. . . "From the very beginning, ???Appearance of Christ in Glory,??? the Philharmonic???s brass section had a precise glow that it sustained over the entire span. (The whole section got whoops from the audience at the end.) As with Bruckner and some other composers, Messiaen???s stark blocks of sound do not reward mistakes, and (not that a concert is one long dash toward perfection) I didn???t hear any." .