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**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

Latest Episodes:

Mozart's Requiem Feb 29, 2016

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Nicholas Kenyon recommends a recording of Mozart's Requiem.

Shostakovich Symphony No 9 Feb 20, 2016

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

Guillaume de Machaut Feb 13, 2016

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

Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.5 ‘Reformation’ Feb 06, 2016

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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

Jerome Kern: Show Boat Feb 01, 2016

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

Debussy's Nocturnes Jan 25, 2016

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Julian Johnson recommends a recording of Debussy's Nocturnes.

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana Jan 16, 2016

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

Dutilleux survey Jan 09, 2016

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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.

Beethoven: Symphony No 5 Jan 02, 2016

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

Poulenc Organ Concerto Dec 26, 2015

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Oliver Condy recommends a version of Poulenc's Organ Concerto