Sentence examples for cataclysmic performance from inspiring English sources
This orchestra and its music director, Christoph von Dohnanyi, effectively brought down the curtain (if not the roof) on that Carnegie season with a cataclysmic performance of Varese's "Ameriques" in May, and now they raise the curtain on a new one: again adventurous, with Perspectives series allotted to Mr. Pollini, Mr. Barenboim and Peter Serkin, but perhaps a bit less frenetic.
15 Classical CBSO and Andris Nelsons City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andris Nelsons open the new season with a performance of Mahler's cataclysmic "Resurrection" Symphony No 2 and Strauss's wartime masterpiece Metamorphosen.
The implication is that Abbado achieves a refinement and transparency untypical of Bruckner and worlds away from the cataclysmic ferment of, say, the famous Furtwängler performance with the Berlin Philharmonic recorded in the dark days of Germany, 1942.
You can turn it into drama, a false cataclysmic feeling, or you can use it as a performance enhancement tool. 1. Fear of loss.
Here was a gripping, brilliant yet never flashy performance of a landmark expressionistic work, which ends with cataclysmic terror.
The effect was cataclysmic.
Those decisions proved cataclysmic.
"It was cataclysmic," Nichols says.
"Things are much more cataclysmic".
But other projections are much more cataclysmic.
