Evelino Pidò failed to assist either singer with his conducting, which was as half-baked as the direction.
There is thoughtfulness as well as brilliance in Antonio Pappano's conducting, which gives us greater emotional resonance than usual in this work without diluting its abrasive comedy.
At the bottom of all this was David Angus's conducting, which produced the most elegant and lively music-making of the weekend.
Also contributing to the evening's success is Teodor Currentzis's conducting, which makes you aware of just how much Shostakovich packed into the score.
A fundamental good-naturedness underlies much of Sir Colin's conducting, which has certainly helped him succeed so well with Berlioz, binding the mosaic tiles of the music with a grouting of amiable good health.
In this approachable, gossipy study, Mauceri, a Leonard Bernstein protégé, explains the "strange and lawless world" of the "invisible" art of conducting, which, like a medieval trade, is passed on from masters to apprentices.
