Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - 2018
As a postscript to the December chart, we’ve decided to share details of our fifty best-selling titles across the board for the whole of last year – it will likely come as no great surprise to regular followers of the monthly charts that Rachel Podger’s small-but-perfectly-formed Four Seasons with Brecon Baroque on Channel Classics (No. 1 in our very first chart back in April, and a regular in the Top 25s for much of the year) takes the top spot, followed by an eleventh-hour contender from The Choir of King’s College Cambridge, which notched up an impressive number of sales in just six weeks after its release in November.
Roughly three-quarters of the top fifty are 2018 releases, but we’ve also seen a resurgence of interest in several high-profile titles from the past couple of years – including John Nelsons’s Les Troyens on Erato (thanks in part to its winning Gramophone, Opus Klassik, BBC Music Magazine and International Opera Awards last year), and Daniil Trifonov’s Rachmaninov Variations from 2015, which enjoyed a new lease of life after the release of the same composer’s Second and Fourth Piano Concertos from the same artists this October.
No. 1
Rachel Podger (violin), Brecon Baroque
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 2
King’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC
No. 3
Murray Perahia (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6
MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7
No. 8
Adrian Chandler (violin/director), La Serenissima
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9
Daniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10
Paul Lewis (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 11
Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12
Musicaeterna, Teodor Currentzis
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13
Boris Giltburg (piano), Pavel Nikl (viola), Pavel Haas Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 14
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 15
Alexander Melnikov (pianos)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16
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 Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17
Joyce DiDonato (Didon), Michael Spyres (Énée), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Cassandre), Orchestre et Choeur philharmonique de Strasbourg, Badischer Staatsopernchor, Choeur de l’Opéra du Rhin, John Nelson
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18
Michael Volle (Hans Sachs), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser), Anne Schwanewilms (Eva), Daniel Behle (David), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Magdalene), Günther Groissböck (Pogner); Bayreuth Festival, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
Available Format: 2 DVD Videos
No. 19
Isabelle Faust (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 20
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21
Vox Luminis & Ensemble Masques, Lionel Meunier
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22
Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 23
Igor Levit (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Victoria Nava (soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Håkon Høgemo (Hardanger Fiddle); Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, Edward Gardner
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 26
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available Formats: CD + DVD Video, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 27
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 28
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Sophie Koch (mezzo), Riccardo Chailly
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 29
Alexander Melnikov (piano), with Olga Pashchenko (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 30
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 31
Arcadi Volodos (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 32
Hilary Hahn (violin)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 33
Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Teunis van der Zwart (horn), James Munro (double bass)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 34
Jerusalem Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 35
Alfred Brendel (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
No. 36
Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 37
Gewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 38
Czech Philharmonic, Jiří Bělohlávek
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 39
Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Il Pomo d'Oro, Zefira Valova
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 40
Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 41
Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Trondheim Soloists
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 42
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Edgar Moreau (cello), Gerard Caussé (viola), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 43
Daniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 44
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 45
Czech Philharmonic, Jiří Bělohlávek
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 46
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (mezzo-soprano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Nadine Sierra (soprano), Dame Josephine Barstow (narrator), Alessandro Carbonare (clarinet); Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 47
Albina Shagimuratova (Semiramide), Daniela Barcellona (Arsace), Mirco Palazzi (Assur), Barry Banks (Idreno), Gianluca Buratto (Oroe), Susana Gaspar (Azema), David Butt Philip (Mitrane), James Platt (L’ombra di Nino); Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder
Available Formats: 4 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 48
Federico Colli (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 49
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 50
Philippe Jaroussky (Orfeo), Amanda Forsythe (Euridice), Emőke Baráth (Amore); Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
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