Hearing performances of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations on harpsichord in New York has been an adventure over the last decade, with more players roundly defeated by the work than even mildly successful.
She heard performances of Brundibár, and those same shattering accounts of Verdi's Requiem conducted by Schächter.
Long ago, I heard performances of the same late-20th century symphonic masterpiece by the American Composers Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.
These days you don't often hear performances of the Haydn concertos, which have somehow acquired a reputation for being charming but small-scaled works.
Gender, etiology of deafness, age at implantation, deafness duration, side of implantation, hearing performances before and after cochlear implantation, and vestibular status before and after cochlear implantation are presented in Table 1.
Haydn set to work on "The Creation" in 1796, having been inspired by hearing performances of Handel's oratorios in London.
A good example of such a situation is found in the Middle East, where singing is never allowed in the mosque, though one may hear performances and even buy records of "readings" from the Qurʾān.
I cannot recall hearing a performance of the "Montagues and Capulets" or "Death of Tybalt" scenes that matched Mr. Dutoit's reading for swagger, let alone deep, pounding basses and percussion, and growling brasses.
Animal and human data will then be presented to show that a two-shank AMI array can potentially improve hearing performance by targeting specific neurons of the inferior colliculus.
And yet, because of the ferocity of concentration on the part of the musician, and because of the range and imagination of what you hear, what you actually get when you hear a performance of his music is something definitive, direct and undeniable – a sheer thrill of musical extremity.
