Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
A welcome return to the Proms for one of Germany's foremost orchestras under its music director Herbert Blomstedt, who is making his Proms debut. They play Mendelssohn's enchanting incidental music, a Haydn cello concerto and Dvorak's final symphony, written in New York, in which the composer evoked the spirit of the folklore of the Americas. Presented by Martin Handley.

Truls Mork (cello), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Herbert Blomstedt

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream, Opp 21 and 61 (incidental music) (excerpts)

Haydn Cello Concerto in C, H Vllb 1

8.25 Twenty Minutes: Performing Art
Christopher Cook is joined at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by Sorrel Hershberg to unfold Blaise Cendrar's and Sonia Delaunay's map/poem/artwork describing a train journey from Russia to Paris in 1913.

8.45 Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)