Record Review Podcast

by BBC Radio 3
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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

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Recent Episodes
  • 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
  • Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
    May 7, 2024 – 44:30
  • Monteverdi's Vespers
    Apr 29, 2024 – 45:47
  • Mahler's Kindertotenlieder
    Apr 26, 2024 – 42:29
  • Brahms' 3rd Symphony
    Apr 15, 2024 – 43:11
  • Vaughan Williams's Symphony no.1 'A Sea Symphony'.
    Apr 8, 2024 – 46:14
  • Britten's War Requiem
    Apr 2, 2024 – 48:54
  • Puccini's Madame Butterfly
    Mar 26, 2024 – 45:48
  • Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
    Mar 18, 2024 – 42:31
  • Schubert's Symphony no.9
    Mar 12, 2024 – 48:16
Recent Reviews
  • a220a220
    Can’t play in USA
    I would love to be able to hear these in the USA
  • Jankers too
    Access from North America
    Love this podcast Opens a new window on listening, interpretation and enjoyment. Accessed from US but needed to use a VPN allowing both UK and US …..switching to the UK source for this particular podcast
  • S Woodside
    “Unavailable” - use a VPN
    Great podcast. You need to be in the UK to play this. My VPN makes it work.
  • coyote song
    unavailale
    this sounds good. Any reason it’s always unavailable? I listen to other BC podcasts.
  • golden spell
    Not available in U.S.?
    I would love to listen to this podcast, but virtually all the episodes I’ve tried are “temporarily unavailable”. Will these ever be playable in the States? Thanks.
  • 2008 BMW Individual 760Li
    High quality pods, IF IT WORKS
    It seems that the Franck Violin Sonata podcast is the only one that actually plays for me. All other pods give me an error message.
  • MooSuu Yunn
    VPN needed
    For those that say it’s not downloadable, you need to switch your IP address to the UK. Or try to find BBC radio on SoundCloud.
  • cburton12
    buggy
    Won't download on the computer or the phone.
  • Clsclchrs
    Not Downloadable
    Episodes look tempting, but have tried many times over several weeks, and nothing will download even as new episode are appearing all the time.
  • xxDontWantOnexx
    Not downloadable
    Could not subscribe; could not download episodes; could not find out why. The podcasts only indicated that “authorization was needed.”
  • MusicMom1018
    Don
    Sad, sad, sad !! Either it's available to listen to in this market or it shouldn't appear in the store. No teasing eh !
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