Our best-seller of the month is Paul Lewis’s recording of the complete Beethoven Bagatelles, released on Harmonia Mundi on 10th July – you can read our full review of the album here, and Katherine’s interview with the pianist (in which he discusses his recent experience of giving a live-streamed recital from an empty Wigmore Hall as well as Beethoven’s ‘often uncompromisingly uncomfortable’ piano-writing) here. The boxed set of Lewis’s complete Beethoven piano sonatas, concertos (with the late Jiří Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra) and Diabelli Variations has also enjoyed a second wave of interest, entering the chart at No. 5 - the 14-CD collection is one of the best bargains in our Harmonia Mundi special offer, which runs until late September.
No. 1 (new entry)
Paul Lewis (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Vilde Frang (violin), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (No. 1 last month)
Alina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
No. 6 (new entry)
Sarah Willis (horn), Havana Horns, Havana Lyceum Orchestra, José Antonio Méndez Padrón
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Joseph Spooner (cello), Christian Wilson (organ), Commotio, Matthew Berry
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
Oleg Tsibulko (bass), Russian National Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Available format: SACD
No. 10 (new entry)
Elīna Garanča (mezzo), Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 18 last July)
No. 12 (new entry)
Piers Lane (piano), The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Anna Patalong (Miss Julie), Benedict Nelson (Jean), Rosie Aldridge (Kristin), Samuel Sakker (Ulrik)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Available formats: 2 SACDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (No. 17 in May)
Maxim Rysanov (viola/conductor), Sinfonietta Rīga
Available format: SACD
No. 15 (No. 4 last month)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (No. 6 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (No. 3 last month)
Sean Shibe (guitar)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (No. 9 last month)
Nicola Benedetti (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (No. 18 last month)
Christiane Karg (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Werner Güra (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Pablo Heras-Casado
Available formats: 2 CDs & Download (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (new entry)
Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Available formats: 3 SACDs, Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (new entry)
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (No. 22 last month)
The Beethoven Connection
Sonatas by Clementi, Dussek, Hummel & Wölfl
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Matthew Schellhorn (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (No. 13 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (new entry)
Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
