An Elizabethan Christmas from Fretwork and mezzo Helen Charlston proved our most popular title for December: featuring music by Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson and Weelkes, the album was released on Signum in October, and was one of our two Christmas Recordings of the Week (the other was Christiane Karg and Gerold Huber's 'Christmas Promenade' Licht der Welt, which sits at No. 16).
New festive titles from The Sixteen and the Choir of King's College Cambridge also made the Top 10, as did two of our Recordings of the Year: American pianist and composer Kit Armstrong's Visionaries of Piano Music (released on Deutsche Grammophon in the summer) and the Takács Quartet's disc of music by Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn, which came out on Hyperion at the end of October.
No. 1 (new entry)
An Elizabethan Christmas
Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes
Helen Charlston (mezzo), Fretwork
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
Available format: SACD
No. 3 (No. 11 in July)
The Visionaries of Piano Music
Works by William Byrd & John Bull
Kit Armstrong (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (No. 9 last month)
In the Bleak Midwinter
Christmas Carols From King's
Matthew Martin (organ), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Daniel Hyde
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (new entry)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (No. 11 last month)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (No. 8 last month)
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Available format: 2 CDs
No. 9 (No. 1 last month)
Takács Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (No. 11 in October)
Igor Levit (piano)
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 4 last month)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (No. 7 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Joshua Ryan & William Vann
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (No. 19 last month)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (No. 13 last month)
Price: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
The Mississippi River & Ethiopia's Shadow in America
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Jeter
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (new entry)
Licht der Welt
A Christmas Promenade
Christiane Karg (soprano), Gerold Huber (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (No. 3 last month)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Maxim Vengerov (violin), Kammerorchester Basel, Muhai Tang
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
Bruce Liu plays Chopin
Winner of the 18th International Frederic Chopin Competition
Bruce Liu (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (No. 2 last month)
Muse
Barber & Rachmaninoff
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (No. 6 last month)
Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor), Il Pomo d’Oro, Francesco Corti
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (No. 12 in July)
András Schiff (piano/director), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
Adriatic Voyage
Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia
The Illyria Consort, Bojan Čičić (violin), Gawain Glenton (cornetto), Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (No. 13 in June)
Hope Amid Tears
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (No. 20 in June)
Steven Osborne (piano), Paul Lewis (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (No. 23 last month)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki
Available format: SACD
