Specialist Classical Chart: week ending May 22 2010

1. Forever Vienna; André Rieu; Decca 5323879; Spotify link

2. Goodall - Pelican in the Wilderness; Enchanted Voices; Tippett Quartet; Classic FM CFMD13; Spotify link not found

3.  Shostakovich - Symphony No 8; Royal Liverpool PO / Vasily Petrenko; Naxos 8572392; Spotify link not found

4.  Verdi - Requiem Mass; Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano; EMI 698936-2; Spotify link

5. Goodall - Enchanted Voices; Enchanted Voices; Classic FM CFMD7; Spotify link

6. Tchaikovsky - Works for piano and orchestra; Stephen Hough, Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä; Hyperion CDA677112; label not @ Spotify (Stephen Hough: other works)

7. Goodall - The Seasons; Vukotic / Tippett Quartet / Szymanowksa / Goodall; EMI 6886262; Spotify link

8.  Schubert - Live, Vol 3; Imogen Cooper; Avie AV2158; Spotify link not found (Imogen Cooper:  other works)

9. Mozart - Symphonies 29, 31, 32, 35 and 36; Scottish CO / Mackerras; Linn CKD350; Spotify link not found (Symphonies 38-41)

10. Dvorák - Symphony No 7; Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer; Channel Classics CCSSA30010; Spotify link not found

11. Shostakovich - The Preludes & Fugues; Alexander Melnikov; Harmonia Mundi HMC902019/20; Spotify link not found (no works by Alexander Melnikov)

12.  Rosso - Italian Baroque Arias; Patricia Petibon; Venice Baroque Orchestra / Marcon; DG 4778763; Spotify link not found (Patricia Petibon: other works)

13.  Vaughan Williams - Sancta Civitas; Bach Choir, Bournemouth SO / David Hill; Naxos 8572424; Spotify link not found

14. Chopin - Late Masterpieces; Stephen Hough; Hyperion CDA67764; label not @ Spotify (Stephen Hough: other works)

15.  Leoncavallo - I Medici; Domingo; Álvarez; Dessi; Lamanda / Veronesi; DG 477 7456; Spotify link

16. Ceremony and Devotion: Music for the Tudors; The Sixteen / Harry Christophers; Coro COR16077; Spotify link

17. Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos 5 and 9; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / Petrenko; Naxos 8.572167; Spotify link not found

18. Beethoven - Piano Sonatas; Steven Osborne; Hyperion CDA67662; label not @ Spotify (no works by Steven Osborne)

19. Shostakovich - Symphony No 11; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / Petrenko; Naxos 8572082; Spotify link not found

20.  Gershwin - By Grofé; Mayorga, Gallodoro, Steven Richman; Harmonia Mundi HMU907492; Spotify link

NB. Let me know if you can find the missing CDs (i.e., “Spotify link not found”).