Edward Gardner, a dynamic 32-year-old conductor in his first assignment as the company's music director, delivered a nuanced and incisive performance.

Mr. Goehr's work also received an incisive and beautifully colored performance.

As presented in this incisive and shimmering performance, you heard Bartok thinking not "What can I learn?"

This lithe, incisive performance makes the music seem more intriguingly modern, and a bit stranger, than you might have thought it.

In any event, it was good to hear this bracing music, especially in this smart, incisive and elegant performance.

"Connotations" is not often played, but in the incisive performance here, it sounded spiky and fascinating.

Mr. Zimerman certainly lets go in these incisive and breathlessly exciting performances.

Instead of stressing the work's regality, they emphasized its excitement by giving sharp, incisive performances.

James Conlon draws a colorful, sweeping and incisive performance from the Met orchestra.

The rhythmically incisive performance made clear why Balanchine embraced this music as ideal for dance.