Mark Wigglesworth gives his first Prom as music director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Orchestral excerpts from one of Wagner's most approachable operas are followed by an epoch-making Schoenberg symphony in its full orchestral version. The programme, from the Royal Albert Hall , London, is completed by a great 19th-century concerto written by Brahms - whose music Schoenberg deeply admired. Stephen Hough (piano), BBC NO of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth Wagner Suite: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1 (1922 version)
8.15 The Flesh Made Word
Five writers consider the relationship between religion and language and the problems of putting faith into words. 2: R S Thomas
The retired Anglican priest and Nobel Prize-nominated poet asks how the religious imagination can best express awe, reverence and meaning using the structures and sounds of poetry. He illustrates his talk with quotations, including readings from his own poems.
8.35 Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat