Richard Bratby

The joy of Radio 3’s Building a Library

Plus: This Classical Life leaves you with a list of discoveries, and a sense of having glimpsed the inside workings of an art

So, you’ve fallen in love with a piece of classical music and you want to buy a recording. The problems begin when you hit Amazon. Any reasonably established classic will have been recorded numerous times: do you go for the performer you’ve already heard of? The crackly vintage recording with the gushing five-star reviews? Or the budget-priced unknown with the vaguely Slavic name; after all, it’s the same music.

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