Alina Ibragimova's Paganini Caprices on Hyperion occupies pride of place in the May chart - recorded during lockdown last summer, the accounts were praised in this month's Gramophone for her 'all-facilitating technique' and 'amazing imagination', and in The Guardian for the 'addictive variety, grace and insouciance' which she brings to these formidable pieces. You can read David's full review of the recording here.
No. 1 (No. 7 last month)
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (No. 1 last month)
Alexandra Whittingham (guitar)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Lucy Crowe (Rodelinda), Iestyn Davies (Bertarido), Joshua Ellicott (Grimoaldo), Brandon Cedel (Garibaldo), Jess Dandy (Eduige), Tim Mead (Unulfo)
The English Concert, Harry Bicket
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Ombra Compagna
Mozart Concert Arias
Lisette Oropesa (soprano), Il Pomo d'Oro, Antonello Manacorda
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 2 last month)
London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Boris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (No. 5 last month)
Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 4 last month)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
American Quintets
Amy Beach - Florence Price - Samuel Barber
Matthew Rose (bass), Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
The Moon & The Forest
Guitar Concertos by Joby Talbot and Howard Shore
Miloš Karadaglić (guitar), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ben Gernon (Talbot); National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley (Shore)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (No. 14 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (new entry)
Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (No. 9 last month)
Josquin: Masses
Hercules Dux Ferrarie, D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 176.4 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
No. 19 (No. 13 last month)
Theotime Langlois de Swart (violin), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (new entry)
Hesperion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (new entry)
James Ehnes (violin)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (No. 18 last month)
Danny Driver (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Jonathan Plowright (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (new entry)
Yukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Available format: SACD
No. 25 (new entry)
Mozart: Gran Partita
Wind Serenades K. 361 & 375
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
