Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - August 2019
Our best-seller of the month is Mahan Esfahani's 'intellectually satisfying and profoundly emotionally rewarding' recording of Bach Toccatas, performed on a reconstructed Michael Mietke instrument fitted with a 16’ bass coupler and released on Hyperion at the beginning of August – you can read our full review of the album here, and David’s interview with Mahan here. Several of last Friday’s new releases are already proving extremely popular, with Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien’s Brahms Violin Sonatas (also on Hyperion), John Wilson’s debut recording of Korngold with Sinfonia of London, and Rumon Gamba’s second volume of British Tone Poems on Chandos (both on Chandos) all making the Top Ten in the space of just 72 hours!
No. 1 (new entry)
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
Cecilia Bartoli (Isabella), Edgardo Rocha (Lindoro), Ildar Abdrazakov (Mustafà), Alessandro Corbelli (Taddeo), Rebeca Olvera (Elvira), Rosa Bove (Zulma), José Coca Loza (Haly)
Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier
Available Format: 2 DVD Videos
Cecilia Bartoli (Isabella), Edgardo Rocha (Lindoro), Ildar Abdrazakov (Mustafà), Alessandro Corbelli (Taddeo), Rebeca Olvera (Elvira), Rosa Bove (Zulma), José Coca Loza (Haly)
Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier
Available Format: Blu-ray
No. 3 (new entry)
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Thomas Adès (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
Ulster Orchestra, Codetta, Howard Shelley
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (new entry)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (No. 2 last month)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (No. 8 last month)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 11 (No. 1 last month)
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Holly Mathieson
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (new entry)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (new entry)
David Owen Norris (piano), Katy Bircher (flute), Caroline Balding (violin), Andrew Skidmore (cello)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 14 (new entry)
Klaus Florian Vogt (Tamino), Christiane Karg (Pamina), Rolando Villazón (Papageno), Regula Mühlemann (Papagena), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Albina Shagimuratova (Königin der Nacht), Paul Schweinester (Monostatos)
RIAS Kammerchor, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 15 (new entry)
Kirill Gerstein (piano), Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (new entry)
Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17 (No. 3 last month)
Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (new entry)
Ivan Ilić (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (new entry)
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 20 (No. 12 last month)
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
Available Formats: 2 CDs + DVD Video, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (new entry)
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (No. 4 last month)
Nicola Benedetti (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 23 (No. 7 last month)
Danish Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Concert Choir, Ádám Fischer
Available Formats: 5 CDs, MP3, FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Benjamin Bernheim (Faust), Véronique Gens (Marguerite), Andrew Foster-Williams (Méphistophélès), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Valentin), Juliette Mars (Siebel), Ingrid Perruche (Marthe), Anas Séguin (Wagner/Un mendiant)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Available Formats: 3 CDs + Book, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25 (new entry)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), The Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles, John Williams
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
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