The violinist, who played for the on-deck scenes of James Cameron’s Titanic, will turn 100 on April 5.
Isabelle Faust championed Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto and Dinis Sousa conducted Huang Ruo’s topical Tipping Point.
In its first season without Gustavo Dudamel, the orchestra’s appetite for adventure is undimmed.
Conductor Daniele Rustioni and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott made strong first impressions in music by Brahms and Antonín Dvořák.