A very different take on the same work sits in the No. 2 spot: Chad Kelly’s new arrangement of the Variations for Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, which was described in The Guardian last week as 'a bold and different way to think about Bach’s unfathomable genius'. And Ólafsson's 2018 Bach album makes yet another reappearance in the Top 25, along with two more Deutsche Grammophon titles: Krystian Zimerman's recital of works by Szymanowski and Fabio Luisi's set of the Nielsen symphonies with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, both of which won Gramophone Awards last month.
No. 1 (No. 6 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Rachel Podger (violin), Brecon Baroque
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (new entry)
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (new entry)
Miloš Karadaglić (guitar), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (No. 4 last month)
Veronika Jarůšková (violin), Peter Jarůšek (cello), Boris Giltburg (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 9 last month)
Igor Levit (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (new entry)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
Solo
Matteis - Pisendel - Biber - Guillemain - Vilsmayr
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Folk Songs
Bartók, Berio, Ravel and Montsalvatge
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Czech Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle
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No. 10 (No. 7 last month)
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (new entry)
Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor), Il Pomo d'Oro
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No. 12 (No. 2 last month)
Nathaniel Hackmann (Curly), Sierra Boggess (Laurey), Rodney Earl Clarke (Jud Fry), Jamie Parker (Will Parker), Louise Dearman (Ado Annie), Sandra Marvin (Aunt Eller), Nadim Naaman (Ali Hakim), Leo Roberts (Andrew Carnes);
Oklahoma! Ensemble, Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available formats: 2 SACDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
I Fagiolini, The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
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No. 14 (new entry)
Anna Lapwood (organ)
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No. 15 (No. 1 last month)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Available format: 2 CDs
No. 16 (new entry)
Anna Dennis, Lucy Crowe (sopranos), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Robert Davies (baritone)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
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No. 17 (re-entry)
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
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No. 18 (re-entry)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (new entry)
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Paavo Järvi
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (No. 18 last month)
Anne-Catherine Gillet (Zanetta), Virginie Verrez (Le Prince Raphael), Antoinette Dennefeld (Régina), Josh Lovell (Le Prince Casimir)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus, Paul Daniel
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (new entry)
Lea Desandre (mezzo), Thomas Dunford (theorbo)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Guy Johnston (cello), Hallé Orchestra, Delyana Lazarova
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (new entry)
Aux étoiles
French Symphonic Poems
Orchestre National de Lyon, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (re-entry)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (new entry)
Jonathan Tetelman (tenor), PKF - Prague Philharmonia, Carlo Rizzi
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
