In the lead by some margin this month are British pianists Steven Osborne and Paul Lewis, whose enchanting recital of piano-duets by Ravel, Fauré, Satie, Poulenc, Stravinsky and Debussy on Hyperion was our Recording of the Week in the middle of March: read our full review of this 'true meeting of musical minds' here.
There's a French flavour, too, to our second-best-seller, Hilary Hahn's Paris with Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France on Deutsche Grammophon. The album features works by Chausson and Prokofiev as well as the world premiere recording of Rautavaara's Deux Sérénades - written for these artists towards the end of his life, with the orchestration completed by his compatriot Kalevi Aho following the composer's death in 2016. Look out for Katherine's interview with Hilary about this 'dream project' after Easter...
No. 1 (new entry)
Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Paris
Chausson - Rautavaara - Prokofiev
Hilary Hahn (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Mahler: Symphony No. 10
performing version by Deryck Cooke
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Available format: SACD
No. 4 (new entry)
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stephen Hough (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Theotime Langlois de Swart (violin), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 3 last month)
Freiburger Barockconsort, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Clair-Obscur
Strauss - Berg - Zemlinsky
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
Lise Davidsen (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Rachel Podger (violin), Christopher Glynn (piano)
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (new entry)
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Available format: SACD
No. 11 (new entry)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel, Marta Gardolińska
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
Danny Driver (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (No. 7 last month)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (new entry)
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Stuart Jackson (tenor), Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (new entry)
Steven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano)
Available format: SACD
No. 16 (No. 8 last month)
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. 17 (No. 2 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. 18 (new entry)
Mary Bevan (soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), William Vann (piano), Thomas Gould (violin)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (new entry)
El León de Oro, Peter Phillips, Marco Antonio García de Paz
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (new entry)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (No. 4 last month)
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (No. 23 last month)
Ksenija Sidorova (accordion)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (No. 16 last month)
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (new entry)
Mahani Teave (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (new entry)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
