First of five Sunday night programmes, recorded at this year's Promenade concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Act 2 of Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker. Presented by Richard Baker

In the second of this series of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts recorded at the Royal

BBC2 joins with Radio 3

Bartok Concerto for two pianos, percussion and orchestra

In the third of this series of Henry Wood Promen ade Concerts recorded at the Royal Albert Hall , London

Live from the Proms

The fourth in this series of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London features

Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays Beethoven Symphony No 1. The first of three concerts featuring Sir Georg Solti.

with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra In another concert from the orchestra's home base in Chicago

The last in this series of Henry Wood Promenade concerts

Introduced by Richard Baker

In one of the most adventurous Proms in the 1981 season at the Royal Albert Hall , the three works on the programme were linked thematically by their concern with various forms of ceremony and ritual. Tonight Malcolm Ruthven introduces an edited and adapted recording of that concert. Music for percussion by Harrison Birtwistle