The first of thirteen programmes of highlights from the 1996 Proms at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Bruckner's glorious choral music was performed in the hall where the composer played the organ in 1871. Then Solti returned to the Proms for Beethoven's last symphony and its revolutionary choral finale. Solti declared 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 for organ; Locus Iste; Os Justi; Afferentur Regi; Christus Factus Est; Ave Maria; Ecce Sacerdos Magnus - BBC Singers, John Scott (organ), conductor Jane Glover

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