Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - May 2022
The Pavel Haas Quartet and special guests Boris Giltburg and Pavel Nikl top our best-sellers for May with their superb accounts of Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 and String Quintet No. 2 in G major Op. 111 on Supraphon. The ensemble's first recording in three years is a sequel of sorts to their Gramophone Award-winning accounts of Dvořák quintets (also with Giltburg and Nikl), and impressed James a few weeks ago with the 'range and variety of timbres' on display as well as the 'raw power and magnificent enormity' which they produce in full cry.
The young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä's set of the Sibelius symphonies with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra maintains its foothold in the Top Five for the third month running, whilst Andris Nelsons's Strauss Alliance from Boston and Leipzig, Cédric Tiberghien's Ravel piano concertos with Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth and Jakub Józef Orliński & Michał Biel's recital of songs from their native Poland also proved popular...
No. 1 (new entry)
Pavel Haas Quartet, Boris Giltburg (piano), Pavel Nikl (viola)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (No. 3 last month)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Available Formats: 7 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor), Michał Biel (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (No. 15 last month)
Maximilian Schmitt (Max), Polina Pasztircsák (Agathe), Kateryna Kasper (Ännchen), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Kaspar), Yannick Debus (Kilian), Matthias Winckhler (Kuno), Christian Immler (Hermit), Max Urlacher (Samiel)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, René Jacobs
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
Steven Osborne (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (new entry)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10 (No. 2 last month)
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 11 (new entry)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (No. 5 last month)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello), Christiane Karg (soprano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (new entry)
Castalian String Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (new entry)
Sarah Brightman (soprano), Alfie Boe (tenor), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Opera Voices, The NHS Voices of Care Choir; Coronation Choir, Massed Trumpeters from the Royal Military School of Music Kneller Hall, Dr. William McKie, Lt-Col Meredith Roberts MB
Available Format: CD
No. 15 (No. 24 last month)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (new entry)
Peter Donohoe (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 17 (No. 1 last month)
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (new entry from 2017)
Boris Giltburg (piano), Pavel Nikl (viola), Pavel Haas Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 19 (No. 9 last month)
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 20 (new entry)
Susan Gritton, Rebecca Evans, Mari Eriksmoen (sopranos), Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox, Sir Andrew Davis
Available Formats: 6 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (No. 17 last month)
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Timothy Ridout (viola), Piatti Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (No. 10 last month)
Lucy Crowe (Angel), Sophie Bevan (Mary Magdalene), Iestyn Davies (Mary Cleophas), Hugo Hymas (John the Evangelist), Ashley Riches (Lucifer)
The English Concert, Harry Bicket
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 23 (new entry)
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Available Format: 17 CDs
No. 24 (new entry)
Nelson Goerner (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25 (new entry)
Dylan Perez (piano), Samantha Clarke, Soraya Mafi, Louise Kemény, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Fleur Barron (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Dominic Sedgewick, Julien Van Mellaerts (baritones), William Thomas (bass)
Navarra String Quartet
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
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