Record Review Podcast

Our weekly Proms Composer is German composer, organist, pianist, and teacher Max Reger.

This week's Proms Composer is Austrian late Romantic Alexander Zemlinsky.

British composer Emily Howard (born in Liverpool in 1979) is this week's Proms Composer.

Summer Record Review's weekly look at a Proms Composer explores recordings of Thomas Adès

Summer Record Review's Proms Composer explores the recordings of Kurt Schwertsik

Summer Record Review's weekly Proms Composer explores recordings by Wolfgang Rihm

Summer Record Review explores recordings of music by Galina Ustvolskaya

Summer Record Review's Proms Composer slot explores recordings of music by Ustvolskaya

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

Sarah Lenton recommends a recorded version of Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers

Tess Knighton gives a recommendation for Victoria's Masses from among available versions.

William Mival's live traversal of recordings of Mahler's 5th Symphony

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood recommends a recording of Bach's ‘Funeral Ode’

Marina Frolova-Walker recommends a recording of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6, 'Pathétique'

Kenneth Hamilton recommends a recording of Schumann's Fantasie in C, Op. 17

Berta Joncus recommends a recording of Handel's Alcina from among available versions.

Caroline Gill recommends a recording of Haydn's String Quartet Op.77 No.1

Jonathan Swain recommends a recording of Bohuslav Martinu's Symphony No. 6

Iain Burnside compares recordings of Schubert's E flat Piano Trio D.929.

Andrew is joined by Roger Parker live in Stratford-upon-Avon to discuss Verdi's opera.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch surveys music by Hildegard of Bingen & makes a personal recommendation

David Vickers recommends a version of this ever-popular Bach Concerto.

Katy Hamilton recommends a recording from the available versions.

Erica Jeal recommends a recording from the available versions of this great song cycle.

Sarah Walker recommends a recording from the available versions.

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

Daniel Grimley recommends a version from the available recordings of Delius's Sea Drift

Nicholas Kenyon recommends a recording of Mozart's Requiem.

David Nice recommends a recorded version of Shostakovich's 9th Symphony

Simon Heighes recommends recordings which represent the music of Guillaume de Machaut.

Andrew Mellor compares recordings of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.5, the ‘Reformation’. It was written to mark the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession in 1530, a critical event of the Protestant Reformation

Edward Seckerson joins Andrew live to recommend a recording of Jerome Kern's Show Boat.

Julian Johnson recommends a recording of Debussy's Nocturnes.

Anna Picard compares recordings of Mascagni's perennially popular 'Cavalleria Rusticana'

Ivan Hewett surveys recordings of music by Henri Dutilleux, a composer with a unique voice who took inspiration from the tradition of Ravel, Debussy and Roussel, but created a sound world of sensuous harmony and colour that was all his own.

Nicholas Baragwanath recommends a version of Beethoven's 5th Symphony

Oliver Condy recommends a version of Poulenc's Organ Concerto

Stephen Johnson surveys recordings of Nielsen's Symphony No.6, his "Sinfonia semplice"

Gillian Moore recommends a recorded version of Sibelius's 1st Symphony in E minor

Jeremy Summerly compares recordings of Mass No. 6 in E flat, D950, by Schubert - a powerful masterpiece, written during the final year of the composer's life.

Roger Parker recommends a recording of Bellini's opera Norma

Harriet Smith compares recordings of Bartok's Second Piano Concerto, widely recognised as one of the most technically challenging pieces in the repertoire, and makes a personal recommendation.

David Owen Norris recommends a version of Poulenc's Flute Sonata

With Andrew McGregor, an edited version of the regular CD Review slot.

Kate Molleson recommends a version of Berg's Violin Concerto

Building a Library: Richard Wigmore compares recordings of Mozart's Symphony No. 36 in C major, K425, known as the Linz Symphony, which was written in just four days during the Mozarts' stopover in the Austrian town of Linz whilst travelling in late 1783. When the local count heard of their arrival he announced a concert, and the composer had very little time to provide a symphony for it!

Helen Wallace recommends a recorded version of Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata

As part of BBC Music's Ten Pieces Secondary, which aims to open up the world of classical music to children aged 11 and above, Hannah French compares available versions of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat major and makes a personal recommendation. A favourite of the trumpet repertoire and possibly Haydn's most popular concerto, this work was composed in 1796 while the composer was working on The Creation. It was written for his long-time friend Anton Weidinger who had developed a keyed trumpet which could play chromatically, unlike the natural trumpet which had a more limited choice of notes.

Flora Willson recommends a recorded version of Verdi's Requiem

Rob Cowan recommends a recorded version of Beethoven's 4th Symphony.