Presented by Martin Handley.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor, David Robertson, opens this concert with the first performance of a work by British composer Sam Hayden, the first of ten BBC commissions this season. The massive and complex musical forces of Ives's Fourth Symphony (Proms First in 1966) are preceded by Bernstein's Auden-inspired symphony.

Orli Shaham (piano), London Philharmonic Choir, BBC SO, conductor David Robertson

Sam Hayden Substratum (BBC Commission, first performance)

Bernstein Symphony No 2 (The Age of Anxiety)

8.00 Twenty Minutes: The Bargain
By Truman Capote. An old acquaintance is due to arrive for lunch and affluent New Yorker Mrs Chase is entertaining the possibility of purchasing from her a mink coat, for her forthcoming trip to Paris. Read by Lorelei King.

8.20 Ives Symphony No 4 Ralph van Raat (piano)

(Rptd Friday 2pm; Delayed broadcast on BBC4 at 7.30pm)