Many facets of the French musical imagination are reflected in tonight's concert at the Royal Albert Hall, from the cool impressionism of Satie to the ebullient neoclassicism of Poulenc.

Honegger's dramatic tableau telling the story of the visionary French saint Joan of Arc comes to the Proms for the first time.

Ian Tracey (organ), Fiona Shaw (St Joan), Eileen Hulse (soprano), Sarah Connolly and Alice Coote (mezzos), John Graham Hall (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Director Deborah Warner
Philharmonic Youth Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Libor Pesek

Satie, orch Debussy: "Deux Gymnopedies"

Poulenc: Organ Concerto

8.00 Honegger's Sacred Side
Richard Langham Smith talks to Honegger scholar Harry Halbreich about the genesis of "Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher".

8.20 Honegger: "Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher"