Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
For its first UK appearance, this San Francisco-based period-instrument ensemble contributes to the Proms season's sea theme with Handel's brilliant suite written for a royal barge party on the River Thames. Presented by Penny Gore.

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan

Rameau Suite: Les Paladins
Handel Where'er You Walk (Sernele); Waft Her Angels; His Mighty Arm (Jephtha)

7.45 Twenty Minutes: The Man Who Was Ratty
The eccentric Victorian scholar Frederick Furnivall played a crucial part in launching (and nearly sinking) the Oxford English Dictionary and was immortalised in the pedantic figure of the Water Rat in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. He combined the two true passions of his life by teaching pretty young women to scull on the River Thames. Introduced by Kevin Jackson.

8.05 Rameau Chaconne; Prelude and Air: Lieux Funestes: Recitative and Ariette: Ou Suis-Je?... Hatons-Nous, Courons a la Gloire (Dardanus)

Handel Water Music: Suite No 1 in F

(Repeated on Wednesday 10 August at 2pm)