Mr. Nally carefully balanced textures so that the overlapping voices and motifs came through clearly and naturally.
Even in passages of gnashing ferocity, he balanced textures so that inner details came through with startling clarity.
Soothing music, candles and subtle lighting; balanced textures of rough and sleek in white birch, river stones and polished cherry are employed with restraint and taste.
This kitchen has a wonderful knack for balancing texture and seasoning.
Mr. Jimenez balances textures and flavors subtly and brilliantly; his seasonings lead diners through a sequence of tastes that surprise and delight — fiery, fruity, smoky, rich, sweet, sour — in their mutually enhancing combinations.
It was in accompanying soloist Roderick Williams in Mahler's song-cycle, Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen, that Søndergård showed his real credentials, balancing textures and moods with a deft touch.
Mr. Maazel, in contrast, articulated every phrase, taking dramatic pauses to alert listeners to a coming shift of transfixing harmony, balancing textures as if the string section were a choir of voices.
The players have more trouble in balancing textures that they keep so wonderfully clear and muscular in the quartet, and the identity of the music - not quite Brahms in mellow old age, but not the dynamic composer of the quartets either - just escapes them too.
Leading works by Stravinsky and Ravel originally planned by Boulez, the Chicago Tribune's music critic John von Rhein called Lehningher's an auspicious debut, "sharpening rhythms and balancing textures in a lucid manner Boulez certainly would have endorsed," keeping "sophistication to the fore".
