Classic FM Chart: Einaudi knocks Lord of the Rings off the top spot
12 August 2018, 18:55
After just one week in pole position, Howard Shore's soundtrack for The Two Towers is unceremoniously displaced by Ludovico Einaudi.
No stranger to the top of the charts, Einaudi's massive-selling Islands compilation made short work of Howard Shore's reign at no. 1 (and sending it back down to no. 22).
Elsewhere in the top 10, there are new entries at nos. 4 & 5. Firstly, Classic FM's new compilation The Classics You Know serves up some big hits from the classical canon, but also tells you where you know them from (for example, Barber's Adagio for Strings becomes 'that one from Platoon').
At no. 5, a new entry from 15-year-old Elan Catrin Parry, the young singer who charmed the nation on ITV's This Time Next Year with her remarkable voice, who has now signed to Decca for her debut release.
No more new entries in the chart this week, but there is a welcome return for Max Richter's increasingly legendary reworking of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, sneaking back in at no. 30.
| This Week | Last Week | Title & Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ISLANDS - ESSENTIAL EINAUDI, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 2 | 3 | INSPIRATION, SHEKU KANNEH-MASON Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 3 | NEW | THE CLASSICS YOU KNOW, ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 4 | NEW | ANGEL, ELAN CATRIN PARRY Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 5 | 6 | THE LITTLE MERMAID - OST, ALAN MENKEN Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 6 | 5 | THE 50 GREATEST PIECES OF CLASSICAL, LPO/PARRY Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 7 | 9 | THE LORD OF THE RINGS - TRILOGY - OST, HOWARD SHORE Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 8 | 4 | AMORE, ANDRE RIEU Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 9 | 8 | DIVENIRE, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 10 | 17 | ELEMENTS, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 11 | 21 | VIVALDI X2 - DOUBLE CONCERTOS FOR OBOES, LA SERENISSIMA/ADRIAN CHANDLER Buy from Amazon |
| 12 | 18 | SCORE, 2CELLOS Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 13 | 7 | GLADIATOR - OST, HANS ZIMMER & LISA GERRARD Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 14 | 11 | SLEEP, MAX RICHTER Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 15 | 16 | THE LORD OF THE RINGS - OST, HOWARD SHORE |
| 16 | 13 | THE BLUE NOTEBOOKS, MAX RICHTER Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 17 | 12 | RACHMANINOV/ETUDES-TABLEAUX, STEVEN OSBOURNE Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 18 | 14 | IN A TIME LAPSE, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 19 | 10 | JOHN WILLIAMS - A LIFE IN MUSIC, LSO/GREENAWAY Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 20 | 27 | AVENGERS - INFINITY WAR - OST, ALAN SILVESTRI Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 21 | 19 | INCREDIBLES 2 - OST, MICHAEL GIACCHINO Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 22 | 1 | LORD OF THE RINGS - THE TWO TOWERS - OST, HOWARD SHORE Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 23 | 20 | CLASSICAL CHILLOUT, VARIOUS ARTISTS Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 24 | 15 | POLDARK - OST, ANNE DUDLEY Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 25 | 22 | I GIORNI, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 26 | 24 | GAME OF THRONES - SEASON 6 - OST, RAMIN DJAWADI Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 27 | 23 | UNA MATTINA, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 28 | RE | PRIDE & PREJUDICE - OST, MARIANELLI/ECO/THIBAUDET Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 29 | 26 | GAME OF THRONES - SEASON 7 - OST, RAMIN DJAWADI Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
| 30 | RE | RECOMPOSED BY MAX RICHTER/VIVALDI - FOUR, HOPE/KONZERTHAUS CO/RIDDER Download from iTunes - Buy from Amazon |
