The Takács Quartet's superb accounts of string quartets by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn (which was released on Hyperion at the end of last month and features in our Top 100 Recordings of the Year) tops the chart for November; you can read James's full review of this feast of 'impeccable ensemble playing' here.
November releases from Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, Cecilia Bartoli, and the Choir of King's College Cambridge also appear amongst the best-sellers, whilst Víkingur Ólafsson's Mozart & Contemporaries maintains a foothold in the Top 10 for the third month running, and Bernard Haitink's 2007 set of the complete Beethoven symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra continues to attract attention in the wake of the great Dutch maestro's death in October.
No. 1 (new entry)
Takács Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Muse
Barber & Rachmaninov
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Kammerorchester Basel, Muhai Tang
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (No. 15 last month)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Orchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott
Available formats: 2 SACDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 25 last month)
Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor), Il Pomo d’Oro, Francesco Corti
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (No. 2 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (No. 3 last month)
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Available format: 2 CDs
No. 9 (new entry)
In the Bleak Midwinter
Christmas Carols From King's
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Daniel Hyde, Matthew Martin (organ)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (No. 19 in September)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (new entry)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
Sabine Devieilhe (Céphise), Cyrille Dubois (Achante), Judith Van Wanroij (Zirphile)
Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie, Alexis Kossenko
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Jeter
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (No. 20 last month)
Camino
Federico Mompou, Maurice Ravel, Manuel de Falla, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc
Sean Shibe (guitar)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (No. 5 last month)
Alina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (new entry)
No. 17 (No. 13 last month)
Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Takács Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (No. 13 in January)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (No. 10 last month)
Twyla Robinson (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo soprano), John Mac Master (tenor) & Gerald Finley (bass), Gordan Nikolitch (violin), Tim Hugh (cello) & Lars Vogt (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Bernard Haitink
Available format: 6 SACDs
No. 21 (new entry)
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (No. 8 last month)
Pyrotechnia
Fire & Fury from 18th-Century Italy
Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki
Available format: SACD
No. 24 (No. 4 last month)
Bach: Ich habe genug
Cantatas BWV 32, 82 & 106
Joanne Lunn, Katie Bray, Hugo Hymas, Robert Davies, Matthew Brook
The Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (No. 12 last month)
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Burcu Karadag (flute), Rafael Aguirre (guitar), vision string quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
