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The Presto Chart - October 2026

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Presto Chart logoThe Takács Quartet and Timothy Ridout 'assured and poised' accounts of Mozart's String Quintets K515 and 516 on Hyperion swept the board last month, after featuring as our Recording of the Week on 23rd October and receiving a warm reception from Gramophone, where David Threasher described the results as 'finely, subtly judged readings suffused with abundant craft and finesse.'

Other popular titles included Bertrand Chamayou's set of Mendelssohn's complete Songs without Words on Erato, Sir Simon Rattle's live recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 from Munich on BR Klassik, and the twentieth volume of Giovanni Antonini's ever-scintillating Haydn2032 project on Alpha Classics.

No. 1 (new entry)

Takács Quartet, Timothy Ridout (viola)

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

No. 2 (new entry)

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

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

No. 3 (new entry)

Louise Alder (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle

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

No. 4 (new entry)

Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini

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

No. 5 (new entry)

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

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

No. 6 (new entry)

Beth Taylor (mezzo), Hamish Brown (piano)

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

No. 7 (new entry)

Daniil Trifonov (piano), Gonzalo Grau (percussion), São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

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

No. 8 (new entry)

Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Christopher Parkes (horn), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson

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

No. 9 (No. 2 last month)

András Schiff (piano)

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

No. 10 (new entry)

Jess Gillam (saxophone)

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

No. 11 (new entry)

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano), Will Liverman (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

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

No. 12 (new entry)

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Siggi String Quartet, Xun Yang (double bass)

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

No. 13 (new entry)

Cyrille Dubois (Jean de Nivelle), Mélissa Petit (Arlette), Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur (Simone), Tassis Christoyannis (Le Comte de Charolais), Juliette Mey (Diane / Le Page Isolin)

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, György Vashegyi

Available formats: 3 CDs + Book, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 14 (new entry)

Puccini: La rondine

Final 1921 Version

Ermonela Jaho (Magda de Civry), Iván Ayón-Rivas (Ruggero Lastouc), Juan Francisco Gatell (Prunier), Ellie Neate (Lisette), Nicola Alaimo (Rambaldo Fernandez)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Carlo Rizzi

Available formats: 2 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 15 (No. 5 last month)

Emilie Mayer: Symphonic Works, Vol. 1

Piano Concerto - Symphony No. 1 - Overtures

Alexander Melnikov (piano), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck

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

No. 16 (new entry)

Susan Tomes (piano)

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

No. 17 (new entry)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba

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

No. 18 (No. 6 in February)

Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

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

No. 19 (new entry)

Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Anna Lucia Richter (mezzo-soprano), Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Florian Helgath, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi

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

No. 20 (new entry)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu

Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 48 kHz, 24 bit)

No. 21 (new entry)

La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler

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

No. 22 (No. 24 last month)

Ana Vieira Leite (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Andrew Staples (tenor), William Thomas (bass), English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Christophe Rousset

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

No. 23 (new entry)

No. 24 (No. 6 last month)

Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester

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

No. 25 (new entry)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons

Available format: 12 CDs

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