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Latest News: Classical, Presto Chart

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - September 2024

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with John Wilson and Sinfonia of London's complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - August 2024

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 from the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - July 2024

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Mishka Rushdie Momen's debut album on Hyperion (featuring keyboard music by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull and Sweelinck) in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - June 2024

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Sibelius and Prokofiev violin concertos from Janine Jansen and Klaus Mäkelä in Oslo in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - May 2024

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for May, with Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque's The Muses Restor'd on Channel Classics in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - April 2024

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Yunchan Lim's Chopin Études on Decca in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - March 2024

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for March, with Beatrice Rana's recording of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata & Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 on Warner Classics in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - February 2024

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with Théotime Langlois de Swarte's 'compelling' album of Vivaldi concertos and transcriptions with Le Consort on Harmonia Mundi in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - January 2024

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with Neeme Järvi and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra's recording of Lalo's Symphony in G minor and suites from the ballet Namouna in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Víkingur Ólafsson's recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations on Deutsche Grammophon leading the pack...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - December 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with John Nelson's live recording of Handel's Messiah from Coventry Cathedral (released on Erato at the end of November) in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - November 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé from Sinfonia of London & John Wilson (released on Chandos at the beginning of the month) in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - October 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with Víkingur Ólafsson's 'serious, sincere and authentic' account of Bach's Goldberg Variations leading by a country mile (and racing to the top of the overall 2023 chart to date...).

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - September 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with an 'impeccably authentic' account of Monteverdi's Vespers from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - August 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Finnish overtures from the Oulu Symphony Orchestra and Rumon Gamba in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - July 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Hilary Hahn's set of the Ysaÿe sonatas for solo violin on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - June 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with British conductor Alpesh Chauhan's debut recording of Tchaikovsky's symphonic fantasias on Chandos in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - May 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for May, with Spanish violinist María Dueñas's Beethoven and Beyond on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - April 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 from John Wilson & Sinfonia of London in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - March 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for March, with Puccini's Turandot from Antonio Pappano (starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann & Ermonela Jaho) in first place...