Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by John Shea.
Rebecca Nash (soprano), Louise Winter (mezzo), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor
8.25 Twenty Minutes: The Way of the Mass
Roderick Swanston traces the progress of the musical setting of the mass from a purely liturgical function to an independent life in the concert hall, where composers such as Delius, Janacek and Britten have used the form to make quite new, original and sometimes secular musical statements.
8.45 Dvorak Mass in D, Op 86
(Pinchas Zukerman appears in the Proms Chamber Music concert tomorrow at 1pm)
(Andrew Davis also conducts the Prom on Thursday at 7.30pm)
(This concert is televised on BBC4 at 7.30pm)