A good performance, such as yesterday’s, will help convey how Debussy worked on Faune for an entire year, even though it is only 110 bars and nine-minutes long, and why he later made many changes of dynamics, and why, at its premiere, it had to be repeated.

“Allison Parramore, filling in on short notice as the concert’s principal flute, made lovely work of her turns in the outer movements.”

The last time Benjamin Zander programmed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, he balanced it on the bill with another heavyweight from 20^th-century Russia, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. That was back in November 2012, with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and 17-year-old local phenomenon George Li as soloist. For the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s traditional post-Thanksgiving concert Sunday at Symphony Hall, Zander chose to pair the Rachmaninov with another great Shostakovich symphony, the Tenth.