The crucial horn parts were beautifully tuned and balanced, and the strings sound with a dry, light refinement.
There were some beautifully tuned cadences to enjoy, but the running three-note figures and sharp syncopations in Mozart's first movement simply disappeared behind a near-impenetrable corporate beauty of sound.
There's an unnecessarily gory ending here, but everything before is subtle and beautifully tuned.
Its strings are beautifully tuned but project a sense of width and relaxation.
The wind playing throughout the afternoon was generally exemplary, pointed and poised, beautifully tuned and exquisitely balanced.
This was beautifully tuned lyrical playing, all muscle and steel.
It's unlikely that medieval music knew anything like this highly integrated, beautifully tuned and very musical singing quartet.
The Rossini overture exploited the extraordinary fineness of which the Philharmonic is capable: paired horns sounding luxurious and beautifully tuned, strings playing with transparent delicacy and life.
The small orchestra played cleanly, with wind ensemble beautifully tuned and balanced.
Instead there was cushioned string tone, beautifully tuned, and with it a kind of vague, indefinite style of attack as if musical ensemble were being witnessed through sheer curtains.