Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - April 2020
For the first time in the Presto Chart’s history, we have an album maintaining its foothold at No. 1 from the previous month – namely Víkingur Ólafsson’s beguiling recital of Debussy and Rameau on Deutsche Grammophon, which was one of our March Recordings of the Week and received five stars in The Times as well as a rave review in this month’s Gramophone. If you missed it first time round, you can read James’s in-depth interview with Vikingur about what he describes as ‘a conversation between two composers across almost two hundred years’ here. The runaway success of this latest album seems to have also given a new lease of life to the Icelandic pianist’s previous release, an all-Bach programme which was BBC Music Magazine’s 2019 Recording of the Year and is currently sitting pretty at No. 6.
No. 1 (No. 1 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (new entry)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Anna Dennis (soprano), Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), Roderick Williams (baritone), Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
Andrew Haveron (violin), RTE Concert Orchestra, John Wilson, Sinfonia of London Chamber Ensemble
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
Véronique Gens (soprano), I Giardini
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (No. 24 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7
(currently download-only - due for physical release on 8th May)
Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (No. 2 last month)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10 (No. 5 last month)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 11 (new entry)
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Isabelle Faust (violin) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Prague Philharmonia, Jirí Belohlávek
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
No. 12 (new entry)
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (new entry)
Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (No. 21 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 Formats: 2 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 15 (new entry)
Lars Vogt (piano), Northern Sinfonia
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (No. 12 last month)
Ludwig Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17 (No. 6 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (No. 16 last month)
Chouchane Siranossian (violin), Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (new entry)
Mary Bevan (soprano), The Sixteen, Britten Sinfonia, Genesis Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 20 (No. 9 last month)
Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (No. 17 last month)
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (new entry)
Tenebrae, Nigel Short
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 23 (new entry)
Cuarteto Casals
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25 (new entry)
Rachel Mahon (organ)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
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