The fifth instalment of Andris Nelsons's Bruckner cycle from Leipzig (which began in 2017 with Symphony No. 3 and continued last month with Nos. 2 & 8) tops the February chart, closely followed by our January best-seller English Music for Strings from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London on Chandos: you can read James's review of the Bruckner here.
Two March releases from BIS have already hit the ground running via pre-orders, with the Chiaroscuro Quartet's latest Haydn recording sitting at No. 17 and Osmo Vänskä's Mahler 10 with the Minnesota Orchestra (of which more tomorrow...) entering at No. 20.
No. 1 (new entry)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (No. 1 last month)
English Music For Strings
Britten, Bliss, Bridge, Berkeley
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Freiburger Barockconsort, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (No. 4 last month)
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Frédéric Chaslin
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 7 last month)
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo), Werner Güra (tenor), Shenyang (bass-baritone)
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (new entry)
Settecento
Baroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States
Tabea Debus (recorders), La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 21 last month)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (No. 3 last month)
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Violins of Hope
Heggie, Schubert & Mendelssohn
Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Daniel Hope (violin), Sean Mori (violin), Kay Stern (violin), Dawn Harms (violin), Patricia Heller (viola), Emil Miland (cello)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (new entry)
Polina Pasztircsák (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Steve Davislim (tenor), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (new entry)
Daniel Hope (violin), Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (No. 8 last month)
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Available format: SACD
No. 18 (new entry)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (No. 24 last month)
London Haydn Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (new entry)
Mahler: Symphony No. 10
performing version by Deryck Cooke
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Available format: SACD
No. 21 (new entry)
Anna Dennis (Semele), Richard Burkhard (Jupiter), Helen Charlston (Juno), Aoife Miskelly (Ino), William Wallace (Athamas), Héloïse Bernard (Iris)
Academy of Ancient Music, Julian Perkins
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d’Oro
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Ksenija Sidorova (accordion)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (new entry)
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (new entry)
Stile Antico
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
