1.   Botstein conducts a large-scale, often gripping reading that generally ignores all the authentic performance practice rhetoric and is probably the better for it.

2.   It came across as an authentic performance.

3.   It seems peculiar to discuss authentic performance practice in connection with a composer who has been dead less than a century.

4.   Rank-and-file musicians rightly scorn the notion of an authentic performance.

5.   As an emotionally maimed playwright coming to terms with her nutty mother, Sandra Bullock stands out with the one consistently authentic performance among an ensemble of exceptional actresses.

6.   Some offer a more authentic performance than others.