Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - February 2023
No crystal-ball required to predict our best-selling title of February - John Wilson's second album of English music for strings (featuring Howells's Concerto for string orchestra, Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Elgar's Introduction & Allegro and Delius's Late Swallows) had already appeared in last month's chart despite only being released on 3rd February! In case you missed it, you can read James's full review here.
Our second most popular title was a poignant all-Schubert programme from the late Lars Vogt and his great friends the Tetzlaff siblings on Ondine: the majority of the recordings were made in February 2021, shortly before the German pianist was diagnosed with the cancer which took his life last September. In a moving booklet-note, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff notes that 'what again and again was heard from him was this ‘Now we’ve done it, recorded these trios; now I could go too.’'
No. 1 (No. 13 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Lars Vogt (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC
No. 3 (No. 5 last month)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
Beatrice Rana (piano), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (new entry)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
Amandine Beyer (violin), Gli Incogniti
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Raquel Camarinha (soprano), Anne de Fornel (piano), Sarah Nemtanu (violin), Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello)
Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (No. 1 last month)
András Schiff (clavichord)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10 (No. 20 last month)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 11 (new entry)
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Liebreich
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (new entry)
Sandrine Piau (soprano) David Kadouch (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (new entry)
Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri (Ping), Gregory Bonfatti (Pang), Siyabonga Maqungo (Pong)
Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (No. 2 last month)
Timothy Ridout (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 15 (new entry)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (new entry)
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 17 (No. 6 last month)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Fazıl Say (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (new entry)
Frank Dupree (piano), Adrian Brendle (piano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Dominik Beykirch
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (new entry)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 20 (new entry)
Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (new entry)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (No. 3 last month)
Takács Quartet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 23 (No. 18 in December 2022 chart)
Lea Desandre (mezzo), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Thomas Dunford, Jupiter
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25 (new entry)
Mathieu van Bellen (violin), Mathias Halvorsen (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Chris O'Reilly - Chief Executive
