Record Review Podcast

Anna Picard recommends a recorded version of Puccini's Il Tabarro

Jeremy Summerly recommends a recorded version of Henry Purcell's My heart is inditing Z.30 in a live edition of Building a Library

These 6 lively concertos were compiled into a set and published by John Walsh in 1734. Richard Wigmore surveys recordings and makes a recommendation.

Natasha Loges recommends a recorded version of Richard Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder

Mahan Esfahani recommends a recorded version of César Franck's Symphony in D minor

Sarah Walker recommends a recorded version of Mozart's Horn Quintet

Alexandra Coghlan recommends the best recording of Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem

Richard Morrison recommends the best recording of Janáček's Sinfonietta.

Simon Heighes recommends the best recording of Telemann's 'Water Music'

Iain Burnside recommends the best recording of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.

Ivan Hewett and Andrew survey recordings of the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Building a Library:Sinfonia da Requiem by Benjamin Britten

Sarah Lenton recommends the best recording of The Mikado by Sir Arthur Sullivan.

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

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

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

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

William Mival assesses recordings of Mahler's epic Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' and makes a recommendation. A journey from the darkness of a funeral march via the terror of the Last Judgement through to the light of redemption and, finally, resurrection is not to be undertaken lightly.Andrew McGregor celebrates Record Store Day 2017 and 60 years of Record Review with a special programme broadcast live from Spiritland, a listening café just north of King's Cross in London.

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

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

Set in the Egypt of the Pharaohs, Verdi's Aida premiered at the Cairo opera house in 1871

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

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

Building a Library on Schoenberg's epic cantata Gurrelieder. Nicholas Baragwanath guides us through this gargantuan late flowering of 19th-century Romanticism in which Schoenberg wove together a sumptuous score that can be surprising to people accustomed to the more astringent sound world of his later works.

Kate Kennedy explores the music of an underrated English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement.

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

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

Sir Nicholas Kenyon sifts through the available recordings of Bach's B minor Mass. It was one of Bach's last compositions, completed in 1749, the year before his death. He refashioned music that he had composed throughout his career. The Mass was never performed in its entirety during Bach's lifetime but is now regarded as a supreme masterpiece.

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

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

Stephen Johnson compares recordings of the first of Beethoven's late string quartets.

Rob Cowan sifts through "Tchaik 4," a piece written at a time of emotional turmoil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood surveys recordings of Lutheran Masses by JS Bach.

Mark Lowther makes a recommendation from the available recordings.

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

Katy Hamilton recommends a recording of Brahms's String Sextet No.1, composed in 1860.

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

Richard Sisson compares recordings of Kander and Ebb's 1966 musical 'Cabaret'

David Nice surveys recordings of Elgar's Falstaff – Symphonic Study in C minor, Op. 68

Simon Heighes recommends a recorded version of Tallis's Spem in alium

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

Mahan Esfahani comes up with a personal recommendation for Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

The final Proms Composer of this season is British composer Jonathan Dove