Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - February 2020
Top of the pile this month is Escales, John Wilson’s second album with Sinfonia of London on Chandos – you can read James’s interview with him about this collection of French orchestral works (and their debut recording of Korngold, which is still maintaining a foothold in the chart six months on from its release!) here.
No. 1 (No. 16 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 2 (No. 6 last month)
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, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (new entry)
Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Elim Chan
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (new entry)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (No. 1 last month)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (new entry)
Sarah Fox (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Henry Waddington (bass-baritone); Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, William Vann
Available Formats: 2 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
Steven Osborne (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 11 (new entry)
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (new entry)
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (No. 22 last month)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 14 (new entry)
Benjamin Bruns (Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Clint van der Linde (baritone), Makato Sakurada (tenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Christian Immler (baritone), Toru Kaku (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Available Formats: 2 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 15 (new entry)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (new entry)
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17 (new entry)
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Robin Tritschler, Krešimir Stražanac, Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Stephan Gähler, Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Philipp Kaven, Magdalena Podkościelna, Peter Kooij (bass)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (No. 13 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (new entry)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 20 (No. 24 in December chart)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (new entry)
Leonore Piano Trio
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 22 (No. 3 last month)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 23 (No. 7 last month)
Xenia Löffler (oboe), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25 (No. 2 last month)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
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