“Patience slowly giving way to explosiveness” is Marin Alsop’s “stylistic thumbprint,”  according to a glowing New York Times review yesterday of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s performance of  Beethoven’s “Eroica,” which Alsop conducted at Carnegie Hall this weekend.

The BSO is sounding “terrific these days” and the organization has “mellowed,” in the words of Times critic Alan Kozinn , who has praise for the management side of the organization as well as Alsop’s “fascinating alternative view” of “Eroica.”

“Management has addressed budget problems by paring down the administrative roster, and last year the players offered to forgo about $1 million in wage and pension increases. The ensemble’s home, the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, has just had a $5 million makeover, and the budget is expected to be balanced this season.”