By Anna Picard A highly charged performance of some of the most erotic music in the orchestral repertoire is as classy as it is explicit Classical Prom 64 (Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle) Prom 62 (Gustav Mahler/ Davis) Prom 61 (BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Belohlavek) Prom 63 (BBC Singers/Hill) Royal Albert Hall LONDON It was, as my companion put it, classical music's answer to a Barry White album: a programme celebrating carnal desire in all its shuddering, sighing, yearning, yelping, convulsive ecstasy.

By Nicholas Kulish and Daniel J. Wakin Daniel J. Wakin reported from New York. Alan Cowell contributed reporting from Paris and Victor Homola from Berlin.