What's On / Proms by Day

Maverick violinist Nigel Kennedy returns to the Proms - after an absence of 21 years - for Elgar's Violin Concerto, the work that first put him on the musical map following his now-classic recording.

Paul Daniel conducts this programme of British music. The Garden of Fand by Bax mines deep seams of late-Romanticism. And another Kennedy - Andrew (no relation, who appeared at the Proms as recently as last year's Last Night) - brings us Gerald Finzi's touching setting of Wordsworth, a study of the loss of childhood innocence.

'People can say I'm a classical violinist if they want to, but I've always viewed myself as a musician who plays music and not just a certain part of it.'

Tonight's second Prom offers an opportunity to judge Nigel Kennedy's comment for yourself.

For the past few years Kennedy has been living in Poland, exploring the country's rich musical heritage - and he has also been teaming up with some of Poland's finest jazz musicians, the fruits of which you can hear tonight.