What's On / Proms by Day

A British half and a German half - performed by an orchestra founded by a German but with a distinguished reputation in British music. Now in its 150th-anniversary season the Hallé, under Mark Elder, performs Vaughan Williams's 'little' Eighth Symphony - which this orchestra premiered in 1956.

The poignant rhapsody by VW's friend George Butterworth gains extra resonance in the light of the latter's death in the First World War; it is introduced in tonight's performance with a reading from the Housman poems that inspired it.

Following her stirring performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No.2 at the Proms last year, Janine Jansen joins the Hallé for the popular First Violin Concerto by Bruch (with whom Vaughan Williams studied). And, to close, Richard Strauss's colourful portrait of the scallywag Till Eulenspiegel.