Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2014

The Boston Symphony Orchestra returns to Japan for the first time since 1999—it will also be the first occasion Japan gets to see the orchestra without Seiji Ozawa at the helm. Instead, Lorin Maazel will conduct the BSO in programs that feature Janine Jansen in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and pianist Behzod Abduraimov in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Signature BSO works by Berlioz, Mozart and Mahler will also be performed in a tour that begins with the orchestra’s first return to China since it visited the country soon after the reestablishment of relations in 1979.

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, May 8 and Suntory Hall, May 9-10.