Proms Composer: Wolfgang Rihm

Summer Record Review's weekly Proms Composer explores recordings by Wolfgang Rihm

• 28 mins

Proms Composer: Kurt Schwertsik

Summer Record Review's Proms Composer explores the recordings of Kurt Schwertsik

• 31 mins

Proms Composer: Thomas Adès

Summer Record Review's weekly look at a Proms Composer explores recordings of Thomas Adès

• 32 mins

Proms Composer: Emily Howard

British composer Emily Howard (born in Liverpool in 1979) is this week's Proms Composer.

• 27 mins

Proms Composer: Alexander Zemlinsky

This week's Proms Composer is Austrian late Romantic Alexander Zemlinsky.

• 28 mins

Proms Composer: Max Reger

Our weekly Proms Composer is German composer, organist, pianist, and teacher Max Reger.

• 29 mins

Building a Library:Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

Mahan Esfahani comes up with a personal recommendation for Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

• 47 mins

Building a Library: Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor

Sara Mohr-Pietsch on Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1, live from Southbank Centre

• 47 mins

Tallis Spem in alium

Simon Heighes recommends a recorded version of Tallis's Spem in alium

• 54 mins

Elgar: Falstaff – Symphonic Study in C minor, Op. 68

David Nice surveys recordings of Elgar's Falstaff – Symphonic Study in C minor, Op. 68

• 47 mins

Cabaret

Richard Sisson compares recordings of Kander and Ebb's 1966 musical 'Cabaret'

• 47 mins

Building a Library: Mateo Flecha's ensaladas

Tess Knighton compares recordings of 'Ensaladas' of the early 16th century Mateo Flecha

• 49 mins

Building a Library: Brahms' String Sextet No 1 in B flat

Katy Hamilton recommends a recording of Brahms's String Sextet No.1, composed in 1860.

• 48 mins

Building a Library: Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress

Anna Picard compares recordings on CD and DVD of Stravinsky's operatic morality tale.

• 52 mins

Building a Library: Vaughan Williams's London Symphony

Mark Lowther makes a recommendation from the available recordings.

• 47 mins

Building a Library: Bach's Lutheran Masses

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood surveys recordings of Lutheran Masses by JS Bach.

• 53 mins

Building a Library: Survey of Barbara Strozzi

Dr Hannah French surveys recordings of music of 17th-century Venetian Barbara Strozzi.

• 51 mins

Building a Library: Haydn's Symphony no. 99

Symphony No.99 is an example of late, great Haydn. Richard Wigmore recommends a recording

• 50 mins

Building a Library: Puccini's La fanciulla del West

Flora Willson pans for gold in available recordings of Puccini's California-based opera

• 49 mins

Building a Library: Lassus's Lagrime di San Pietro

Caroline Gill compares recordings of Lassus's depiction of the sorrows of St Peter.

• 57 mins

Building a Library: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 21

David Owen Norris sifts through the available recordings of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21

• 48 mins

Building a Library: Bruckner's Third Symphony

Dedicated to his hero Wagner, Bruckner revised his Third Symphony several times.

• 46 mins

Building a Library: Schubert's Fantasy in C, D934, for violin and piano.

Harriet Smith compares recordings of Schubert's piece, which baffled its 1828 audience.

• 50 mins

Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony

Rob Cowan sifts through "Tchaik 4," a piece written at a time of emotional turmoil.

• 47 mins

Building a Library: Beethoven's String Quartet No 12, Op. 127

Stephen Johnson compares recordings of the first of Beethoven's late string quartets.

• 53 mins

Building a Library: Sibelius's Tapiola

Tapiola is Sibelius's final masterpiece for orchestra. Andrew Mellor recommends a version

• 44 mins

Building a Library: Rossini's The Barber of Seville

Ben Walton compares recordings of Rossini's hugely popular opera on Beaumarchais's play.

• 51 mins

Building a Library: Bach's B Minor Mass

Bach completed this piece by refashioning music he'd composed throughout his career

• 55 mins

Building a Library: Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez

Tom McKinney heads to Spain with the ever-popular Rodrigo Guitar Concerto.

• 47 mins

Building a Library: Ives's Second Symphony

Edward Seckerson joins Andrew McGregor to assess recordings of Ives Symphony No. 2.

• 58 mins