BBC Proms 2001

Overview

James Naughtie introduces live coverage from London's Royal Albert Hall. This year's Proms have explored the countryside and nature. Tonight the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, perform a programme linked by a pastoral theme that includes Sibelius's late tone-poem The Oceanides, Sir Michael Tippett's The Rose Lake and Beethoven's Symphony No 6 the Pastoral.