Anticipating the Mendelssohn work in tonight's Prom, the sequence is based around consort music and songs from the Shakespearean stage. It starts with Artist of the Week Itzhak Perlman playing Berlioz's Reverie et Caprice with the Paris Orchestra/Barenboim.
10.07 Purcell Overture: The Tempest: Monteverdi Orchestra/Gardiner
10.12 Shows and Nightly Revels David Melvill O lusty May Thomas Morley O Mistress mine
Anon Tarkton's Jigg Robert Johnson
Full fathom five
Anon Bonny sweet Robin; Hold, lingel hold; The Bee
Johnson Where the bee sucks
Morley It was a lover Anthony Holborne Pavans, Galliards and Almains (1599) attrib Byrd My Lord of Oxenford's Masque
Thomas Lupo Shows and nightly revels; Time that leads the fatal round Anon Kemp's Jigg John Wilbye
Since Robin Hood
Anon Rowland's Godson Morley Now is the month of Maying: New London Consort/Philip Pickett
11.19 Purcell See, see the heavens smile; No stars again (The Tempest)
Monteverdi Choir and Orch/ John Eliot Gardiner