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The Presto Chart - November 2021
1st Dec 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with the Takács Quartet's superb accounts of works by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn on Hyperion in first place...
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The Presto Chart - October 2021
3rd Nov 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for October, with Canadian-Italian mezzo Emily D'Angelo's debut recording on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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The Presto Chart - September 2021
3rd Oct 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with Víkingur Ólafsson's Mozart & Contemporaries on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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The Presto Chart - August 2021
6th Sep 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with guitarist Sean Shibe's Franco-Spanish recital Camino on Pentatone in first place...
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The Presto Chart - July 2021
2nd Aug 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Krystian Zimerman's complete Beethoven piano concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in first place...
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The Presto Chart - June 2021
3rd Jul 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with András Schiff's Brahms Piano Concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on ECM in first place...
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The Presto Chart - May 2021
2nd Jun 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for May, with Alina Ibragimova's Paganini Caprices on Hyperion in first place...
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The Presto Chart - April 2021
4th May 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with young British guitarist Alexandra Whittingham's debut recording on Delphian in first place (despite not being released until 28th May!)...
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The Presto Chart - March 2021
1st Apr 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for March, with French duets from Steven Osborne and Paul Lewis on Hyperion in first place...
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The Presto Chart - February 2021
4th Mar 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with the fifth instalment of Andris Nelsons's Bruckner cycle from Leipzig on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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The Presto Chart - January 2021
3rd Feb 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with John Wilson and Sinfonia of London's superb new recording of English music for string orchestra on Chandos in first place...
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The Presto Chart - 2020
6th Jan 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Víkingur Ólafsson's spellbinding recital of Rameau and Debussy on Deutsche Grammophon leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2020
4th Jan 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with Mark Simpson's Geysir and Mozart's Gran Partita on Orchid Classics in first place...
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Mark Simpson, Fraser Langton (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel, Emma Fielding (oboe), Amy Harman, Dom Tyler (bassoon), Oliver Pashley, Ausias Garrigos Morant (basset horns), Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest (horn), David Stark (double bass)
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The Presto Chart - November 2020
2nd Dec 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with Daniil Trifonov's celebration of Russia's 'Silver Age' on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...
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The Presto Chart - October 2020
2nd Nov 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for October, with Light for the World from The Poor Clare Sisters Arundel in first place...
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The Presto Chart - September 2020
1st Oct 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra's live recording of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen and Sinfonietta in first place...
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Lucy Crowe (Vixen), Gerald Finley (Forester), Sophia Burgos (Fox), Jan Martiník (Badger/Parson), Peter Hoare (Mosquito/Rooster/Schoolmaster), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Harašta) London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
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The Presto Chart - August 2020
3rd Sep 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Nicola Benedetti's Elgar Violin Concerto with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca in first place...
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The Presto Chart - July 2020
5th Aug 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Paul Lewis's Beethoven Bagatelles on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
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The Presto Chart - June 2020
2nd Jul 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Alina Ibragimova's Shostakovich concertos with Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov' on Hyperion in first place...
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The Presto Chart - May 2020
2nd Jun 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for May, with Grigory Sokolov's Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart on Deutsche Grammophon in first place...