Record Review Podcast

Simon Heighes compares the available versions of Purcell's semi-opera, on CD and DVD, and makes a recommendation.

Robert Philip compares the available recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.100 in G, the "Military".

David Nice compares the available recordings of both Georges Bizet's incidental music to the play L'Arlesienne, and the perenially popular orchestral suites

David Vickers compares the available recordings of Monteverdi's ‘forest of moral and spiritual’ meditations.

Adrian Edwards considers recordings of light music.

Roger Vignoles with a personal recommendation from the available CDs and DVDs of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde

BAL: Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Richard Wigmore recommends a recording of Mahler's song collection.

Harriet Smith with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Beethoven's so-called 'Harp' Quartet

Hilary Finch with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings

Stephen Johnson with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat, D.898

Robert Philip considers the available recordings of Mozart's G major Piano Concerto K453

BAL Special: Victoria 400th anniversary round-up. Simon Heighes surveys a range of recordings of the greatest master of the Spanish Golden Age

Jan Smaczny with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Dvorak's last string quartet

BaL: Rossini Stabat Mater Richard Osborne recommends a recording

Roy Goodman, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, with a personal recommendation from recent available recordings of Beethoven's violin concerto.

BAL: Bach St John Passion - Simon Heighes recommends a recording

BaL: Mozart Symphony no 25 in g minor -Chris de Souza recommends a recording of this dramatic early symphony

In this Building a Library on Mahler's 10th Symphony the discussion of a recommended recording is inseparable from a discussion of which 'performing version' each conductor has chosen to work from. Stephen Johnson discusses the relative merits of ten recordings in conversation with Andrew McGregor.

Stephen Plaistow with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Liszt's Annees de Pelerinage, Book One

Ravel's Alborada del gracioso: a 7-minute piano solo-turned-spectacular orchestral showpiece. If ever a ‘small but perfectly formed’ masterpiece suggests worlds way beyond its scale, then Alborada is it.

BaL: Brahms Four Serious Songs. Richard Wigmore recommends a recording of the composer's great swansong.

BAL: Berlioz Romeo et Juliette; a Dramatic Symphony - David Nice recommends a recording of one of the most daringly original works of the whole nineteenth century

David Owen Norris with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Liszt's Annees de Pelerinage, Book Two (Italy)

William Mival with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Richard Strauss's massive tone poem Alpensinfonie

David Fanning compares the available recordings of Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio Op 50, subtitled "In memory of a great artist" for his close friend and mentor Nikolai Rubinstein.

Simon Heighes compares the available recordings of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 in this anniversary year.

Iain Burnside with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Beethoven's fourth published piano sonata, Op.7

BaL Wolf Morike Lied. Richard Wigmore recommends a recording of Wolf's settings of poems by Eduard Morike

BaL Wolf Morike Songbook. Richard Wigmore recommends recordings of Wolfs's fifty or so Morike settings

Jonathan Swain with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Honegger's Symphony no.3

Hilary Finch with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Mahler's set of Ruckert-Lieder

BaL Bach Organ music - Stephen Farr offers a few tips for assembling a collection of Bach organ music recordings

BAL: Beethoven Violin Sonatas update. Ivan Hewett listens to some recent recordings

Bal: Schumann The Paradise and the Peri – Peter Quantrill’s personal recommendation of the best available version

Rob Cowan compares the available recordings of Dvorak's first set of Slavonic Dances (Op.46) which he orchestrated from his original set of dances for piano duet.

BAL: Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Stephen Walsh recommends a recording of this Pushkin inspired epic

BAL: Brahms Quartet in c minor Op 51 no 1 - Piers Burton Page recommends a recording

Stephen Johnson with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Sibelius' seventh symphony