The 96th season of Promenade Concerts opens with a performance which serves as a memorial and tribute to a distinguished and well loved musician, Sir John Pritchard. His appearance at the 1989 Last Night proved to be his farewell concert in this country.

Youthful talent is a special feature of this new season of highlights from the 1990 Proms. Among those to be seen and heard in coming weeks are the brilliant American violinist Joshua Bell and two notable young British composers Mark-Anthony Turnage and James MacMillan. Tonight's soloist Ju Hee Suh first made her mark here in 1984 as a 16-year-old prize winner in the Leeds Piano Competition. John Tusa meets soloist and conductor Andrew Litton as they prepare for their performance with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Beethoven's Violin Concerto

Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto and Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales

Mark-Anthony Turnage 's Three Screaming Popes and Bartok's Second Violin Concerto.

The Old School Tie.

Witches are no longer burned at the stake, but 'witch-hunting tendencies can erupt in our own society'. So says James MacMillan whose work, inspired by the grisly events of 1662 - when Isobel Gowdie was burned as a witch - has its premiere at the Proms. Mark Wigglesworth, prize-winning conductor and a former student of MacMillan, introduces the programme. It also includes Sibelius's Violin Concerto, played by Korean Dong-Suk Kang with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk.

Libor Pesek conducts the Royal

The German conductor

Live from London's Royal

The live coverage of this popular musical event continues with Rossini's Overture to William Tell and Non piu mesta from La cenerentola; Delius's Song of Summer, Delibes's Sous le dôme épais from Lakme with soloists