Record Review Podcast Podcast
Building a Library: a guide to the best recordings of the greatest classical music. Each week an expert and enthusiast brings along a wide range of recordings of a well-known piece. They explore the music and the different ways of performing it, ending with a recommendation for your library
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Proms Composer - Leifs
Mon 18 Aug 2014
Each week Andrew recommends recordings of music by a Proms composer whose music to be...
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Proms Composer - Alwyn
Mon 11 Aug 2014
Each week Andrew recommends recordings of music by a Proms composer whose music to be...
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Summer Interview - Sir Neville Marriner
Mon 11 Aug 2014
Sir Neville Marriner reflects on half-a-century of recording history with the ensemble...
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Proms Composer - Casella
Mon 4 Aug 2014
Each week during the 大象传媒 Proms Andrew recommends recordings of music by a composer at...
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Summer Review - Baroque recordings on the L' Oiseau-Lyre label
Mon 4 Aug 2014
Caroline Gill joins Andrew live to discuss a 50-CD box set dedicated to founding 鈥�...
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Proms Composer - Beamish
Tue 29 Jul 2014
Each week Andrew recommends recordings of music by a Proms composer whose music to be...
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Summer Session Report - Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra
Sat 26 Jul 2014
A session report from Istanbul. Andrew talks to the conductor and players from The as...
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Proms Composer - Moeran
Sat 19 Jul 2014
Each week during the Proms Andrew recommends recordings of music by a Proms composer...
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Summer Interview - Kristian Bezuidenhout
Sat 19 Jul 2014
Andrew talks to Kristian Bezuidenhout about his cycle of Mozart keyboard works and the...
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Wagner's Siegfried Idyll
Sat 12 Jul 2014
Martin Cotton with a personal recommendation from recordings of Wagner's intimate gift...
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Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice
Sat 5 Jul 2014
Simon Heighes compares recordings of Gluck's great reform opera on both CD and DVD and...
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Ravel La Valse
Sat 28 Jun 2014
William Mival compares recordings of Ravel's La Valse and makes a personal recommendation
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Elgar Cello Concerto
Sat 21 Jun 2014
Helen Wallace with a personal recommendation from recordings of Elgar's autumnal Cello...
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Rameau Pieces de Clavecin
Sat 14 Jun 2014
Nicholas Kenyon compares recordings on both harpsichord and piano of Rameau's volumes...
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Der Rosenkavalier
Sat 7 Jun 2014
Richard Osborne considers the available recordings of Strauss's opera Der and his...
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Schumann's Kreisleriana
Sat 31 May 2014
Kenneth Hamilton considers the available versions of Schumann's Kreisleriana and his...
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Beethoven's 2nd Symphony
Sat 24 May 2014
Rob Cowan joins Andrew McGregor in the studio to make a recommendation from the of 2nd...
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Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death
Sat 17 May 2014
Nicholas Baragwanath makes a recommendation from the available recordings of Songs and...
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Mozart's Marriage of Figaro on DVD
Sat 10 May 2014
Sarah Lenton with a personal recommendation from the many DVD versions of Mozart's the...
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Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto
Sat 3 May 2014
Chris De Souza recommends a version from the available recordings of Tchaikovsky's 1st...
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Haydn Symphony 101
Sat 26 Apr 2014
Misha Donat recommends a version from the available recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.
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Nielsen 2nd Symphony
Sat 19 Apr 2014
David Fanning recommends a version from the available recordings of Nielsen's 2nd...
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Schubert Impromptus D899
Sat 12 Apr 2014
Robert Philip with a personal recommendation from nearly 80 years of recordings of set...
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Vivaldi Stabat mater
Sat 5 Apr 2014
Caroline Gill with a personal recommendation from recordings of Vivaldi's intensely...
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Copland Appalachian Spring
Sat 29 Mar 2014
Mark Lowther compares recordings, and the various versions, of Copland's 'Ballet for a...
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Mozart Coronation mass
Sat 22 Mar 2014
Jeremy Summerly with a recommendation from the available recordings of Mozart's mass...
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Handel 12 Grand Concertos Op.6
Sat 15 Mar 2014
David Vickers compares recordings of Handel's Op. 6 concerti grossi and makes a...
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Bernstein West Side Story
Sat 8 Mar 2014
Edwards Seckerson with a personal recommendation from recordings of West Side Story, a...
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Beethoven 7th Symphony
Sat 1 Mar 2014
John Deathridge with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of 7th...
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Haydn Symphony no 44
Sat 22 Feb 2014
Nicholas Kenyon with a personal recommendation from recordings of Haydn's Symphony no...
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