Brahms Symphony No. 2

Guest conductor Iván López Reynoso returns to the MSO to conduct Brahms’s second symphony, a serene and light-filled work that nevertheless carries a tinge of Brahms’s signature melancholy. Pianist Joyce Yang, also no stranger to the Bradley Symphony Center, brings her “agility, balance and velocity” (Washington Post) to Gershwin’s ambitious and jazzy Concerto in F. Fittingly, this upbeat program begins with the overture to Bernstein’s comedic operetta Candide.