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The Presto Chart - June 2024

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Chris O'Reilly
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Presto Classical Top 25Janine Jansen's 'top-drawer interpretations' of Sibelius's Violin Concerto and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä (released on Decca at the beginning of the month) proved our best-selling title of June, with other popular releases including Beethoven's Triple Concerto from a dream-team on Decca, Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque's The Muses Restor'd  (which topped the May chart), Czech songs from Magdalena Kožená, and the final instalment of Osmo Vänskä's Mahler cycle from Minnesota.

No. 1 (new entry)

Janine Jansen (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 2 (new entry)

Nicola Benedetti (violin), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Gerald Finley (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 3 (No. 1 last month)

Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 4 (new entry)

Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 5 (new entry)

Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Boychoir, Minnesota Chorale, Osmo Vänskä

Available formats: 2 SACD (ECOPAK)s, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 6 (No. 23 last month)

Paul Wee (piano), Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Michael Collins

Available format: SACD

No. 7 (new entry)

Mahler Academy Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 8 (new entry)

Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 9 (new entry)

Martin Roscoe (piano), Kathryn Stott (piano), BBC Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, George Lloyd

Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)

No. 10 (new entry)

John Osborn (Jean de Leyde), Elizabeth DeShong (Fidès), Mané Galoyan (Berthe), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Count Oberthal), London Symphony Orchestra, Lyon Opera Chorus, Mark Elder

Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 11 (new entry)

Simon Callaghan (piano), Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Modestas Pitrėnas

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 12 (No. 11 last month)

Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles

Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 13 (No. 24 last month)

Jakub Józef Orliński (Orfeo), Fatma Said (Amore), Elsa Dreisig (Euridice), Il Giardino d’Amore, Stefan Plewniak

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 14 (No. 7 last month)

Yunchan Lim (piano)

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 15 (new entry)

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 16 (new entry)

Takács Quartet

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 17 (new entry)

Robin Tritschler (tenor), Philip Higham (cello), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Sean Shibe (guitar)

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 18 (No. 16 last month)

Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Gottlob Frick (Hagen), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther), Claire Watson (Gutrune), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti

Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 19 (No. 4 last month)

Yuja Wang (piano)

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 20 (No. 1 in 2022)

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä

Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 21 (No. 8 last month)

Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 22 (No. 21 last month)

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck

Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 23 (No. 15 last month)

Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Gerhard Stolze (Mime), Hans Hotter (Wanderer), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Marga Höffgen (Erda), Kurt Böhme (Fafner), Dame Joan Sutherland (Waldvogel)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti

Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 24 (new entry)

Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy (piano)

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 25 (new entry)

James Buckle (alto saxophone), Tim McAllister (bass trombone), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson

Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

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