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They gave an incisive performance of John Adams's Chamber Symphony (1992), itself a ghostly homage to Schoenberg.

A fine ensemble also offered an elegant, tart and incisive performance of Poulenc's Sextet for Piano and Winds.

In the "Greek" trilogy of "Apollo, "Orpheus" and "Agon" it was always the oldest, "Apollo," that looked freshest, especially with Robert Fairchild's incisive performance of the title role.

In the concert's second half, Mr. Masur conducted an exciting, rhythmically incisive performance of Tchaikovsky's wonderful Symphony No. 2, the "Little Russian".

After the presentation of Sphinx's Lifetime Achievement Award to the violinist W. Sanford Allen, who was the first black member of the New York Philharmonic (1962-77), the program ended with Mr. Elliot conducting the orchestra and three violin soloists (Elena Urioste, Maia Cabeza and Ms. White) in a fleet and incisive performance of an Allegro from a Vivaldi concerto.

Mr. Pappano conducts supple and incisive performances of both scenes, eliciting rich sound and colorings from the orchestra.

Led by Case Scaglione, a Philharmonic assistant conductor, the orchestra gave incisive performances of Stravinsky's genial "Ragtime" (similar in breezily spiky feel to its approximate contemporary, "L'Histoire du Soldat") and Shostakovich's "Tahiti Trot," a lush, rather daffy arrangement of "Tea for Two" that was immensely popular in its day.

Despite Balanchine's famed preference for his female dancers, he created some of his greatest choreography for Mr. Villella, who in 1984 founded the Miami City Ballet, now considered one of the most important troupes in the country, largely by virtue of its incisive performances of the Balanchine repertory.

This was a lithe and incisive performance, refreshingly free of soupy Impressionistic textures and amorphous pacing.

The concert choir of the Vienna State Opera Chorus took the stage for Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms" in another incisive performance.

But the best aspect of the production is the incisive performance the conductor David Agler elicits from the chamber orchestra.