Let one fine point in the playing stand for many: the suspenseful pianissimo timpani roll before the first movement recapitulation, played absolutely evenly by Paul Yancich at the very edge of audibility.
The hyper-expressive Wilhelm Furtwängler and Willem Mengelberg, not surprisingly, are champion fluctuators; Toscanini, true to his strict reputation, is much more consistent, although he is interestingly unpredictable when it comes to the first-movement recapitulation.
There are episodes of fearsome beauty, as in the fortissimo reprise of the motto theme in the first-movement recapitulation, where canonic gestures in the brass lead to gnashing dissonances.
But Mr. Abbado did underline one connection, making much of Haydn's little interruptions for solo turns, precursors all to the oboe cadenza Beethoven inserted out of the blue into the first-movement recapitulation of the Fifth.
In the recapitulation, the first theme strongly influences the love theme and ultimately destroys it.
That is, the first format in the recapitulation was the format used in Card 1, whereas the second and third were determined by the severity sequence in Card 1. Furthermore, the participants were asked which one of the five EU descriptors ("very rare",..., "very common") best described the frequency of 1 out of 40, 1 out of 4,000, 1 out of 5, 1 out of 200 and 1 out of 20,000.
The Mahler Ninth felt like a recapitulation of Barenboim's Chicago career.
However, by the end of the nineteenth century, Haeckel's recapitulation theory came under strong criticism (Gould 1977; Mayr 1982; Richardson et al 1997).
In addition the HTA assessment is very detailed and allows a recapitulation by third parties, which is not always possible in other countries.
Here, as in many of Schubert's sonata form movements, a repeat sign is written for an exceedingly long exposition, while the material of the exposition is repeated a third time in the recapitulation with little alteration.
Our expectation for this second day was a recapitulation of numerous previous studies: long-term stability and accurate field rotation.
