András Schiff's all-Bach recital Clavichord on ECM (featuring a selection of the two- and three-part inventions, the Capriccio sopra la lontananza de il fratello dilettissimo and the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue BWV903) proved our best-selling January recording, despite having only been released five days ago! Reviewing the album last Friday, David observed that 'in many ways the clavichord’s tone is perfect for this kind of music – less harsh than the bright sound of the harpsichord, which can be difficult to adjust to, yet having enough of an attack to make polyphonic textures transparent and clear in a way that they might not be on the organ' - read the full article here.
Two recent Building A Library choices (Boris Giltburg's Rachmaninov Preludes from 2019 and Klaus Tennstedt's live 1983 recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 6 from the BBC Proms) also feature in the Top 25, and John Wilson's second album of English Music for Strings makes a premature appearance at No. 13 - more about that one when it's released this coming Friday...
No. 1 (new entry)
András Schiff (clavichord)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Timothy Ridout (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
Takács Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Véronique Gens (soprano), Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (new entry)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Fazıl Say (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Matthias Goerne (baritone), Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
Simon Callaghan (piano), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen , Modestas Pitrėnas
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (No. 10 in April 2019 chart)
Boris Giltburg (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (new entry)
Stile Antico
Available formats: Presto CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (new entry)
Tom and Will
Weelkes & Byrd: 400 Years
The King's Singers, Fretwork
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (new entry)
Renée Fleming (soprano), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (No. 21 in overall 2022 chart)
Lisette Oropesa (Theodora), Joyce DiDonato (Irene), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Didymus), Michael Spyres (Septimius), John Chest (Valens); Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (new entry)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Grażyna Bacewicz: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 1
WDR Sinfonieorchester, Łukasz Borowicz
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
Michael Collins (clarinet), BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (No. 22 in overall 2022 chart)
A Golden Cello Decade
1878-1888
Steven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano), Olivia Jageurs (harp)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (new entry)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (No. 5 in overall 2022 chart)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sakari Oramo
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (No. 1 in overall 2022 chart)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (new entry)
Brahms Analogue
Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Four Serious Songs
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (No. 31 in overall 2022 chart)
Beethoven Révolution Vol. II
Symphonies 6 à 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)
