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Mr. Ozawa drew a splendid performance of "The Queen of Spades" from the Met Orchestra, richly colored yet clear-textured, urgent yet pliant, expressive without being sentimental.
The new season of Sacred Music in a Sacred Space opened on Wednesday with a splendid performance of Handel's oratorio "Saul," with St. Ignatius Loyola's fine professional choir and orchestra conducted by Kent Tritle.
The movie's prime virtue is its panoply of voices, including interviews with the musicians Hank Jones, Billy Taylor, Carmen Lundy, and Geri Allen (who is also filmed giving a splendid performance of Williams's composition "Lonely Moments"); the historians Gary Giddins, Griffin, and Tammy Kernodle, and her friends Johnnie Garry and Gray Weingarten.
It is a splendid performance, full of chancy verbal energy and rich historical witnessing.
For the central thread of that year in New York, a monumental series of concerts by the pianist Andras Schiff, ran out on Saturday evening at Carnegie Hall, with a predictably splendid performance of the "Goldberg" Variations.
It would take something pretty special to keep Dike out of the headlines and such a thing arrived in the form of a splendid performance by Nosa Igiebor, the tricky and powerful 22-year-old Real Betis midfielder.
On Thursday night at the Museum of Fine Arts, the chamber festival offered another brightly, sometimes garishly colored creation, Prokofiev's C major Cello Sonata, in a splendid performance by David Finckel, the cellist of the Emerson String Quartet, and his wife, Wu Han, a pianist.
And come home she did; then, in a splendid performance calculated to épater les bourgeois, she gave us got a view of what went on.
Whatever one's take on these issues, it was a pleasure to hear the Oratorio Society's splendid performance of Mozart's beguiling arrangement under Mr. Tritle, in his seventh season as music director.
Another treasure is Kapell's splendid performance of Bach's Suite in A Minor (BWV 818), scrupulously honest and sensitive, full of character and dancing energy.
