For the second time this year, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London topped the Presto Chart for April, with their Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 proving our most popular title by some way; their latest album of English Music for Strings (our February best-seller) maintains its foothold in Top 10 at No. 8, whilst the first instalment of their Rachmaninoff series (Symphony No. 3 and The Isle of the Dead, released last October) has also enjoyed a resurgence of interest.
Other big-hitters for April included the world premiere audio recording of Thomas Adès's ballet Dante from the LA Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel on Nonesuch, the young Djibouti-born guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre's debut album on Deutsche Grammophon, and Fabio Luisi's much-praised survey of the complete Nielsen symphonies with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (now available as a boxed set following individual digital releases over the past few months).
No. 1 (No. 9 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (No. 11 last month)
Raphaël Feuillâtre (guitar)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (No. 5 last month)
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Quatuor Ebène
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (new entry)
Fantasie
Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards
Alexander Melnikov (harpsichord/fortepiano/tangent piano/piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Christiane Karg (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Semyon Bychkov
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (No. 4 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Anime Immortali
Mozart Arias
Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Kammerorchester Basel, Daniel Bard
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (No. 1 last month)
Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum)
Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (No. 2 last month)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
The London Haydn Quartet
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Michael Spyres (tenor), Il Pomo d’Oro, Francesco Corti
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (new entry)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
1874 Version
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 15 (No. 24 last month)
András Schiff (clavichord)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (new entry)
Ramón Vargas (Giorgio Argyll), Irene Roberts (Malvina Douglas), Elizabeth DeShong (Odoardo Douglas), Sally Matthews (Anna Ruthven), Iván Ayón-Rivas (Rodrigo), Goderdzi Janelidze (Guglielmo Ruthven)
Britten Sinfonia, Opera Rara Chorus, Carlo Rizzi
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Coro Gulbenkian, Chœur de l’OnR, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, John Nelson
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (No. 12 last month)
Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (No. 4 in November 2022 chart)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (new entry)
Rachel Podger (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
Prism V
Beethoven, Webern, Bach
Danish String Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Byrd 1589
Songs of sundrie natures
Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (No. 3 last month)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (No. 20 in November 2022 chart)
Rachel Podger (violin)
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
