Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - January 2021
Despite only being released last Friday, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London’s magnificent recording of music for strings by Britten, Bridge, Berkeley and Bliss on Chandos tops the January chart: read James’s full review of the album here.
Several other very recent releases also made the Top 25, with the first instalment of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Rachmaninov project with the Philadelphia Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon (Gramophone’s current recording of the Month) entering at No. 4, and Piotr Anderszewski’s selections from Book Two of The Well-Tempered Clavier on Warner at No. 8. And perhaps as a result of insomnia being more prevalent than usual over these last few troubling weeks, the eight-hour version of Max Richter’s Sleep from 2015 has made a comeback at No. 15…
No. 1 (new entry)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
Howard Shelley (piano/director), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (new entry)
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
Christine Rice (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (new entry)
Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), René Barbera (Idamore), Misha Kiria (Zarete), Marko Mimica (Akebare), Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 9 (No. 8 in December 2020 chart)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
Lenneke Ruiten (Armida), Teresa Iervolino (Ismene), Florie Valiquette (Rinaldo), Ashley Riches (Ubaldo)
Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 11 (new entry)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (No. 7 in December 2020 chart)
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (No. 3 in December 2020 chart)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (No. 5 in December 2020 chart)
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 15 (new entry)
Max Richter (piano, organ, synthesizers, electronics), Grace Davidson (soprano)
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
Available Formats: 8 CDs + Blu-ray Audio, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (No. 14 in December 2020 chart)
Voces8
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17 (new entry)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Sol Gabetta (cello), Francisco Coll, Camerata Bern
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (No. 9 in December 2020 chart)
Sean Shibe (guitar)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (new entry)
Arcadia Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 20 (No. 23 in December 2020 chart)
Alina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 21 (new entry)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 22 (No. 11 in December 2020 chart)
Michael Spyres (tenor), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 23 (new entry)
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto/director), Orfeo 55
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
London Haydn Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 25 (new entry)
Nicolas Namoradze (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
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