Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, a fanfare for the new millennium heralds the 106th season of the Proms. The First Night programme, also on BBC2, features two of this year's anniversary composers, a Romantic concerto, and a blazingly joyous choral work.

Evgeny Kissin (piano), Christine Brewer (soprano), Louise Winter (mezzo), David Kuebler (tenor), Nicolai Putilin (baritone), Simon Preston (organ), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man

Bach, orch Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

8.35 Twenty Minutes: the South: 1: John Berendt
The first in a series of talks in which writers consider the south, the idea of the south, or the south of our imaginations.
The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil describes what the southern states mean to a North American.

8.55 Janacek Glagolitic Mass

(Centre page Proms 2000 supplement)
(Brian Kay on the First Night-Music: page 33)