Our best-seller of the month is Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen’s debut album on Decca, which includes Strauss’s Four Last Songs and arias and scenes from two of her signature-roles, Elisabeth from Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Strauss’s Ariadne – you can read our full review of the album here, and Katherine’s interview with Davidsen (given the morning after her full-role debut as Elisabeth) here.
Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s recording of two symphonies by Mieczysław Weinberg (whose centenary falls this year) continues to attract attention, slipping down just one place from the top spot in last month’s chart, and Alexandre Kantorow’s album of the last three Saint-Saëns piano concertos makes an appearance at No. 23 in the wake of his victory at the International Tchaikovsky Competition last week.
No. 1 (No. 7 last month)
Lise Davidsen (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (No. 1 last month)
Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (No. 3 last month)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 6 last month)
Rachel Podger (violin)
Available formats: 2 SACDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (No. 22 last month)
Emma Bell (Vanessa), Virginie Verrez (Erika), Edgaras Montvidas (Anatol), Rosalind Plowright (The Old Baroness)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jakub Hrůša (conductor) & Keith Warner (director)
Available format: DVD Video
Emma Bell (Vanessa), Virginie Verrez (Erika), Edgaras Montvidas (Anatol), Rosalind Plowright (The Old Baroness)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jakub Hrůša (conductor) & Keith Warner (director)
Available format: Blu-ray
No. 8 (No. 9 last month)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Cyrille Dubois (Tarare), Jean-Sebastian Bou (Sultan Altar), Karine Deshayes (Astasie)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (No. 2 last month)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 12 in April chart)
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
Simon O’Neill (Siegfried), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Iain Paterson (The Wanderer), Martin Winkler (Alberich), Clive Bayley (Fafner), Malin Christensson (Woodbird), Anna Larsson (Erda), Rachel Nicholls (Brünnhilde)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
Available formats: 4 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Aude Extrémo (La Périchole), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Piquillo), Alexandre Duhamel (Don Andrès de Ribeira), Eric Huchet (Le comte de Panatellas), Marc Mauillon (Don Pedro de Hinoyosa)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Marc Minkowski
Available formats: 2 CDs + Book, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (new entry)
Guy Johnston (cello), Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Britten Sinfonia, King's College Choir Cambridge, King's Voices, Christopher Seaman
Available formats: 2 SACDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (No. 5 last month)
András Schiff (fortepiano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (No. 10 last month)
Rowan Pierce (soprano) & Timothy West (narrator)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Ladies of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Andrew Manze
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (No. 8 last month)
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (new entry)
Trio Zimmermann
Available format: SACD
No. 20 (new entry)
Mary Bevan (Venus), Susanna Fairbairn (Pallas), Gillian Ramm (Juno), Ed Lyon (Paris), Anthony Gregory (Mercury), Andrew Mahon (bass)
The Brook Street Band, John Andrews
Available format: SACD
No. 21 (new entry)
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Kļava
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (No. 13 last month)
Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Available format: SACD
No. 24 (new entry)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Darrell Ang
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (No. 12 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
