With incisive gestures, Ms. de la Parra elicited a vibrantly nuanced performance whose bristling conclusion had the audience, which included many Spanish speakers and children, on their feet.
Mr. Perlman, who has conducted ensembles like the New York Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and who served as principal guest conductor of the Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005, leads with incisive gestures.
Her incisive gestures elicit vivid performances from musicians who have seen it all, and her passionate musicality reflects the boundless energy that has propelled her improbable journey from a small town in China to the Philharmonic, where, as associate conductor, she is a rising star.
The results can be striking when he hones an entire orchestra into one incisive, pristine gesture, but in this all-French programme with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, he kept the ardent flux of the music too much at arm's length.
Rail-thin and exuding energy, she conducts with kinetic gestures and incisive cues.
Yet elsewhere too, in the whiplash clarity of her gestures, the incisive glance of her eye and the choreographed interplay between her and her partner Jose Serrano, she seems to be driven by the same consuming instinct for rhythm.
George Perle's "Critical Moments," for "Pierrot Lunaire" quintet plus percussion, was played by Tara Helen O'Connor, Alan R. Kay, Rolf Schulte, Andre Emilianoff, Christopher Oldfather and Jeffrey Milarsky with close sensitivity, abundant character and an incisive edge, right up to the final moment, when gestures of irritation suddenly turn into a shrug of humorous indifference.
Every gesture in these works came across as pared-down and essential, at least in these incisive, brilliant and beautiful performances.
Both received incisive performances.
A brilliantly incisive analysis.
