Classical Recommendations
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The Presto Chart - April 2020
4th May 2020
Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson maintains his No. 1 spot from last month with his outstandingly played, imaginatively-programmed album of Debussy and Rameau on Deutsche Grammophon.
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The Presto Chart - March 2020
2nd Apr 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for March, with Víkingur Ólafsson's hypnotic new album of Rameau and Debussy on Deutsche Grammophon out in front by a country mile...
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The Presto Chart - February 2020
3rd Mar 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with John Wilson and Sinfonia of London's collection of French orchestral works on Chandos in first place...
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The Presto Chart - January 2020
3rd Feb 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with Stephen Hough's late Brahms on Hyperion in first place...
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The Presto Chart - 2019
2nd Jan 2020
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Isabelle Faust's Bach concertos (and assorted extras!) with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on Harmonia Mundi leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2019
1st Jan 2020
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang's recital of Franck and Chopin on Erato in first place...
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The Presto Chart - November 2019
2nd Dec 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with La Serenissima's The Godfather in first place...
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The Presto Chart - October 2019
1st Nov 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for October, with Handel's Brockes-Passion from the Academy of Ancient Music in first place...
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The Presto Chart - September 2019
2nd Oct 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for September, with John Wilson and the newly reformed Sinfonia of London's debut album of Korngold on Chandos in first place...
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The Presto Chart - August 2019
2nd Sep 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for August, with Mahan Esfahani's Bach Toccatas on Hyperion in first place...
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The Presto Chart - July 2019
1st Aug 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for July, with Isata Kanneh-Mason's bicentenary celebration of Clara Schumann in first place...
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The Presto Chart - June 2019
2nd Jul 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Lise Davidsen's debut album of Wagner and Strauss on Decca in first place...
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The Presto Chart - May 2019
3rd Jun 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for May, with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla's recording of Weinberg with Kremerata Baltica and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in first place...
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The Presto Chart - April 2019
1st May 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for April, with András Schiff's mesmerising recital of late Schubert on a Brodmann fortepiano in first place…
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The Presto Chart - March 2019
1st Apr 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for March, with Isabelle Faust's Bach violin concertos with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
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The Presto Chart - February 2019
2nd Mar 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for February, with the fourth instalment of Andris Nelsons’s Shostakovich Under Stalin series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in first place...
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The Presto Chart - January 2019
2nd Feb 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for January, with period-instrument Berlioz from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles in first place...
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The Presto Chart - 2018
2nd Jan 2019
Our 50 best-selling titles across all formats for the whole of last year, with Rachel Podger's pared-down but vibrant Four Seasons with Brecon Baroque leading the pack...
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The Presto Chart - December 2018
1st Jan 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for December, with The Choir of King's College Cambridge's celebration of the centenary of their Nine Lessons and Carols service storming ahead in first place...
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The Presto Chart - November 2018
1st Dec 2018
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for November, with Teodor Currentzis and MusicAeterna's Mahler Six in first place...
