One of our clearest winners ever for Best-Seller of the Month here, with Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson’s mesmerising new album of Rameau and Debussy (released last Friday on Deutsche Grammophon) selling almost as many copies as the rest of the Top Five combined! You can read James’s very insightful interview with him about how the project took shape here. Víkingur’s previous album, an all-Bach programme released in September 2018 and crowned Recording of the Year at the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards, has also acquired something of a new lease of life and makes a reappearance at No. 24.
No. 1 (new entry)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (No. 15 last month)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Adès Conducts Adès
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra & Totentanz
Mark Stone (baritone), Kirill Gerstein (piano), Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (No. 5 last month)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Elim Chan
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (No. 1 in overall 2019 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)
No. 6 (No. 1 last month)
Escales
French Orchestral Works
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Chen Reiss (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
Ailyn Pérez, Christianne Stotijn, Michael Spyres, Jan Martínik, Kateřina Kněžíková, Svatopluk Sem; Czech Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jiří Bělohlávek, Jakub Hrůša
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (No. 10 last month)
Steven Osborne (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (new entry)
Matthias Goerne (baritone), Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
La Passione
Works by Grisey, Nono & Haydn
Ludwig Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Federico Colli (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (No. 4 last month)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (No. 8 last month)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (new entry)
Chouchane Siranossian (violin), Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (No. 9 last month)
Sarah Fox (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo), Toby Spence (tenor), Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)
Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, William Vann
Available formats: 2 SACDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (No. 2 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, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (new entry)
Dante Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (No. 14 last month)
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 format: 2 SACDs
No. 22 (No. 21 last month)
Leonore Piano Trio
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (No. 6 last month)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (No. 4 in overall 2019 chart)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (No. 17 last month)
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, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
