Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - May 2023
Twenty-year-old Spanish violinist María Dueñas's debut on Deutsche Grammophon sailed to the top of the chart last month, after featuring as Recording of the Week at the beginning of May - centring on a live account of the Beethoven concerto (complete with Dueñas's own beautifully-crafted cadenzas), Beethoven and Beyond also features shorter works by a handful of composers who wrote cadenzas for the piece, including Spohr, Ysaÿe and Wieniawski.
María spoke to Katherine last week about falling in love with the violin 'at first sight' as a five-year-old and the Golden Age violinists who've inspired her playing: read the full interview here.
No.1 (new entry)
María Dueñas (violin), Wiener Symphoniker, Manfred Honeck
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Paavo Järvi
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (new entry)
Marina Rebeka (Julia), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Licinius), Tassis Christoyannis (Cinna), Aude Extrémo (La Grande Vestale), David Witczak (Un Consul / Chef des Aruspices), Nicolas Courjal (Le Grand Pontife)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Available Formats: 2 CDs + Book, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
Karim Sulayman (tenor), Sean Shibe (guitar)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo), James Way (tenor), Ross Ramgobin (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, University of Birmingham Voices, Martyn Brabbins
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (new entry)
Rachel Redmond (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Mingjie Lei (tenor), Manuel Walser (bass)
Le Concert Des Nations, La Cappela Nacional de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
Rachel Podger (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 8 (new entry)
Chen Reiss (soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Christoph Eschenbach
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (new entry)
Randall Goosby (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 11 (No. 6 last month)
Alexander Melnikov (harpsichord/fortepiano/tangent piano/piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (No. 25 last month)
Rachel Podger (violin)
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 13 (new entry)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (new entry)
No. 15 (new entry)
James Ehnes (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (new entry)
Chouchane Siranossian (violin), Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 17 (new entry)
Choir of Westminster Abbey, Andrew Nethsingha, Matthew Jorysz (organ), Coronation Orchestra, Sir Antonio Pappano, The State Trumpeters of the Household Calvary, Ascension Gospel Choir, Abimbola Amoako-Gyampah, Roderick Williams (baritone), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (No. 8 last month)
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (new entry)
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
Available Format: 31 CDs
No. 20 (new entry)
Peter Jablonski and Elisabeth Brauß (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (No. 2 last month)
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (new entry)
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord/clavichord), Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 23 (new entry)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25 (No. 13 last month)
Michael Spyres (tenor), Il Pomo d’Oro, Francesco Corti
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
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