Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - August 2021
Guitarist Sean Shibe's debut album on Pentatone Camino tops the August chart by a clear margin, following stellar reviews in The Sunday Times ('one of the most compelling and touching recitals for the instrument I can recall') , Gramophone (who praised his 'exquisite sense of space and unfolding'), The Guardian and on our own website - you can read Katherine's in-depth interview with Sean about a project which he describes as 'a profound spiritual journey' here.
Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson's exquisite and thought-provoking recital of music by Mozart and his contemporaries Galuppi, Cimarosa, Haydn and CPE Bach also makes an early entry in the top 10, despite only having been released last Friday - read James's full review of 'another exceptional album from this phenomenally accomplished performer' here. .
No. 1 (new entry)
Sean Shibe (guitar)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (new entry)
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (No. 3 last month)
Nicola Benedetti (violin), Benedetti Baroque
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (No. 6 in April 2020)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (No. 5 last month)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (No. 7 last month)
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), William Christie (harpsichord)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 9 (No. 4 last month)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 11 (No. 1 last month)
Krystian Zimerman (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (new entry)
Mikhail Davydov (bass-baritone), PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, Vladimir Gorbik
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 13 (No. 2 last month)
Lise Davidsen (soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (new entry)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 15 (No. 8 last month)
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (new entry)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Dominique Horwitz (narrator), Lorenzo Coppola, Javier Zafra, Reinhold Friedrich, Jörgen van Rijen, Wies de Boevé, Raymond Curfs, Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17 (new entry)
Véronique Gens (soprano), Ensemble Les Surprises, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (No. 16 last month)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (new entry)
Daniele Orlando (violin), Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 20 (new entry)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 21 (No. 12 in April)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (No. 3 in April 2019)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 23 (new entry)
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Ingar Bergby
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 25 (new entry)
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Fretwork, Silas Wollston
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Chris O'Reilly - Chief Executive
