Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - February 2021
The fifth instalment of Andris Nelsons's Bruckner cycle from Leipzig (which began in 2017 with Symphony No. 3 and continued last month with Nos. 2 & 8) tops the February chart, closely followed by our January best-seller English Music for Strings from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London on Chandos: you can read James's review of the Bruckner here.
Two March releases from BIS have already hit the ground running via pre-orders, with the Chiaroscuro Quartet's latest Haydn recording sitting at No. 17 and Osmo Vänskä's Mahler 10 with the Minnesota Orchestra (of which more tomorrow...) entering at No. 20.
No. 1 (new entry)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 2 (No. 1 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (new entry)
Freiburger Barockconsort, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4 (No. 4 last month)
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Frédéric Chaslin
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (No. 7 last month)
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (new entry)
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo), Werner Güra (tenor), Shenyang (bass-baritone)
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
Tabea Debus (recorders), La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 11 (No. 21 last month)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 12 (No. 3 last month)
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (new entry)
Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Daniel Hope (violin), Sean Mori (violin), Kay Stern (violin), Dawn Harms (violin), Patricia Heller (viola), Emil Miland (cello)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (new entry)
Polina Pasztircsák (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Steve Davislim (tenor), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 15 (new entry)
Daniel Hope (violin), Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (No. 8 last month)
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 17 (new entry)
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (new entry)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (No. 24 last month)
London Haydn Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 20 (new entry)
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (new entry)
Anna Dennis (Semele), Richard Burkhard (Jupiter), Helen Charlston (Juno), Aoife Miskelly (Ino), William Wallace (Athamas), Héloïse Bernard (Iris)
Academy of Ancient Music, Julian Perkins
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 22 (new entry)
Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d’Oro
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 23 (new entry)
Ksenija Sidorova (accordion)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25 (new entry)
Stile Antico
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
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