Presto Chart,
The Presto Chart - March 2024
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana's accounts of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata (a work in which she immersed herself during lockdown) and Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 swept the board last month, after featuring as Recording of the Week on 15th March; the recording was also praised in the March edition of Gramophone for Rana's 'strong personality, her obvious and sincere engagement with these works and her willingness to take risks in pursuit of the music behind the notes'.
Other albums which proved popular included world premiere recordings of Dorothy Howell's Humoresque, The Rock, Divertissements and the ballet Koong Shee from the BBC Concert Orchestra & Rebecca Miller on Signum, Mahler's Symphony No. 6 from the Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Sir Simon Rattle on the orchestra's own label, and Smetana's Má Vlast from the Czech Philharmonic & Semyon Bychkov on Pentatone.
No. 1 (new entry)
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 2 (new entry)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Rebecca Miller
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 3 (new entry)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 4 (new entry)
Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 5 (new entry)
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
Available Formats: 4 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 6 (new entry)
Michael Spyres (baritenor), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 7 (new entry)
I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 8 (No. 11 last month)
Quatuor Ébène, Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 9 (new entry)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 10 (new entry)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Mathieu Pordoy (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 11 (new entry)
Jonas Kaufmann (Parsifal), Ludovic Tézier (Amfortas), Elīna Garanča (Kundry), Georg Zeppenfeld (Gurnemanz), Wolfgang Koch (Klingsor), Stefan Cerny (Titurel), Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan
Available Formats: 4 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 12 (No. 1 last month)
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin/director), Le Consort
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 13 (No. 22 last month)
Louise Alder (Theodora), Tim Mead (Didymus), Anna Stéphany (Irene), Stuart Jackson (Septimius), Adam Plachetka (Valens)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 14 (new entry)
Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 15 (new entry)
Harrison Cole (organ), The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 16 (new entry)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan
Available Format: SACD
No. 17 (new entry)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 18 (new entry)
Véronique Gens (soprano), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hervé Niquet
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 19 (No. 16 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
No. 20 (No. 24 last month)
Bojan Čičić (violin), Steven Devine (harpsichord)
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 21 (new entry)
Lucas Debargue (piano)
Available Formats: 4 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 22 (new entry)
BBC Philharmonic, Albany Symphony Orchestra, George Lloyd
Available Formats: 4 CDs, MP3, FLAC
No. 23 (new entry)
Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Accademia Bizantina, Alessandro Tampieri
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 24 (new entry)
Daniil Trifonov (piano), Sergei Babayan (piano)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
No. 25 (new entry)
Lang Lang (piano), Gina Alice (piano), Gewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC