Teodor Currentzis’s ‘invigoratingly novel angle’ on Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 with MusicAeterna occupies the top spot this month – you can read James’s full review of the recording here. Many of you are evidently getting into the festive spirit already, with a celebration of the centenary of the first Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College Cambridge sitting at No. 2, whilst the outward leg of Daniil Trifonov’s Rachmaninov Journey with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra (last month’s best-seller) is still attracting plenty of attention at No. 6.
No. 1 (No. 3 last month)
MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
King’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Magali Mosnier (flute), Antoine Tamestit viola), Xavier de Maistre (harp), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Copland: Orchestral Works Volume 4
Symphony No. 3, Letter from Home, Down a Country Lane & Connotations
BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 1 last month)
Daniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (No. 6 last month)
Hilary Hahn (violin)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (No. 22 last month)
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Joyce DiDonato (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso), Michelle Bradley (Clotilde), Adam Diegel (Flavio); The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Rizzi, Sir David McVicar
Available format: 2 DVD Videos
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Joyce DiDonato (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso), Michelle Bradley (Clotilde), Adam Diegel (Flavio); The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Rizzi, Sir David McVicar
Available format: Blu-ray
No. 10 (No. 2 last month)
Igor Levit (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (new entry)
Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried), Eric Halfvarson (Hagen), Shenyang (Gunther), Amanda Majeski (Gutrune), Peter Kálmán (Alberich), Michelle DeYoung (Waltraute); Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
Available formats: 4 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried), Eric Halfvarson (Hagen), Shenyang (Gunther), Amanda Majeski (Gutrune), Peter Kálmán (Alberich), Michelle DeYoung (Waltraute); Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
Available format: Blu-ray Audio
No. 12 (new entry)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
No. 14 (No. 13 last month)
No. 15 (new entry)
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Available format: SACD
No. 16 (No. 10 last month)
Steven Isserlis (cello), Dénes Várjon (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 176.4 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Léa Desandre (mezzo), Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (No. 4 last month)
Requiem – The Pity of War
Mahler – Stephan – Butterworth – Weill
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Sir Antonio Pappano (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (No. 7 last month)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (new entry)
The London Haydn Quartet
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (No. 7 in September)
No. 23 (No. 7 in August)
Alexander Melnikov, with Olga Pashchenko (piano)
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No. 24 (new entry)
Franco Fagioli (Serse), Vivica Genaux (Arsamente), Inga Kalna (Romilda), Francesca Aspromonte (Atalanta), Andrea Mastroni (Ariodate), Delphine Galou (Amastre), Biagio Pizzuti (Elviro); Il Pomo d ́Oro Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (new entry)
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Vladimir Jurowski
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
