It got the kind of scrambled, coarsened performance that can happen to best of orchestras when the man with the baton lacks technique and style.

And although there was plenty of vigor in the performance, the ensemble was at its best when the playing was soft and lyrical, yet full of the suppressed tension that is one of the hallmarks of Beethoven.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

In a notable event of the tour, the touring side presented the Currie Cup to Griqualand West, the province they thought produced the best performance on the tour.

* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.

Enthusiasts build their systems in order to produce a computer that will out-perform an opponent's computer, thereby " winning " in a contest ; to simply enjoy the best images and effects a new PC game has to offer ; or even simply to obtain the best possible performance at a variety of tasks.

During that same period, the economy grew by 3 % a year, and by 1951 the United Kingdom had " the best economic performance in Europe, while output per person was increasing faster than in the United States.

The 6x86's and MII's old generation " 486 class " floating point unit combined with an integer section that was at best on-par with the newer P6 and K6 chips meant that Cyrix could no longer compete in performance.

The best performance will occur when there is good separation between the signal of a desired user and the signals of other users.

Academically, Eisenhower's best subject by far was English ; otherwise his performance was average, though he thoroughly enjoyed the typical emphasis of engineering on science and mathematics.

Constraining database access operation execution typically means reduced performance ( rates of execution ), and thus concurrency control mechanisms are typically designed to provide the best performance possible under the constraints.

Constraining database access operation execution typically means reduced performance ( rates of execution ), and thus concurrency control mechanisms are typically designed to provide the best performance possible under the constraints.

The best way to read these three-line charts is to identify the EV curve first, then compare it to PV ( for schedule performance ) and AC ( for cost performance ).

Their best performance since was a semi final appearance in 1990.

England have never won the UEFA European Football Championship – their best performance being a semi final appearance at the 1968 and 1996 Championships.

At Euro 96, held in England, Terry Venables led England to their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semifinals.

Although web browsers are arguably the best file viewer, since they support many graphic, multimedia, and document formats, they are likely to always be somewhat lacking in the output quality and feature performance of more specialized software packages.

Hagi led the Romanian team to its best ever international performance at the 1994 World Cup, where the team reached the quarterfinals before Sweden ended their run after winning the penalty shoot-out.

Howard Hawks, for his part, also did his best to boost her performance and her role, and found Bogart easy to direct.

As a result, 2001 year-end inflation was below 20 %, its best result in decades.

Melody Maker ranked the album number 25 on its year-end best albums for 1992.

Brown left and was replaced by David Pajo ( formerly of Slint ) for 1996's Millions Now Living Will Never Die, which showed up on many year-end best of lists, and the 20 minute Djed was described by critic John Bush as proof that " Tortoise made experimental rock do double duty as evocative, beautiful music.

Camp Lisa garnered NAPPA Honors, 2008 Parents ' Choice and NPR's year-end Top 10 list of the best kids music for 2008.

Exceller ( 1973 – 1997 ) is widely considered one of the best horses to race in the United States not to win a year-end championship.

Most racing writers agree that, along with Gallant Man and Lure, he may have been the best horse to race in the United States and not win a year-end championship.

Several Boston alternative weeklies declared Apollo Sunshine the best Boston band in their 2005 year-end issues.

" " Today " topped Eye Weekly magazine's year-end list of best singles, and also appeared at number 32 on NME < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s year-end list of best singles.

Frankel won several Eclipse Awards, the year-end horse racing awards, for best trainer.

The Masters was a year-end showpiece event between the best players on the men's tour, but did not count for any world ranking points.

The ITF, who continued to run the Grand Slam tournaments, created a rival year-end event known as the Grand Slam Cup, which was contested by the 16 players with the best records in Grand Slam competitions that year.

TIME ranked You Were Here in its year-end Top Ten list, calling it the year's best debut album.

In the year-end issues " Men's Needs " was named third-best track of 2007 by NME with the album coming in at No. 9, Track of the Year 2007 by the Metro newspaper and finishing in the 100 best tracks in Rolling Stone magazine in the USA.

" Unfinished Sympathy " ranked highly on 1991 year-end polls for the best singles of the year, reaching the top spots on polls from NME, Melody Maker and The Face, and also features prominently on critics ' and popular polls as one of the best songs of all-time.

Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite her never winning a WTA singles title.

They are best known for their first album Becoming X ( released in 1996 ) and particularly the singles " 6 Underground ", " Spin Spin Sugar ", and " Tesko Suicide " from the same album.

With Hawkins, they recorded a few singles in this period and became well known as the best rock group in the thriving Toronto music scene.

Marjorie Perloff, best known for her poetry criticism and her promotion of avant-garde writers and styles, singles him out for praise.

" Erlewine also wrote that " STP was the best straight-ahead rock singles outfit of their time.

Lauper has released over 40 singles, and as of 2011 had sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and 1 million DVDs and 20 million singles, making her one of the best selling artists of all time.

" Diana " is one of the best selling singles ever by a Canadian recording artist.

They have released seven studio albums and one live album, and are best known for their hit singles " Cumbersome ", " Water's Edge ", " Lucky ", and " Wait ".

They are best known for their hit singles " Fire Water Burn ", " The Bad Touch " and " Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo ".

It is best known for having been an early label of Adam and the Ants, releasing their debut album Dirk Wears White Sox in November 1979 ( which in January 1980 was the first ever Number One on the UK Independent Albums Chart and in February 1981 became a UK Top 20 album ) as well as singles Zerox in June 1979 and Cartrouble in March 1980, the latter being not only a Number One on the UK Independent Singles Chart but also the debut collaboration between Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni following the departure of the original Ants to form Bow Wow Wow.

** PWI ranked him # 14 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the " PWI Years " in 2003

Along with Fairport Convention they are amongst the best known acts of the British folk revival, and were among the most commercially successful, thanks to their hit singles " Gaudete " and " All Around My Hat ".

" and " a key transitional figure bridging R & B and soul ," Burke's " sound was a bold merger of orchestrated sophistication and countryish, down-home grit, and his best singles built a Gothic sense of drama and heartbreak.

The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's " Soul " record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " ( 1967 ) and " Midnight Train to Georgia " ( 1973 ).

Throughout their 20-year tenure Sloan has released 10 LPs ( one being a double ), two EPs, a live album, a " best of " collection and no less than thirty singles.

While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their Top 40 singles " But Anyway ", " Run-Around " and " Hook ".

The album was shortlisted for the 1996 Mercury Prize award for best album, and won the band two BRIT Awards for Best British Band and Best British album, as well as yielding the hit singles " Australia ", " Everything Must Go " and " Kevin Carter ".

The singles from the album charted poorly, though they are still regarded as Suede's best output, especially " The Wild Ones ", which is considered by many to be Suede's finest hour.

It included the track I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass, which reached number 7 in the UK singles chart and for which he is probably best known.

The song rose to Number one in the UK Charts and became one of the biggest hits of the year as well as ending up among the 50 best selling singles of the decade.

In spite of having one of the best reputations among the Liverpool scene, " Everything's Alright " remained their only major hit, with only two other singles charting low in the UK Singles Chart in 1964.

Wings ' 1977 single " Mull of Kintyre "/" Girls School " is still the biggest-selling non-charity single in the United Kingdom ( although Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody " sold more, its sales include a reissue in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust ), and it ranked fourth in the official list of all-time best selling singles in the United Kingdom issued in 2002.

Sar & The Real McCoy, is a German Eurodance group, best known for their early ' 90s singles " Another Night " and " Run Away ", which were both Top 10 hits worldwide.

Years later, it was included in Mojo magazine ’ s list of the best punk rock singles of all time.