This season (upcoming--their 101st), the Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Möst will make their return to Asia in March and April 2019. This tour’s repertoire includes Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5, with soloist Daniil Trifonov; Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony; Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3. This will be the nineteenth international tour under Welser-Möst’s direction, with eleven performances set across seven cities: Taipei, Macao, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Beijing.