In many performances, "Metamorphosen" seems an indistinct mass of lushly poignant string writing.
In many performances, the cellos stress the errant note, as if to make a deliberate gesture of it.
I loved this in many performances by the Royal Ballet in the 1970s and the Kirov Ballet in the 1980s.
He brought textural clarity to intricate passagework that in many performances can seem like just washes of piano sound.
In many performances, the third movement — a brash, jarring scherzo — can come across like a sarcastic evocation of Viennese dances.
He helped to subsidize the composer's move to Los Angeles the following year and participated in many performances of Partch's music, making a specialty of the Cloud Chamber Bowls.
The superexuberant finale, which in many performances can sound like a bizarre deconstruction of Wagner's stirring overture to "Die Meistersinger," also emerged here with clarity and vigor: an industrial-strength performance from this unabashedly brassy orchestra.
The brass parts were so attractive that they were printed with the work in the complete Bach Edition of the 19th century and are still included in many performances today.
In many performances all the primal shouting, faux-folk tunes, pile-driver rhythms and textural simplicity (60 minutes of music almost devoid of counterpoint) can sound rather silly and sometimes fascistic.
"He's put in many performances like the one he put in today, but the impact is greater in a Clasico.
