Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - February 2022
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and the Dmitri Ensemble's Ice Land (featuring works by composers including Sigurður Sævarsson, Anna Þorvaldsdóttir, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson and Jón Ásgeirsson tops the best-sellers this week: you can read David's full review of the album here.
The great film-music composer John Williams's debut concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker also proved popular, with both the standard CD edition and Blu-ray version appearing in the Top 10, whilst last month's best-seller from Marc-André Hamelin is still attracting attention at No. 12...In case you missed it, here's our in-depth interview with the Canadian pianist about his love of the keyboard works of CPE Bach, and why (perhaps contrary to popular perception!) he's 'not interested in difficulty for its own sake'.
No. 1 (new entry)
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Graham Ross
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (No. 4 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
No. 5 (new entry)
Bruno Delepelaire (cello), Berliner Philharmoniker, John Williams
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 6 (new entry)
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Available Formats: 6 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (new entry)
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Les Ombres
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 11 (new entry)
Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (No. 1 last month)
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (new entry)
Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (new entry)
Sara Gouzy (soprano), Salome Fischer (alto), Mingjie Lei (tenor), Manuel Walser (baritone), Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
Available Formats: 3 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 15 (No. 7 last month)
Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 16 (No. 2 last month)
Paul Lewis (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17 (new entry)
Peter Holder (organ), Westminster Abbey Choir, James O’Donnell
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (new entry)
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 19 (No. 8 last month)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 20 (No. 9 last month)
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (new entry)
Phantasm
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (new entry)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 23 (new entry)
Julien Behr (Pelléas), Vannina Santoni (Mélisande), Alexandre Duhamel (Golaud), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Geneviève), Jean Teitgen (Arkel)
Les Siècles, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lille, François-Xavier Roth
Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elisabeth Höngen (alto), Hans Hopf (tenor), Otto Edelmann (bass)
Festspielorchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25 (No. 5 last month)
Fretwork, Silas Wollston, David Miller
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
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