An all-new top five this month, with three albums from Warner Classics and Erato making an appearance - John Nelson's La damnation de Faust from Strasbourg with Michael Spyres and Joyce DiDonato, baroque favourites from Alison Balsom and her ensemble, and Beatrice Rana's electrifying recital of Ravel and Stravinsky transcriptions. But the top spot goes to an album with 'an irrepressible air of fun about it' - Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima's The Godfather on Signum, which features concertos by Telemann and his godson CPE Bach, plus works by Pisendel, Brescianello, Vivaldi and Fasch.
No. 1 (new entry)
The Godfather
Masters of the German & Italian Baroque
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Pavel Haas Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Michael Spyres (Faust), Joyce DiDonato (Marguerite), Nicolas Courjal (Méphistophélès), Alexandre Duhamel (Brander)
Coro Gulbenkian, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson
Available formats: 2 CDs + DVD Video, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Royal Fireworks
Bach – Handel – Purcell – Telemann
Alison Balsom (trumpet), Balsom Ensemble
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 19 last month)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Arcadi Volodos (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Stile Antico
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (No. 2 last month)
Destination Rachmaninov - Arrival
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Daniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (new entry)
Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Cyril Auvity, Chamber Choir of Namur, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (No. 4 last month)
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos
The five Beethoven piano concertos on period instruments
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano), Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Available format: 2 SACDs
No. 14 (No. 8 last month)
Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (new entry)
Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor), Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (No. 5 last month)
James Ehnes (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Takács Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
Rachel Podger (violin/director), Brecon Baroque
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (new entry)
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (new entry)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (No. 7 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
Kati Debretzeni (violin), English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Paul Wee (piano)
Available format: SACD
No. 24 (No. 1 last month)
Robert Murray, Cody Quattlebaum, Elizabeth Watts, Ruby Hughes, Tim Mead, Gwilym Bowen, Nicky Spence
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (No. 9 last month)
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
