We can always hope.
You'll get favorable responses regardless of the quality of the performance. However, the quality of that performance was rather poor for the reasons already mentioned. If you're going to premiere a piece, you should do an exceptional job of it. It's not about being first. You asked for comments, I gave you mine. You're just being defensive because you don't want to face reality.[...]You know, I spent quite some time running through the performance at various tempi, from 5% to over 60% faster. At first, I was trying to get the opening bars correct, which was around 8-15% faster. The problem was that these tempi only worked for the first few bars. Afterward, it just dragged so I increased it enough so that it didn't drag. This was difficult because the original tempo wasn't steady and the articulation was kind of forced so different parts sounded best at different increases in speed. The 40% was the best compromise that ensured that the music came through even though there were some minor parts that could have been slightly slower, such as the opening bars and the final bars as it faded to an end. I tell you all of this as an indirect way to critique the performance.