The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and the Dmitri Ensemble's Ice Land (featuring works by composers including Sigurður Sævarsson, Anna Þorvaldsdóttir, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson and Jón Ásgeirsson tops the best-sellers this week: you can read David's full review of the album here.
The great film-music composer John Williams's debut concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker also proved popular, with both the standard CD edition and Blu-ray version appearing in the Top 10, whilst last month's best-seller from Marc-André Hamelin is still attracting attention at No. 12...In case you missed it, here's our in-depth interview with the Canadian pianist about his love of the keyboard works of CPE Bach, and why (perhaps contrary to popular perception!) he's 'not interested in difficulty for its own sake'.
No. 1 (new entry)
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Graham Ross
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (No. 4 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
No. 5 (new entry)
Bruno Delepelaire (cello), Berliner Philharmoniker, John Williams
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (new entry)
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Available formats: 6 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Available format: CD
No. 8 (new entry)
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Les Ombres
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (new entry)
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (new entry)
Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (No. 1 last month)
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (new entry)
Beethoven Révolution Vol. II
Symphonies 6 to 9
Sara Gouzy (soprano), Salome Fischer (alto), Mingjie Lei (tenor), Manuel Walser (baritone), Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
Available formats: 3 SACDs, Download & Streaming (up to 88.2 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (No. 7 last month)
Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (No. 2 last month)
Paul Lewis (piano)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Peter Holder (organ), Westminster Abbey Choir, James O’Donnell
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (No. 8 last month)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (No. 9 last month)
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (new entry)
Phantasm
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Julien Behr (Pelléas), Vannina Santoni (Mélisande), Alexandre Duhamel (Golaud), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Geneviève), Jean Teitgen (Arkel)
Les Siècles, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lille, François-Xavier Roth
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (new entry)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Live at Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany, 29th July 1951
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elisabeth Höngen (alto), Hans Hopf (tenor), Otto Edelmann (bass)
Festspielorchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Available format: SACD
No. 25 (No. 5 last month)
Fretwork, Silas Wollston, David Miller
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
