Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - March 2019
An almost entirely new top 25 this month, with only three titles making a re-appearance from the February chart; there’s a healthy proportion of re-issues and historical recordings in amongst the mix, however, including Reginald Goodall’s 1981 Tristan and the first-ever CD release of Øivin Fjeldstad’s 1956 Götterdämmerung with Kirsten Flagstad and Set Svanholm on Australian Eloquence.
No. 1 (new entry)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe); Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (new entry)
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 4 (No. 1 last month)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
No. 6 (new entry)
Joyce El-Khoury (Countess Sylvia de Linarès), David Junghoon Kim (Leone de Casaldi), Laurent Naouri (Don Gaspar), Vito Priante (Don Fernand d’Aragon), Evgeny Stavinsky (The Monk / Father Superior)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sir Mark Elder
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (No. 12 last month)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Kirsten Flagstad (Brünnhilde), Set Svanholm (Siegfried), Egil Nordsjo (Hagen), Per Gronnenberg (Alberich), Waldemar Johnsen (Gunther), Ingrid Bjoner (Gutrune), Eva Gustavson (Waltraute), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Olvin Fjeldstad
Available Formats: 4 CDs, MP3, FLAC
No. 9 (new entry)
Ewa Pobłocka (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 11 (new entry)
John Mitchinson (Tristan), Linda Esther Gray (Isolde), Anne Wilkens (Brangaene), Gwynne Howell (Marke), Phillip Joll (Kurwenal), Nicholas Folwell (Melot), Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Reginald Goodall
Available Formats: 4 CDs, MP3, FLAC
No. 12 (new entry)
Valentina Lisitsa (piano), Alexei Kuznetsoff (piano)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (new entry)
Tasmin Little (violin) & John Lenehan (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (new entry)
Véronique Gens (soprano), Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 15 (No. 5 last month)
Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (new entry)
Elizabeth Llewellyn (Eigen), Elgan Llŷr Thomas (Orbin), Roland Wood (Caractacus), Christopher Purves (Arch-Druid, A Bard) & Alastair Miles (Claudius)
Huddersfield Choral Society, Orchestra of Opera North, Martyn Brabbins
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17 (new entry)
Madeleine Mitchell (violin), London Chamber Ensemble
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (new entry)
Janet Baker (mezzo), James King (tenor), Heather Harper (soprano), Norma Procter (contralto), Werner Hollweg (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Jessye Norman (soprano), Hermann Prey (bass-baritone)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (new entry)
Howard Shelley (piano & conductor), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 20 (new entry)
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (new entry)
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
Available Formats: 2 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (new entry)
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 23 (new entry)
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano), Berliner Philharmoniker, Mariss Jansons
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Artists include Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Adrian Boult, André Previn, Louis Frémaux, Jean Martinon, Leonard Bernstein, Michel Plasson, Louis Langrée, John Eliot Gardiner, Michel Plasson, Sir John Barbirolli, Charles Dutoit, John Nelson, André Cluytens
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
No. 25 (new entry)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
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