Record Review Podcast

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