Sentence examples for a period performance from inspiring English sources

But for all its historical importance, it seems rather old-fashioned now, and at times the experience was like watching the theatrical equivalent of a period performance, as if achieving the same results using today's technology would lose something essential.

The 1950s auditorium of Bristol's Colston Hall is not the obvious venue for a period performance of Mozart's last three symphonies, but audience expectation was high for the English Baroque Soloists' concert.

It took a few minutes for those qualities to become apparent, exactly as long as Vivaldi's Sonata No. 2 in A, the opening work in which Ms. Kamio seemed interpretively adrift, playing with neither a period performance aesthetic nor a modern Heifetzian flair.

April 11 2012 When this group started out in 1985, the very concept of a period-performance string quartet was hard to fathom; now, young French quartets such as the Ebène and Diotima follow, in their own manner, the trail the Mosaïques have blazed.

Instructed to moisten her lips so as to catch the light, she doesn't do anything so lubriciously modern as to show her tongue, but gently sucks each lip in like a lozenge — a dazzling detail in what is, by any standards, an immaculate period performance.

Yet there is also acerbity from Barbara Flynn as a bereaved mother, head cocked like a bird of prey, holding her grief down under a parade of prejudice, a well-worn crustiness from Simon Williams and an extraordinary relaxed period performance from Helen Bradbury.

He teams up with Levin, an American pianist who is an authority on period performance, to essay all of Beethoven's music for their combination, including the six sonatas, over two programs.

Manze is a violinist who specialises in period performance, and he seemed to want this bulky symphony orchestra to play like an uber-agile period-instrument ensemble.

Now period performance is a growth industry, and the first music heard in the revamped hall on Sunday afternoon was a set of Sephardic pieces performed by Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI, one of the most renowned period-instrument groups.

The artistic director will be Monica Huggett, an English violinist steeped in period performance.

But castratos and countertenors are not the same thing, so it can't be claimed we were given a "period instrument" performance, as it were.