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Latest News: Classical, Presto Chart

  • 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...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - February 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with John Wilson & Sinfonia of London's second volume of English music for strings on Chandos in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - January 2023

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with András Schiff's all-Bach recital Clavichord on ECM in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Klaus Mäkelä's complete Sibelius symphonies with the Oslo Philharmonic leading the pack...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - December 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with Diana Damrau's sparkling 'My Christmas' on Erato in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - November 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih's exploration of a 'golden decade' of cello music in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - October 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for October, with Víkingur Ólafsson's 'fan-letter' to Hungarian composer and pianist György Kurtág on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - September 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with Hollywood Soundstage from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London (released at the beginning of the month on Chandos) in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - August 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Alison Balsom's Quiet City (released last Friday on Warner Classics) in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - July 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Ronald Brautigam's recording of piano concertos by Johann Wilhelm Wilms on BIS in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - June 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Marc-André Hamelin's recording of William Bolcom's complete piano rags on Hyperion in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - May 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Brahms quintets from the Pavel Haas Quartet and guests Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl on Supraphon in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - April 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with Raphaël Pichon's recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion with Pygmalion on Harmonia Mundi in first place...

  • Presto Chart, The Presto Chart - March 2022

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Our 25 most popular titles across all formats for March, with Klaus Mäkelä's Sibelius cycle with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca in first place - and recordings featured in our Humanitarian Fundraiser for Ukraine accounting for almost a third of the best-sellers.