Paul Guinery presents eight programmes in which the BBC Singers explore the glories of 400 years of choral music.
3: / Got Rhythm. A bird's-eye view of the great American choral tradition - from the primitive shape note hymns of 18th-century composers like
William Billings and Supply Belcher through the eccentricities of Charles Ives to the edges of Broadway in the music of Gershwin, Weill and Porter. BBC Singers, David Knotts (piano), conductor Ronald Corp Gershwin Summertime
Copland Old American Songs
Belcher The Jointly All the Harpers Round
Billings While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Ives Psalm 67
Weill Train to Johannesburg Barber Reincarnations
And music by Bernstein, Schuman and Thompson.