At least it did in Mr. Boriskin's gripping, spontaneous yet tautly controlled performance.

They have both given fantastic, gripping performances and we have loved having them.

A good, gripping performance of Mahler's Sixth Symphony would have been enough to fill the evening.

She gives a gripping, honest performance as Catherine, the brilliant, quirky and possibly incipiently mad daughter of a world-renowned mathematician.

"Le Sacre" received the most gripping musical performance.

But it was a gripping performance.

It seemed so in this gripping performance, the first of any Schreker opera in the United States.

Seldom, in fact, has a more gripping operatic performance been preserved than the Met's "Otello" of Feb. 12, 1938.

And Valery Gergiev conducts a gripping performance.

Nelson Landrieu, in a gripping performance, gives us a Don Juan who is fiery and yet somehow sensitive.