Bruckner's glorious choral music is performed in the Royal Albert Hall , where the composer played the organ in 1871. Then Sir Georg Solti returns to the Proms for Beethoven's last symphony and its revolutionary choral finale. Solti declares the ninth to be "a masterpiece with an enormous, broadening horizon, where the history of music turned a page".

Bruckner Prelude and Fugue in C minor; Locus Iste; Os Justi; Afferentur Regi; Aequalis No 1; Christus Factus Est; Aequalis No 2; Ave Maria; Ecce Sacerdos

Magnus John Scott (organ), BBC Singers, conductor Jane Glover

7.20 Solti and Chicago
"An orchestra and a conductor is a strange chemistry... Chicago and I worked immediately!"
George Solti, in conversation with James Naughtie, recalls his 22-year partnership with tonight's orchestra, and talks about Beethoven's Choral Symphony.

7.40 Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)

Deborah Voigt (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Johan Botha (tenor), Rene Pape (bass), BBC Singers, London Voices, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti

(Simultaneous Broadcast with BBC2)