Record Review Podcast

Building a Library: a guide to the best recordings of the greatest classical music. Each week an expert and enthusiast brings along a wide range of recordings of a well-known piece. They explore the music and the different ways of performing it, ending with a recommendation for your library

Haydn's The Seasons
Jun 23, 2025 – 49:01
Mozart's Piano Concerto no.21 K.467
Jun 16, 2025 – 50:01
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
Jun 9, 2025 – 47:04
Beethoven's Piano Trio no.7 'Archduke'
Jun 2, 2025 – 47:23
Stravinsky's Les Noces
May 29, 2025 – 49:43
Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor D.958
May 19, 2025 – 47:54
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
May 12, 2025 – 50:13
Mozart's Coronation Mass
May 6, 2025 – 41:35
Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Apr 28, 2025 – 47:26
Handel's Acis and Galatea
Apr 22, 2025 – 46:00
Brahms's String Sextet no.1
Apr 14, 2025 – 48:37
Shostakovich's 10th Symphony
Apr 7, 2025 – 45:44
Schumann's Carnaval
Mar 31, 2025 – 49:21
Bruckner's Symphony no.4
Mar 24, 2025 – 47:35
Dvořák’s 8th Symphony
Mar 17, 2025 – 42:36
Clara Schumann's lieder
Mar 10, 2025 – 51:45
Liszt'z Totentanz (Dance of Death)
Mar 4, 2025 – 44:43
Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suites
Feb 24, 2025 – 47:56
Puccini's La Bohème
Feb 17, 2025 – 51:08
Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor
Feb 10, 2025 – 45:38
Mozart's Piano Sonata no.15 K.533/494
Feb 3, 2025 – 42:19
Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Op.77
Jan 27, 2025 – 49:22
Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
Jan 22, 2025 – 47:28
Holst's The Planets
Jan 13, 2025 – 48:11
Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto
Jan 6, 2025 – 47:30
Aaron Copland's Rodeo
Jan 2, 2025 – 44:38
Britten's Ceremony of Carols
Dec 23, 2024 – 49:24
Wagner's Siegfried Idyll
Dec 17, 2024 – 43:54
Bach's Concerto for flute, violin & harpsichord in A minor BWV.1044
Dec 9, 2024 – 47:02
Poulenc's Stabat Mater
Dec 2, 2024 – 45:00
Mozart's Symphony no.40 in G minor
Nov 28, 2024 – 46:34
Berlioz's song cycle, Les nuits d'été
Nov 18, 2024 – 51:28
Verdi's Il trovatore
Nov 11, 2024 – 48:12
Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no.2
Nov 4, 2024 – 49:40
Schumann's Piano Trio no.1 in D minor Op.63
Oct 29, 2024 – 48:14
Handel's Theodora
Oct 25, 2024 – 46:45
Franz Schubert's Octet in F major D.803
Oct 22, 2024 – 46:39
Beethoven's Symphony no.4
Oct 14, 2024 – 47:52
Brahms' Symphony no.1
Oct 7, 2024 – 48:16
JS Bach's English Suites
Sep 30, 2024 – 46:08
Richard Strauss's Don Quixote
Sep 23, 2024 – 46:17
Shostakovich's Symphony no.5 in D minor
Jul 15, 2024 – 43:13
Korngold's Violin Concerto
Jul 8, 2024 – 46:21
Chopin's Ballades
Jul 1, 2024 – 47:19
Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra
Jun 15, 2024 – 45:56
Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 in A major
Jun 10, 2024 – 47:51
Elgar's Symphony no.1
Jun 4, 2024 – 45:34
JS Bach's Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830
May 27, 2024 – 51:31
Debussy's Jeux
May 20, 2024 – 46:11
Stravinsky's The Firebird
May 13, 2024 – 46:20