Sentence examples for ethereal variation from inspiring English sources
During the ethereal variation in G minor Mr. Serkin played as if channeling the music from another realm.
In the ethereal theme-and-variations movement that ends Opus 109, Levit revealed an equal gift for cantabile playing, for spinning out a long, lyrical line.
There were similarities, of course: the gossamer 16th-notes of Variation No. 26, like fluttering angels' wings (more ethereal in recital, even), and the sweet drawn-out legato of No. 19, played like a children's song.
The resulting ethereal phase (As-HAE-Ether) was evaporated to dryness.
The music is a passacaglia, an old dance in variation form, here rendered with lacy lyrical writing and ethereal harmonies by the multiskilled Mr. Adès, who, by the way, drew a textured, glittering and suspenseful account of his opera from the great Met orchestra.
Genteel litterateurs like Joseph Hergesheimer and James Branch Cabell gushed over her; many variations on Griffith's description of her "exquisitely fragile, ethereal beauty" were offered.
From Concrete to Ethereal.
