What's On / Proms by Day

Jordi Savall makes his Proms debut with a programme that mixes the intimate and the flamboyant.

'We revitalise ourselves in the past,' says Savall, and in this concert with his longtime collaborator Rolf Lislevand he celebrates the Renaisance and Baroque musical worlds of the Iberian peninsula - with a nod to the eccentricities of the English soldier and viol-player Tobias Hume.

The sequence of folias and romanescas has its roots in lively folk dances, and the fantastic style of the music invites a high element of improvisation. Crowning it all is a virtuoso display-piece by Savall's great predecessor, the French Baroque gamba player, Marin Marais.

The second of the season's Elliott Carter premieres, marking the composer's centenary, brings a surprisingly humorous collaboration between conductor and pianist.

Cellist Alban Gerhardt, one of the earliest members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, performs the challenging Symphony-Concerto that Prokofiev wrote for the legendary Rostropovich. The Russian cellist emphasised the work's lyricism - 'I do not know a composer with such beauty in his music' - a quality it shares with Beethoven's idyllic and dramatic 'Pastoral' Symphony.