1.   Buttressed by first-class sound, Nagano draws phenomenally vivid playing from his virtuoso orchestra.

2.   It requires a virtuoso orchestra playing with great precision, and a conductor with a sense of dramatic space.

3.   This is a virtuoso orchestra in a larger-than-life city that is also the media capital of the world.

4.   This is not a great virtuoso orchestra.

5.   This is music written by a conductor of virtuoso orchestras for the conductors and orchestras that would follow him.