Other big hitters included an eerily atmospheric recording of Hans Zender's 'composed interpretation' of Winterreise from Allan Clayton, Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon on Signum, late Brahms from Piotr Anderszewski on Erato, and two Deutsche Grammophon bestsellers from 2025: Alice Sara Ott's set of John Field's complete nocturnes, and the ever-popular Víkingur Ólafsson's Op. 109.
No. 1 (new entry)
Quatuor Ébène, Belcea Quartet
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 2 (new entry)
Hans Zender: Schubert's Winterreise
A Composed Interpretation
Allan Clayton (tenor), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 3 (No. 1 last month)
Opus 109
Beethoven - Bach - Schubert
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 4 (No. 10 last month)
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 5 (new entry)
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 6 (No. 9 last month)
Julie Roset (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo). Lucile Richardot (alto), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), Christian Immler (bass), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 7 (No. 12 last month)
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 8 (new entry)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 9 (new entry)
Eric Lu (piano)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 10 (No. 8 last month)
Krystian Zimerman (piano), Maria Nowak (violin), Katarzyna Budnik (viola), Yuya Okamoto (cello)
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 11 (new entry)
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 12 (new entry)
Simon Callaghan (piano), with Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano), Northern Sinfonia, Martin Yates
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 13 (new entry)
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Andrew Staples (tenor), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 14 (new entry)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Available format: 27 CDs
No. 15 (new entry)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 16 (new entry)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Available formats: SACD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 17 (new entry)
Cappella Amsterdam, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Daniel Reuss
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 18 (new entry)
David Butt Philip (Gerontius), Karen Cargill (Angel), Roland Wood (Priest/Angel of the Agony)
Orchestra of Opera North, Huddersfield Choral Society, Martyn Brabbins
Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 19 (new entry)
Rachmaninoff - Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 3 & The Nutcracker
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 20 (new entry)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 21 (No. 27 in 2025 chart)
Chadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 22 (new entry)
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (countertenor), Café Zimmermann, Pablo Valetti
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 23 (No. 30 in 2025 chart)
Telemann: Violin Concertos
Overture - Suite - Fantasie
Isabelle Faust (violin), Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 24 (new entry)
MacDowell: Orchestral Works Vol. 2
Piano Concerto, Hamlet, Ophelia and other works
Xiayin Wang (piano), Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
No. 25 (No. 10 in 2025 chart)
Brecon Baroque, Rachel Podger
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
