Haydn Die Schdpfung Nancy Argenta (soprano) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Gwynne Howell (bass) BBC Welsh Chorus and National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox.
Haydn's great choral favourite was inspired by Handel and influenced a whole host of 19th-century composers. Brian Wright introduces a recording, made in St David 's Hall,
Cardiff, earlier this month, and talks to Richard Hickox and John Hugh Thomas about the relationship between conductor and chorus master.
Producers Michael George and Tim Thome