I prefer Bach (and Schoenberg, for that matter) with more articulate rhythm and clarity.
I did get lots of bands I like: the Minutemen, the Birthday Party, and Fugazi, who all make aggressive music that, like Public Image's, is heavy on articulate rhythm and acidic guitar.
In a performance of this work with Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, available on a EuroArts DVD, Ms. Wang takes swift tempos, but Mr. Abbado reins her in just enough so that her playing has a little more grace and articulate rhythm.
His new album, "For Sentimental Reasons" (Kind of Blue), features love songs played with an articulate rhythm section of Renee Rosnes on piano, Dwayne Burno on bass and Al Foster on drums.
To say he is light on his feet would be to deny the staccato impulses of his articulate rhythms.
Hélène Grimaud gave a spirited reading of the piano line, using sharply articulated rhythms to create a tightly focused frame but allowing for considerable suppleness within it.
Time Freezes" (2005) has roots in Minimalism, or at least in that style's use of repeating figures — in this case, quickly broken violin and cello chords and a sparkling treble keyboard figure — as well as clearly articulated rhythms.
Its traversal was an explosion of energy, with consistently brisk tempos (even, comparatively speaking, in the slow movements), sharply articulated rhythms, and textures that combined an appealing period-instrument grittiness with the kind of transparency that brings every strand of Bach's counterpoint into focus.
Though he is often sharply funny and brilliantly articulate, his rhythms lacked crispness, hurtling without breathing.
That means speed, first of all: breakneck lines cleanly articulated over brisk rhythm chords, with the two men switching intuitively between lead and rhythm roles.
