Synopsis

James Naughtie begins live coverage from London’s Royal Albert Hall. The Proms this year have centered on themes of the countryside and the natural world. Tonight, the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, presents a program unified by a pastoral thread, featuring Sibelius's late tone-poem *The Oceanides*, Sir Michael Tippett’s *The Rose Lake*, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the Pastoral.