Devotees will have most of the other works already - Living Toys, America: A Prophecy, These Premises are Alarmed etc - but this is essential Adès, impeccably performed, for those wanting to survey the oeuvre in all its quixotic variety.

Universal Home Video; $29.98; R. THE WIRE - THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON - All 12 episodes from the 2004 season of HBO's intricately plotted, impeccably performed police show, set in a Baltimore housing project torn by drug wars.

The songs - poetic lyrics set to breathtaking melodies -were impeccably performed.

It would never be needed; Hal had performed impeccably.

Peter Shilton, who had performed impeccably, then conceded the decisive goals to a deflected shot from Gallacher and Cross's own-goal.

To this, Horowitz proclaimed that "The musicianship matters and is impeccably performed", which he said "Everything will happen in time, that's the message here."

He described the episode as a "perfectly written, impeccably performed piece, generally enjoyable as a whole".

In temperament, this impeccably performed show, which opened last night at the Public Theater under the direction of George C. Wolfe, is much like its title character, a black maid for a Jewish family in Louisiana in 1963.

A carefully wrought, impeccably performed chamber opera from Tony Kushner ("Angels in America") and Jeanine Tesori ("Thoroughly Modern Millie"), directed by George C. Wolfe.