Our best-seller of the month is Isata Kanneh-Mason’s debut album celebrating the bicentenary of Clara Schumann’s birth, including the Piano Concerto which Schumann premiered aged sixteen, the Piano Sonata which remained unpublished until 1991, and two transcriptions of her husband’s songs – you can read our full review of the album here, and Katherine’s interview with Isata here.
Other newcomers include Handel Concerti Grossi from Bernhard Forck and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Wynton Marsalis’s Violin Concerto for Nicola Benedetti, and the world premiere recording of the complete string quartets of Czech composer and conductor Karel Kovařovic, best known today for directing the first performance of Dvořák’s Rusalka and for his revisions to the score of Janáček’s Jenůfa.
No. 1 (new entry)
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (No. 2 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. 4 (new entry)
Nicola Benedetti (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Stamic Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (new entry)
No. 7 (new entry)
Danish Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Concert Choir, Ádám Fischer
Available formats: 5 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (No. 3 last month)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (No. 10 last month)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (No. 4 last month)
Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 1 last month)
Lise Davidsen (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (No. 11 last month)
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (No. 9 last month)
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. 14 (No. 8 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. 15 (No. 14 last month)
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. 16 (new entry)
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Václava Housková (mezzo), VOICE, Victoria Samek (clarinet)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Handel's Queens
Cuzzoni and Faustina
Lucy Crowe, Mary Bevan (sopranos), London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
No. 19 (No. 22 last month)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (No. 13 last month)
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. 21 (new entry)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Available format: SACD
No. 22 (new entry)
Rachel Roberts (viola), Leonore Piano Trio
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Benjamin Appl (baritone), Helena Juntunen (soprano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Lund Male Chorus, Thomas Dausgaard
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (No. 5 last month)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (new entry)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
