Fabio Luisi conducted a lithe and transparent performance.
Ms. Mysina gives a boldly physical, emotionally transparent performance, but there is no development of her character.
Mr. Dutoit captured the awe, brutality and voluptuousness of the music in a cinematic yet cool and transparent performance.
Orpheus closed the program with a lively, transparent performance of Brahms's Serenade No. 2 in A.
The other was a luminously transparent performance of Schoenberg's "Verklarte Nacht," brilliantly led by Hilary Hahn, the young violinist, and anchored by Siegfried Palm, a veteran cellist.
The Brahms fared better, perhaps because Mr. Sawallisch tried to bring the intimacy of chamber music to this orchestral staple, coaxing a nuanced and transparent performance from the musicians.
Better still was the ensemble's account of another 20th-century oldie, Schoenberg's Quartet No. 3 (1927), a taut, rhythmically crisp, texturally transparent performance that brought out the latent Romanticism in this early 12-tone score.
But Mr. Matsuev, wielding his athletic virtuosity and steely power, gave a chiseled, hard-driving yet transparent performance, matched in character and cool brilliance by Mr. Gergiev and the orchestra.
Over the last 30 years under Mr. Fischer, the Budapest Festival Orchestra has become one of the most admired ensembles on the international scene, as was demonstrated on Sunday by this supple, glowing and transparent performance of "Figaro".
