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, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
The British Project
Elgar - Britten - Walton - Vaughan Williams
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (No. 3 last month)
Nicola Benedetti (violin), Benedetti Baroque
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 6 in April 2020)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (No. 5 last month)
Haydn 2032, Vol. 10
Les heures du jour
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (No. 7 last month)
Générations
Senaillé & Leclair: Sonates pour violon et clavecin
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), William Christie (harpsichord)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (No. 4 last month)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (new entry)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 1 last month)
Krystian Zimerman (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
Mikhail Davydov (bass-baritone), PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, Vladimir Gorbik
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (No. 2 last month)
Lise Davidsen (soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
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No. 14 (new entry)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (No. 8 last month)
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (new entry)
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
(English version)
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, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
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, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (No. 16 last month)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (new entry)
Daniele Orlando (violin), Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Available format: CD
No. 20 (new entry)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (No. 12 in April)
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. 22 (No. 3 in April 2019)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
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No. 23 (new entry)
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
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No. 24 (new entry)
Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Ingar Bergby
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (new entry)
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Fretwork, Silas Wollston
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
