The structural rigour but sonic richness of the Sonatas and Interludes are some of the most immediately attractive music of this last century; I'd say the same about Cage's magical, austere String Quartet in Four Parts.
On her albums "The Marble Index" (1969) and "Desertshore" (1970), Mr. Cale's stark, windswept productions and arrangements were usually built around the undulating patterns Nico played on a harmonium; adding austere string arrangements or keyboards, they suspended the songs far away from rock or pop.
Orchestral textures, such as the eerie woodwind motifs of Moth and austere strings of Lamplight, conjure the darkly sexual charge of the film.
Differences were widened rather than narrowed by a closed-door briefing by the army to parliament this month, and this week parliament passed a resolution calling for dialogue with the extremists to be made the priority.IMF support is expected to come with austere strings attached.
The song begins with austere, classical strings while the chord progression emphasizes tonic, submediant and flattened leading-tone chords.
But we enter another world in the second movement, which begins with a muted, austere chorale for strings that becomes a backdrop for the piano's questioning, eerie melodic phrases.
If the chamber music set is less compelling, that's only because Sibelius's imagination seems consistently to have been less fired by the relatively austere medium of the string quartet.
Bergman became awfully dour in the Seventies and made a string of austere films, but his best works -- like this and the delightful Wild Strawberries and Smiles On A Summer Night and his last masterpiece Fanny & Alexander - have a surprising amount of warmth and humor and joy.
The loss cast a pall over the telecommunications industry, which is struggling with an austere financing climate and a string of bankruptcies of debt-ridden startups.
During a ruminative segment, when the strings gently play a poignant melodic line, trading phrases with the organ in its soft-spoken mode, there was an affecting contrast between the throbbing richness of the strings and the austere, reedy steadiness of the organ, played sensitively by the impressive young soloist, James Feddeck.
Payne Bradley's piece is driven by Arvo Pärt's austere and mystical Summa for Strings, whose waves wash to shore two couples: one entwined in a luscious contemporary duet, the other in a formal, purely classical pas de deux.
