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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Episodes to download
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Bach St John Passion
Sat 2 Apr 2011
BAL: Bach St John Passion - Simon Heighes recommends a recording
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MOZART Symphony no 25 in g minor
Sat 26 Mar 2011
BaL: Mozart Symphony no 25 in g minor -Chris de Souza recommends a recording of this...
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Mahler Symphony No.10 19-Feb-11
Sat 19 Mar 2011
In this Building a Library on Mahler's 10th Symphony the discussion of a recommended a...
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Liszt Annees Bk.1
Sat 5 Mar 2011
Stephen Plaistow with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of de...
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Ravel Alborada del gracioso 19-Feb-11
Sat 19 Feb 2011
Ravel's Alborada del gracioso: a 7-minute piano solo-turned-spectacular orchestral...
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Brahms Four Serious Songs
Sat 12 Feb 2011
BaL: Brahms Four Serious Songs. Richard Wigmore recommends a recording of the great...
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Berlioz Romeo et Juliette with David Nice
Sat 5 Feb 2011
BAL: Berlioz Romeo et Juliette; a Dramatic Symphony - David Nice recommends a of one...
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Liszt Annees Bk.2
Sat 29 Jan 2011
David Owen Norris with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of de...
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Strauss Alpensinfonie
Sat 22 Jan 2011
William Mival with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Richard...
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Tchaikovsky Piano Trio Op.50 15-Jan-11
Sat 15 Jan 2011
David Fanning compares the available recordings of Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio Op 50, "In...
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Monteverdi Vespers 18-Dec-10
Sat 18 Dec 2010
Simon Heighes compares the available recordings of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 in...
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Beethoven Sonata Op.7
Sat 11 Dec 2010
Iain Burnside with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of fourth...
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Wolf Morike Lieder
Wed 1 Dec 2010
BaL Wolf Morike Lied. Richard Wigmore recommends a recording of Wolf's settings of by...
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Wolf Morike Songbook
Sat 27 Nov 2010
BaL Wolf Morike Songbook. Richard Wigmore recommends recordings of Wolfs's fifty or so...
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Honegger Symphony no.3
Sat 13 Nov 2010
Jonathan Swain with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of no...
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Mahler Ruckert-Lieder
Sat 6 Nov 2010
Hilary Finch with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Mahler's...
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Bach Organ Music
Sat 30 Oct 2010
BaL Bach Organ music - Stephen Farr offers a few tips for assembling a collection of...
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Beethoven Violin Sonatas update of recent recordings
Sat 23 Oct 2010
BAL: Beethoven Violin Sonatas update. Ivan Hewett listens to some recent recordings
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Schumann The Paradise and the Peri
Sat 16 Oct 2010
Bal: Schumann The Paradise and the Peri – Peter Quantrill’s personal of the best...
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Dvorak Slavonic Dances Op.46
Sat 9 Oct 2010
Rob Cowan compares the available recordings of Dvorak's first set of Slavonic Dances (Op.
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Mussorgsky Boris Godunov
Sat 2 Oct 2010
BAL: Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Stephen Walsh recommends a recording of this Pushkin...
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Brahms Quartet in c minor Op 51 no 1
Sat 25 Sep 2010
BAL: Brahms Quartet in c minor Op 51 no 1 - Piers Burton Page recommends a recording
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Sibelius Symphony no.7
Sat 18 Sep 2010
Stephen Johnson with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of...
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Building a Library: Ives's Second Symphony
Mon 27 Feb 2017
Edward Seckerson joins Andrew McGregor to assess recordings of Ives Symphony No. 2.
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Building a Library: Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez
Sat 18 Feb 2017
Tom McKinney heads to Spain with the ever-popular Rodrigo Guitar Concerto.
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Building a Library: Bach's B Minor Mass
Sat 11 Feb 2017
Bach completed this piece by refashioning music he'd composed throughout his career
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Building a Library: Rossini's The Barber of Seville
Sat 4 Feb 2017
Ben Walton compares recordings of Rossini's hugely popular opera on Beaumarchais's play.
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Building a Library: Sibelius's Tapiola
Sat 28 Jan 2017
Tapiola is Sibelius's final masterpiece for orchestra. Andrew Mellor recommends a version
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Building a Library: Beethoven's String Quartet No 12, Op. 127
Sat 21 Jan 2017
Stephen Johnson compares recordings of the first of Beethoven's late string quartets.
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Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony
Sat 14 Jan 2017
Rob Cowan sifts through "Tchaik 4," a piece written at a time of emotional turmoil.