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.