Wars Episode 4 - A New Hope, the original soundtrack, which has zoomed from No.25 to No.2 in just one week.
Elsewhere there's a high new entry at No.10 as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra celebrates the life and works of its much-loved Composer Laureate Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise brilliantly portrays the beauty of the rising sun after a boozy celebration, using bagpipes to close in a blaze of light. The album also includes two pieces for solo guitar – played by Sean Shibe – vividly conveying the menacing flashes of Hill Runes and the unaffected tenderness of Farewell To Stromness.
This Week | Last Week | Title & Artist |
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1 | 1 | THE LOST SONGS OF ST KILDA, MORRISON/SFO/MACMILLAN Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
2 | 25 | STAR WARS - EPISODE 4 - A NEW HOPE - OST, LSO/WILLIAMS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
3 | 4 | 100 HITS - RELAXING CLASSICS, VARIOUS ARTISTS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
5 | 2 | THE MUSICAL ZODIAC, NATIONAL SO/WISEMAN Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
6 | 5 | VIVA OLYMPIA, ANDRE RIEU & JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
7 | 9 | STAR WARS - THE FORCE AWAKENS - OST, JOHN WILLIAMS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
8 | 16 | CINEMA, ANDREA BOCELLI Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
9 | 10 | ISLANDS - ESSENTIAL EINAUDI, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
10 | NEW | MAXWELL DAVIES/AN ORKNEY WEDDING WITH SUNRISE, SHIBE/SCOTTISH CO/GERNON Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
11 | 11 | BELIEVE, JONATHAN ANTOINE Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
12 | 6 | ORPHEE, JOHANN JOHANNSSON Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
13 | 12 | THE 50 GREATEST PIECES OF CLASSICAL , LPO/PARRY Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
14 | NEW | HORNER/COLLAGE - THE LAST WORK, LPO/RLPO/MARTIN/ARNOLD Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
15 | 7 | POLDARK - OST, ANNE DUDLEY Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
16 | 8 | SUICIDE SQUAD - OST, STEVEN PRICE Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
17 | 13 | ONE VOICE, ALED JONES Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
18 | 19 | 40 MOST BEAUTIFUL CLASSICAL PIECES, VARIOUS ARTISTS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
19 | 21 | ELEMENTS, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
20 | 22 | DESTINY - RISE OF IRON - OST, SALVATORI/LEWIN/JOHNSON/MOAV Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
21 | NEW | SHOSTAKOVICH/CELLO CONCERTOS NOS 1 & 2, WEILERSTEIN/BAYERISCHEN RSO/HERAS-CASADO Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
22 | 14 | THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN - OST, JAMES HORNER/SIMON FRANGLEN Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
23 | 18 | THE LORD OF THE RINGS - OST, HOWARD SHORE Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
24 | RE-ENTRY | PART/TALLIS/BYRD/THE DEER'S CRY, SIXTEEN/CHRISTOPHERS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
25 | NEW | BACH/THE ART OF FUGUE, PODGER/BRECON BAROQUE Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
26 | 17 | GAME OF THRONES - SEASON 6 - OST, RAMIN DJAWADI Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
27 | 28 | STAR TREK BEYOND - OST, MICHAEL GIACCHINO Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
28 | 27 | TITANIC - OST, JAMES HORNER Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
29 | RE-ENTRY | MAGIC OF THE WALTZ, ANDRE RIEU Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
30 | RE-ENTRY | 40 MOST BEAUTIFUL CLASSICAL PIECES, VARIOUS ARTISTS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |