The monarchy remains as popular as ever. Here is a programme of music for royal occasions, from coronations to weddings. Choirs, orchestras, military bands, organs and fanfare trumpets perform stirring music with plenty of good cheer, in a hearty programme of great British tunes.

IN THE MOOD - Big Band Magic

A Family Christmas - Songs and Music for the Festive Season

The Irish have always known how to write a good tune, and from 'The banks of the Bann' to 'Paddy's green shamrock shore', this album presents a selection of beautiful, atmospheric Irish songs and cheery dances with a truly Celtic flavour. Superb instrumental playing from musicians who include the BBC's Folk Musician of the Year.

Keyboard music by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven played on period instruments Three pianos, two from Vienna and one from London, bring to life the original sounds which these great Classical composers would have known and expected. Mozart is played on a Hofmann from 1790, Haydn on a Broadwood of 1801 and Beethoven on an 1820 Bohm.

The soaring sounds of choral music. Soaring anthems and motets from the golden age of English choral music, by Byrd, Taverner, Gibbons, Tallis and others, composed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to be sung in the glorious acoustics of Britain's greatest cathedrals and churches.

Classical favourites for dining and entertaining. Handel, Vivaldi, Bach and Rameau: baroque orchestral works from some of the greatest composers of the eighteenth century make a perfect background of elegant but unobtrusive music to help create the right atmosphere at any dinner party.

Gentle piano pieces of the Impressionist period including preludes by Debussy, Satie's three 'Gnossiennes' and Ravel's neo-classics 'Sonatine'. Recorded mainly on pianos of the peiod including a large Bechstein grand of 1895.

Beautiful music evoking the lost idyll of Constable's pastoral landscapes. Music byBeethoven and Mozart rpovides the period feel alongside gentle flute and piano pieces by Sterkel and Pleyel.

WHITE TIE AND TAILS - Romantic Hits of the 30s

The spirit of England in favourite songs and music. From 'Greensleeves' to 'Jupiter', this is a celebration in music of England's green and pleasant land by Elgar, Handel and others, for orchestras and military bands.

ROCK N' ROLL HITS OF THE 50s (Rock Around the Clock)

A country church in summer, surrounded by a lovely church yard - an atmosphere for contemplation, and quiet thought. Quiet songs and slow themes create an opportunity for reflection and for time to stand still for just a moment.

Haunting songs of love and life, of lands and seas, of heroes and saints, full of the mystery of our Celtic past. With authentic instruments and the voices of the greatest folk musicians in the British Isles.

DOING A GRAND JOB - Favourite Songs of the 40s