Stephen Hough’s superb accounts of Brahms’s late piano works on Hyperion (Gramophone’s Recording of the Month) is our best-selling album for January, closely followed by the third instalment of Martyn Brabbins’s cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with third place going to Sheku Kanneh-Mason for his recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra on Decca.
No. 1 (new entry)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), Vox Luminis, A Nocte Temporis, Lionel Meunier
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons
Available formats: 2 CDs & Download (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (new entry)
Joyce DiDonato (Agrippina), Elsa Benoit (Poppea), Luca Pisaroni (Claudio), Franco Fagioli (Nerone), Jakub Józef Orliński (Ottone), Andrea Mastroni (Pallante), Carlo Vistoli (Narciso), Biagio Pizzuti (Lesbo), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Giunone)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Xenia Löffler (oboe), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (No. 23 in August chart)
Danish Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Concert Choir, Ádám Fischer
Available formats: 5 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Staatskapelle Weimar, Knabenchor der Jenaer Philharmonie, Damen des Opernchores des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar, Kirill Karabits
Available format: CD
No. 10 (No. 2 in December chart)
James Ehnes (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 11 in December chart)
Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
Louise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (No. 10 in December chart)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (No. 8 in December chart)
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (new entry)
Angela Meade, Erin Wall, Lisette Oropesa (sopranos), Elizabeth Bishop, Mihoko Fujimura (contraltos), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Markus Werba (baritone), John Relyea (bass)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (new entry)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (No. 1 in December chart)
Gautier Capuçon (cello), Yuja Wang (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Available format: SACD
No. 19 (new entry)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (No. 6 in December chart)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (new entry)
Akademie fϋr Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 176.4 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Lars Vogt (piano/director), Royal Northern Sinfonia
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (No. 3 in December chart)
Marlis Petersen (Leonore), Maximilian Schmitt (Florestan), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Rocco), Johannes Weisser (Pizarro), Robin Johannsen (Marzelline), Johannes Chum (Jaqino), Tareq Nazmi (Don Fernando), Florian Feth, Julian Popken (Two Prisoners)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (No. 14 in July chart)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
