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Gasping for air like I just completed a grand allegro combination.

They brought dynamic agility to the opening allegro of No. 8 — Watkins’s cello sneaking up and pouncing into fizzy bursts of violin.

Each ballet spills over with energetic steps, but old as it is, “The Dream,” with more fluidity in its ever-whirling, fleet-footed petite allegro, remains the more modern of the two.

The opening allegro found him moving the orchestra from state to state: here liquid, there solid as stone.

Or at least the “molto allegro” style with which this composer is often associated.