Live from the Albert Hall ,
In the second live visit to the Proms, the Philharmonia Orchestra performs Elgar'sÃEnigma Variations. Before the performance, conductor Leonard Slatkin, an American with a great enthusiasm for English music, gives a personal view of one of the composer's most enduring works.
Tonight's concert, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first Prom, begins with Wagner's Overture Rienzi. Leoncavallo's Prologue to Pagliacci and Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No 1 follow. Thomas's Overture Mignon continues after the interval, followed by Schubert's Symphony No 8 in B minor Unfinished, Rossini's Largo al factotum and Bizet's Carmen Suite No 1. Barry Wordsworth conducts the New Queen's Hall Orchestra and the soloists are Donald Maxwell (baritone) and Howard Shelley (piano).
Introduced by James Naughtie from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a concert which opens with Mendelssohn's Overture A Midsummer Night's Dream, and concludes with Beethoven's Third Symphony, Eroica.
A live concert in which British jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph leads an All-Star Big Band through a selection of jazz standards and his own compositions. His band includes Peter King, Andy Sheppard, Tony Remy, Guy Barker and his regular drummer, Mark Mondesir.
The BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Barry Wordsworth, performs Leonard Bernstein's Candide Overture and the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.
Esa-Pekka Salonen brings his gifts as a conductor of 20th century music to this live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, which includes a world premiere in the first half. Latvian-born Gidon Kremer is the soloist in Graal Theatre, a new violin concerto composed for him by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk, opens tonight's concert by performing Tchaikovsky's Overture to Romeo and Juliet. This piece was recorded on 8 August but, due to a power failure, the scheduled British premiere of Tan Dun's Orchestral Theatre II: Re did not take place, Instead, the second half of the concert will be a repeat of the recording of Scottish composer James MacMillan's work, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, again performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Richard Baker describes the scene at the Royal Albert Hall where the Centenary Season ends with members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus and the BBC Singers all on stage under the baton of Andrew Davis. Two fine British stars, the mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers and violinist Tasmin Little make their Last Night debuts.
The second half of the concert starts with the Fanfare
Music from the first ever "African Prom", staged at London's Royal Albert Hall.