The phrase "a stirring performance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a performance that evokes strong emotions or excitement in the audience.
Example: "The actor delivered a stirring performance that left the audience in tears."
Alternatives: "an inspiring performance" or "a moving performance."
The hosts put in a stirring performance to claim their first victory under Nathan Jones.
As I said, Mr. Honeck led a stirring performance of the Beethoven Seventh.
Mr. Gilbert led a stirring performance, not too fast, not too emphatic, very audience-friendly.
A stirring performance at Antone's and two at the conference itself offered exposure.
Lesley Hatfield's extended violin solo was a highlight in a stirring performance.
It was a stirring performance by Hewitt, who seemed motivated by a sheer love of the game.
The Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes gave a reliably stirring performance.
From his first scene, in which he enters an Inquisition-era prison as Miguel de Cervantes, then applies a little fake facial hair and becomes that author's most famous creation, he gives a quietly stirring performance.
Trapped by the posthumous renown of his Longfellow trilogy, Hiawatha, Coleridge-Taylor thoroughly deserves this overdue airing of his lightweight but highly effective violin concerto, his period gift for touching melody and rousing orchestration more than holding its own against an equally stirring performance of the far more familiar Dvorák.
For his encore, he said he was dedicating an intense, stirring performance of the Sarabande movement from Bach's First Solo Cello Suite to Hillary Clinton and to Leonard Cohen.
The Ebola crisis has sparked at least one other charity single, and though it will receive a fraction of the attention it's a far more stirring performance.
