The opposite was the case for an audiovisual performance of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn), sung with fine colour and nuance by the baritone Dietrich Henschel and played, with equal brilliance of detail and contrast, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Vedernikov (and broadcast live on Radio 3).
During the next 10 years Gambon moved back & forth with equal brilliance from classics to contemporary plays, from tragedy to comedy, and now, at 50, he is recognized as the most protean & prodigious of English actors.
Clarity does not equal brilliance.
It suffered, like Italy, from the difficulty of forming a representative national team that would equal the brilliance of its individual club teams.
Was part of equal justice equal injustice?
Thompson did that again with another coruscating solo that equaled the brilliance of "Sidney Wells". Another showstopper was "Al Bowley's In Heaven". Once mostly an acoustic number, it was the tune that stopped 'em dead every night, the way "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" does now (Thompson is resting that classic for the moment).
In The Family, Laskin writes, "History made and broke my family in the twentieth century" -- and he recounts this making and breaking, be it in the bra factories of New Jersey, the citrus groves of Palestine or the killing pits of Lithuania, with equal ferocity and brilliance.
And yet… At the same time, he has flashes of brilliance that equal these greats at their best.
Suarez was signed from Ajax in January 2011 for £22.7m by former boss Kenny Dalglish and has been involved in moments of controversy and brilliance in equal measure.
Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845) The future prime minister displayed flashes of brilliance that equalled the greatest Victorian novelists.
