Other big hitters included an eerily atmospheric recording of Hans Zender's 'composed interpretation' of Winterreise from Allan Clayton, Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon on Signum, late Brahms from Piotr Anderszewski on Erato, and two Deutsche Grammophon bestsellers from 2025: Alice Sara Ott's set of John Field's complete nocturnes, and the ever-popular Víkingur Ólafsson's Op. 109.
No. 1 (new entry)
Quatuor Ébène, Belcea Quartet
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 2 (new entry)
Allan Clayton (tenor), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Available Formats: 2 CDs, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 3 (No. 1 last month)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 4 (No. 10 last month)
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 5 (new entry)
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 6 (No. 9 last month)
Julie Roset (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo). Lucile Richardot (alto), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), Christian Immler (bass), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 7 (No. 12 last month)
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 8 (new entry)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 9 (new entry)
Eric Lu (piano)
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 10 (No. 8 last month)
Krystian Zimerman (piano), Maria Nowak (violin), Katarzyna Budnik (viola), Yuya Okamoto (cello)
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 11 (new entry)
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Available Formats: 2 CDs, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 12 (new entry)
Simon Callaghan (piano), with Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano), Northern Sinfonia, Martin Yates
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 13 (new entry)
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Andrew Staples (tenor), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 14 (new entry)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Available Format: 27 CDs
No. 15 (new entry)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available Formats: 2 CDs, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 16 (new entry)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Available Formats: SACD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 17 (new entry)
Cappella Amsterdam, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Daniel Reuss
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 18 (new entry)
David Butt Philip (Gerontius), Karen Cargill (Angel), Roland Wood (Priest/Angel of the Agony)
Orchestra of Opera North, Huddersfield Choral Society, Martyn Brabbins
Available Formats: 2 CDs, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 19 (new entry)
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 20 (new entry)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 21 (No. 27 in 2025 chart)
Chadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 22 (new entry)
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (countertenor), Café Zimmermann, Pablo Valetti
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 23 (No. 30 in 2025 chart)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 24 (new entry)
Xiayin Wang (piano), Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
No. 25 (No. 10 in 2025 chart)
Brecon Baroque, Rachel Podger
Available Formats: CD, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
