Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Christopher Cook presents tonight's programme, starting with Haydn's wake-up call for dozing audiences and ending with Brahms's mighty first piano concerto. George Benjamin 's vibrantly coloured new work has been praised for its "Middle-Eastern flavours and whiff of honky-tonk".
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Robertson Haydn Symphony No 94 in G (Surprise) George Benjamin Dance Figures (first performance)
8.15 Twenty Minutes: Piano War Horses
From the 19th century onwards, the piano concerto seems to grow bigger, bolder and self-important. Writer and pianophile Harriet Smith surveys select stables in search of the Piano War Horse.
8.35 Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
This Prom is repeated on Thursday 27July at 2pm