Specialist Classical Chart for week ending May 19, 2012

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Just two new entries this week: Handel's Esther from the Dunedin Consort and Britten's Song's & Proverbs of William Blake from Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside. Bach Motets form the Monteverdi Choir moves from last week's number five position to take the number one spot.

  1. Bach

    Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner
    SDG SDG716

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  2. Tony Banks

    Charlie Siem; City of Prague PO / Englishby
    Naxos 8572986

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  3. Karl Jenkins

    Crowe; Hanslip; London Symphony Orchestra / Jenkins
    EMI Classics 843782

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  4. Shostakovich

    RLPO; RLPO Choir / Petrenko
    Naxos 8572708

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  5. Britten

    Bostridge; London Symphony Chorus; LSO / Noseda
    LSO Live LSO0719

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  6. Eric Whitacre

    Julian Lloyd Webber; Eric Whitacre Singers; LSO
    Decca 2796323

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  7. Handel

    Dunedin Consort / John Butt
    Linn CKD397

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  8. Beethoven

    Andreas Staier
    HM HMC902091

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  9. Britten

    Padmore; Britten Sinfonia / Jacqueline Shave
    HM HMU807552

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  10. Illumina

    New College Choir, Oxford
    Decca 2758053

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  11. Beethoven - Bagatelles

    Steven Osborne
    Hyperion CDA67879

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  12. This is the Day

    Cambridge Singers / Rutter
    Collegium COLCD136

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  13. Glass

    Bruckner Orchestra Linz / Dennis Russell Davies
    Orange Mountain OMM0081

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  14. Love and Longing

    Magdalena Kožená; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
    DG 4790065

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  15. Paul Mealor

    Tenebrae; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Nigel Short
    Decca 2781149

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  16. Schumann

    Alexander Melnikov; Jerusalem Quartet
    HM HMC902122

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  17. Bartók

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop
    Naxos 8572486

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  18. Pärt

    Theatre of Voices; Ars Nova Copenhagen / Paul Hillier
    HM HMU807553

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  19. Storyteller

    Tine Thing Helseth: RLPO / Eivand Aadland
    EMI Classics 883282

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  20. Britten

    Roderick Williams; Iain Burnside
    Naxos 8572600

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