Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - October 2021
Canadian-Italian mezzo Emily D'Angelo's debut recording on Deutsche Grammophon entered the chart at No. 1 last month: featuring music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Missy Mazzoli, Sarah Kirkland Snider and Hildegard of Bingen, Enargeia was our Recording of the Week on 8th October, with Katherine describing the album as 'a hauntingly beautiful programme which works its own special magic and marks D'Angelo out as an artist determined to plough her own furrow'.
It's been a good month in general for Deutsche Grammophon (named Label of the Year at the Gramophone Awards in the first week of October), with pianists Daniil Trifonov and Víkingur Ólafsson sitting at Nos. 2 and 3 for their recent recordings of music by the Bach family (Trifonov) and Mozart and his contemporaries (Ólafsson). And in the wake of the great Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink's death on 21st October, there's been a resurgence of interest in his set of the complete Beethoven symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra, released in 2007 and described as 'a towering achievement' by The Times.
No. 1 (new entry)
Emily D'Angelo (mezzo-soprano), Das Freie Orchester Berlin, Jarkko Riihimäki
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 2 (No. 1 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 3 (new entry)
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Available Format: 2 CDs
No. 4 (new entry)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (No. 13 last month)
Alina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 6 (new entry)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Thibaut Garcia (guitar)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
Leonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Marin Alsop
Available Formats: 2 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (new entry)
Howard Shelley (piano/director), London Mozart Players
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Bernard Haitink
Available Formats: 6 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 11 (No. 3 last month)
Igor Levit (piano)
Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (No. 10 in April)
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Burcu Karadag (ney), Rafael Aguirre (guitar), vision string quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (No. 20 in December 2020)
Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Takács Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (No. 2 last month)
Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 15 (new entry)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 16 (No. 21 last month)
Michael Spyres (baritenor), Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Marko Letonja
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17 (new entry)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Sol Gabetta (cello)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (No. 6 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (new entry)
Steven Isserlis (cello), with Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 20 (No. 4 last month)
Sean Shibe (guitar)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 21 (new entry)
Cinquecento
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (No. 23 in March)
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 23 (No. 10 last month)
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Igor Markevitch
Available Format: 21 CDs
No. 25 (new entry)
Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor), Il Pomo d’Oro, Francesco Corti
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
Chris O'Reilly - Chief Executive
