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Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - January 2025

Presto Chart logo: 'Classical Top 25' in white on a blue background, with the Presto logo aboveA Palestrina collection from the Choir of Clare College Cambridge and Graham Ross (released on Harmonia Mundi to mark the 500th anniversary of the composer's birth) proved our most best-selling title of January - including the Missa Emendemus in melius, Missa Memor esto verbi tui and the motet Ad te levavi oculos meos (plus settings of the same texts by William Byrd, Robert White and William Mundy), the album was featured as our Recording of the Week on 10th January and also received four stars in the latest issue of BBC Music Magazine.

Other popular new releases included Seong-Jin Cho's set of the complete Ravel piano works on Deutsche Grammophon, a third helping of Ruth Gipps's orchestral music on Chandos, and Simon Rattle's live recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra on BR Klassik. And Víkingur Ólafsson continues to maintain a strong foothold in the chart: his account of Bach's Goldberg Variations (which was released in October 2023 and won a Grammy this weekend) sits at No. 7, with his previous Bach project and albums devoted to Debussy/Rameau and Philip Glass all making the Top 25.

No. 1 (new entry)

Byrd, White, Mundy

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 2 (new entry)

Martin Owen (horn), BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 3 (new entry)

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 4 (new entry)

Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 5 (new entry)

The Nash Ensemble

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 6 (new entry)

Stile Antico

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 7 (No. 4 last month)

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 8 (No. 4 last month)

Vilde Frang (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 9 (No. 9 last month)

The 2023 Sessions

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

Available Formats: 2 CDs + Blu-ray, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 10 (No. 15 last month)

Chadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)

Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 11 (No. 14 last month)

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 12 (new entry)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti

Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 13 (No. 8 last month)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petr Popelka

Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 14 (No. 20 last month)

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 15 (new entry)

Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Julie Roset (soprano), Le Consort

Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 16 (No. 13 last month)

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

Available Formats: 2 Vinyl Records, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 17 (No. 18 last month)

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Siggi String Quartet

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 18 (No. 12 last month)

Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets

Steven Isserlis (cello), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 19 (No. 23 in 2024 chart)

Hilary Hahn (violin)

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 20 (new entry)

Houston Symphony, Stadium Symphony of New York (NYPO), American Symphony, Stokowski Symphony, Leopold Stokowski

Available Formats: MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 21 (back catalogue)

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeny Mravinsky

Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 22 (No. 22 last month)

Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel

Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 23 (new entry)

Tonkünstler-Orchester, Ola Rudner

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 24 (new entry)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/director), Thomas Kaufmann (cello), Camerata Bern

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

No. 25 (new entry)

Benedetta Mazzucato (Arsilda), Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Lisea), Marie Lys (Mirinda), Shira Patchornik (Nicandro), José Coca Loza (Cisardo), Nicolò Balducci (Barzane), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Tamese)

La Cetra Basel, Andrea Marcon

Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV