And their historically correct uniforms include conductor-style hats, thick white shirts, dark blue pants and a bib on the chest emblazoned with either a Gothic "G" or the word Gothams.
An even clearer comparison of the two conductors' styles came from a video, shown after intermission, of Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1951.
For one thing, its textural opacity and blunted timbres were not characteristic of this conductor's style, although the nimbleness that has often been one of his trademarks was evident at times, most notably in the finale.
"Dutchman" is a great, two-hour-plus crescendo of a piece, which is best performed as one long act, ideal for this conductor's style of pacing: it always takes him a while to settle on just what kind of story he wants to tell.
Here is a conductor's late style with a vengeance.
Nézet-Séguin's opening performance of the current run of Wagner's "Flying Dutchman," on April 25th, was typical of the conductor's usual style.
Some Internet retailers that specialize in classical music, like Ariama, a Web store owned and operated by Sony, have put a premium on refining metadata for their wares, making it blissfully easy to shop for recordings by searching for a composer, a soloist, an orchestra, a conductor, a musical style or a historical period.
Similarly, every conductor employs a singular style, but all want to elicit as great a performance as possible.
A colossal, unified attack at the outset of the Britten established the conductor's hard-driving style, which recalls Georg Solti's at the Chicago Symphony.
People in the musical world said musicians of major orchestras have almost never risen up publicly against a world-renowned conductor over his management style.
And a 16-minute lecture by Bernstein, somewhat perversely tucked in as filler, offers an intelligent introduction, delivered in the conductor's inimitably accessible style.
