Donald Runnicles, conductor
Francesco Piemontesi, piano
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, op. 83
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major
The season concludes with Brahms’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 2, a work of sweeping grandeur and lyrical intimacy, brought to life by Francesco Piemontesi and the San Francisco Symphony under Donald Runnicles. Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony follows with radiant calm and pastoral warmth—music of quiet strength and reassurance—offering a noble and deeply satisfying close to the season.