Elgar and Walton kick off the Proms

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This summer opens with a heavyweight programme of William Walton, Edward Elgar and Beethoven.

Elgar's Cello Concerto will be the first of a number of pieces by the British composer to be heard at the Royal Albert Hall, on the 150th anniversary of his birth.

It will be followed by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and preceded by William Walton's overture Portsmouth Point. That work had its premiere in the first season of Proms broadcast by the BBC 80 years ago.

This year, with the Proms celebrating its long partnership with the BBC, several works which enjoyed their first performances at the Albert Hall season have been included in the programme again.

Tomorrow, meanwhile, Richard E Grant and Lord Attenborough present a concert of film music including the Malcom Arnold score for The Bridge On The River Kwai and John Williams's music for Harry Potter. Later in the season Michael Ball will perform.

This year will be the last Proms for controller Nicholas Kenyon, who, after a decade in charge, is leaving to run the Barbican.

He said: "What I feel we've achieved in the last decade is to take one of the great traditions of British life and reinvent it for a new generation. There is a legacy that encourages kids and families to come."

The organisers are hoping to sell about 250,000 tickets for the season of 90 concerts, which concludes on 8 September.

All concerts are broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and many are also broadcast on BBC1 and BBC4.

www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2007