Susan Graham, Ian Bostridge; European Voices; Concert d'Astrée, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm (Virgin Veritas) This spectacular recording has everything: the clarity and zestiness of period instruments, thoughtfully applied vocal ornamentation and a healthy measure of conductorial adventurousness, to say nothing of the superb cast.
The sky was blue and cloudless, and the sun illuminated everything into dazzling clarity.
Everything had uncanny clarity, as if he had acquired extraordinary vision.
"And to the fidelity of transposal I have sacrificed everything: elegance, euphony, clarity, good taste, modern usage, and even grammar".
Haneke films everything with forensic clarity and monochromatic beauty, but it only serves to make his film even more disorientating.
He and the orchestra were subject to Tully Hall's weird new acoustics, which render everything with magnificent clarity but without a trace of natural resonance.
It's interesting to compare Phil Spector's Wall of Sound – a mash of sound – to George Martin's approach, where you could hear everything with total clarity.
The play at that instant, Jordan said, seemed to unfold very slowly, and he saw everything with great clarity, as Jackson had wanted him to: the way the Utah defense was setting up, and what his teammates were doing.
The person who keeps making unwanted advances will only understand blunt clarity; everything else is a potential for negotiation.
Because everything had a great clarity to it.
