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The Presto Chart - July 2026

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Chris O'Reilly
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 Presto chart logoManfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's exhilarating coupling of Dvořák's 'New World' Symphony and Carlos Simon's Four Black American Dances retains its place in the No. 1 spot from June after featuring as Gramophone's August Recording of the Month, where reviewer Andrew Farach-Colton praised the Austrian conductor's 'rare ability to make even the most well-worn works sound engagingly fresh'.

Other popular titles included Mitsuko Uchida's second, live recording of Beethoven's last three piano sonatas on Decca, Sir Stephen Hough's brace of piano postcards on Hyperion, the final instalment of Sergio Azzolini's Vivaldi bassoon concertos series on Naïve, and Karina Canellakis's accounts of Rachmaninoff's The Bells and Symphonic Dances with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra on Pentatone.

No. 1 (No. 1 last month)

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck

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

No. 2 (new entry)

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

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

No. 3 (new entry)

Stephen Hough (piano)

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

No. 4 (new entry)

Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), L'Onda Armonica

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

No. 5 (No. 13 last month)

Kristina Mkhitaryan (soprano), Dmytro Popov (tenor), Alexander Vinogradov (bass), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Karina Canellakis

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

No. 6 (No. 24 last month)

Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco, Gianluca Capuano

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

No. 7 (new entry)

Mahler: Lieder der Jugend

Songs of Youth and Awakening

Katharina Konradi (soprano), Sophie Rennert (mezzo), Mauro Peter (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)

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

No. 8 (new entry)

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann

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

No. 9 (new entry)

Chen Reiss (soprano), Reginald Mobley (countertenor), Andrzej Filończyk (baritone), Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Opera Youth Chorus, Audivi, Jader Bignamini

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

No. 10 (No. 10 last month)

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles

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

No. 11 (new entry)

Berlin! Berlin! Berlin!

Kabarett und Exil

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Salon Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, Adam Benzwi

Available format: SACD

No. 12 (No. 12 last month)

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 13 (new entry)

John Holiday (countertenor), Kevin Miller (piano)

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

No. 14 (No. 7 last month)

Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša

Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 15 (re-entry from 2023)

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck

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

No. 16 (new entry)

Raphael Wallfisch (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods

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

No. 17 (new entry)

Hilary Cronin (soprano), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Florian Störtz (bass-baritone), Augustine Cox (organ), Thomas Simpson (organ), The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Florian Störtz, Steven Grahl

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

No. 18 (No. 9 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. 19 (No. 18 last month)

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck

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

No. 20 (new entry)

Jorge Bolet - The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals

Pasadena, California, 1981 & 1986

Jorge Bolet (piano)

Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 21 (new entry)

Eleonora Buratto (Marina), Freddie De Tommaso (Giorgio), Nicholas Mogg (Daniele), Mihai Damian (Lambro), Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Coro del Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Vincenzo Milletarì

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

No. 22 (new entry)

Saxophobia

Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920s

Chad Smith (saxophone), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson

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

No. 23 (new entry)

Simone Dinnerstein (piano), baroklyn

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

No. 24 (new entry)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker et al, Zubin Mehta

Available format: 57 CDs

No. 25 (No. 5 last month)

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Robert Trevino

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

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