Main content

Record Review Podcast Episodes

  1.

    Building a Library: Survey of Ethel Smyth recordings

    Explore the music of an underrated composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement

  2. Building a Library: Survey of Barbara Strozzi

    Dr Hannah French surveys recordings of music of 17th-century Venetian Barbara Strozzi.

  3. Building a Library: Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress

    Anna Picard compares recordings on CD and DVD of Stravinsky's operatic morality tale.

  4. Building a Library: Sofia Gubaidulina

    Gillian Moore surveys recordings of music by Russia's greatest living composer.

  5. Building a Library: Sibelius's Tapiola

    Tapiola is Sibelius's final masterpiece for orchestra. Andrew Mellor recommends a version

  6. Building a Library: Schumann's Liederkreis, Op. 24

    Liederkreis was written in the year he devoted to song composition after marrying Clara.

  7. Building a Library: Schubert's Fantasy in C, D934, for violin and piano.

    Harriet Smith compares recordings of Schubert's piece, which baffled its 1828 audience.

  8. Building a Library: Schoenberg's Gurrelieder

    Nicholas Baragwanath guides us through Schoenberg's epic Romantic cantata, Gurrelieder.

  9. Building a Library: Rossini's The Barber of Seville

    Ben Walton compares recordings of Rossini's hugely popular opera on Beaumarchais's play.

  10. Building a Library: Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez

    Tom McKinney heads to Spain with the ever-popular Rodrigo Guitar Concerto.

  11. Building a Library: Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata

    Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata was overshadowed by the success of his Piano Concerto No. 2.

  12. Building a Library: Rachmaninov Symphony No. 3

    Sarah Devonald recommends a recording of Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 3 in A minor.

  13. Building a Library: Puccini's La fanciulla del West

    Flora Willson pans for gold in available recordings of Puccini's California-based opera

  14. Building a Library: Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto

    Prokofiev was soloist at the concerto's 1921 premiere, which has become his most popular.

  15. Building a Library: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 21

    David Owen Norris sifts through the available recordings of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21

  16. Building a Library: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto

    Mozart's final instrumental work was written for his friend, clarinettist Anton Stadler.

  17. Building a Library: Mozart Symphony No.36 'Linz'

    Building a Library: Richard Wigmore compares recordings of Mozart's Symphony No. 36, K425

  18. Building a Library: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

    Jeremy Summerly joins Andrew for a live review of recordings of Monteverdi's opera.

  19. Building a Library: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time

    Messaien's piece was premiered at a prisoner of war camp, outdoors in the rain, in 1941.

  20. Building a Library: Mateo Flecha's ensaladas

    Tess Knighton compares recordings of 'Ensaladas' of the early 16th century Mateo Flecha

  21. Building a Library: Mahler's Second Symphony

    Bill Mival assesses recordings of the epic 'Resurrection' symphony, live from Spiritland.

  22. Building a Library: Lassus's Lagrime di San Pietro

    Caroline Gill compares recordings of Lassus's depiction of the sorrows of St Peter.

  23. Building a Library: Kodaly's Dances of Galanta

    Kodaly's joyful work is based on the Hungarian dances of Galanta where he lived as a boy.

  24. Building a Library: Ives's Second Symphony

    Edward Seckerson joins Andrew McGregor to assess recordings of Ives Symphony No. 2.

  25. Building a Library: Haydn's Symphony no. 99

    Symphony No.99 is an example of late, great Haydn. Richard Wigmore recommends a recording

  26. Building a Library: Faure's Requiem in D minor, Op. 48

    Richard Morrison compares recordings of Faur茅's Requiem in D minor, Op. 48

  27. Building a Library: Faure's Requiem in D minor, Op. 48

    Richard Morrison compares recordings of Faur茅's Requiem in D minor, Op. 48.

  28. Building a Library: Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch on Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1, live from Southbank Centre

  29. Building a Library: Carmina Burana

    Conductor Jeremy Summerly chooses his favourite recordings of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

  30. Building a Library: Bruckner's Third Symphony

    Dedicated to his hero Wagner, Bruckner revised his Third Symphony several times.

  2. 1
  3. …
  4. 15
  5. 16
  6. 17
  7. 18
  8. 19
  9. …
  10. 22