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, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
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, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Ulster Orchestra, Codetta, Howard Shelley
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (new entry)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (No. 2 last month)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (No. 8 last month)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (new entry)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 1 last month)
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Holly Mathieson
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Available format: SACD
No. 13 (new entry)
The Jupiter Project
Mozart in the nineteenth-century drawing room
David Owen Norris (piano), Katy Bircher (flute), Caroline Balding (violin), Andrew Skidmore (cello)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
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, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (new entry)
The Tchaikovsky Project
Complete Symphonies & Piano Concertos, Orchestral Works
Kirill Gerstein (piano), Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (new entry)
Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (No. 3 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. 18 (new entry)
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 92, 75 & 44
transcribed for piano by Carl David Stegmann
Ivan Ilić (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (new entry)
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (No. 12 last month)
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (new entry)
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (No. 4 last month)
Nicola Benedetti (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (No. 7 last month)
Danish Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Concert Choir, Ádám Fischer
Available formats: 5 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (new entry)
Gounod: Faust
1859 version
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, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (new entry)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), The Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles, John Williams
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
