For more than half a century, Askonas Holt has been bringing the Boston Symphony Orchestra to London, and are proud to once again be partnering with the world-renowned orchestra for their first appearance at the BBC Proms in five years.

Conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons, the BSO performs two programmes at this year’s festival. For tonight’s performance, Prokofiev’s Symphony No.5 is preceded by R. Strauss’s tone-poem Death and Transfiguration and Julia Adolphe’s Makeshift Castle. Tomorrow sees soloist Jean‐Yves Thibaudet join the orchestra for Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, presented alongside the European premiere of Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances, as well as Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Ravel’s La valse.

This year’s appearance at the Proms follows decades of collaboration between the Askonas Holt Tours and Projects team and the BSO, including two European tours, performances with Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink at the Proms and the Edinburgh Festival, and concerts with past Music Directors William Steinberg, Seiji Ozawa and James Levine.

Tonight’s performance will be broadcast on BBC Radio Three on 8 September at 2pm GMT.