Can we try a slightly more flowing tempo?" "Yes, I am maybe too slow," Uchida replied.
In Schubert's "Hymn to the Virgin" — the famous "Ave Maria" — Mr. Scholl and Ms. Halperin chose a flowing tempo, never simply wallowing in sound.
And yet there was something about the flowing tempo Blomstedt set for the first movement that almost made one's toes twitch.
Taken at a flowing tempo, the second movement sounded like a song, but didn't take its place as the work's emotional core.
The music was sensitively phrased, lucidly detailed, naturally flowing in tempo, and, at the same time, intense, immediate, and expressively free.
A splitless nano-flow Tempo LC system (Eksigent, Dublin, CA, USA) with sample injection via a PepMap100 trap column (0.3 × 5 mm, 5 μm, 100 Å; Dionex Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) and a 100 μm × 150 mm analytical column packed with 5 μm Luna C18(2) (Phenomenex, Torrance, CA, USA) was used in the second-dimension separation prior to tandem MS (MS/MS) analysis.
Well into his roughly 80-minute set at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday night, he ventured a lullaby called "Puffy" in a free-flowing tempo.
"The Charleston" was his killer: it started with deliberately messy tone rows, his two hands playing at cross-purposes, the left staccato and slow, the right flowing and medium-tempo.
"I'm happy to flow over any tempo," says Green. "Grime is a massive scene in east London and I'm pretty sure we started it.
This music adds the colouristic virtuosity of early 20th-century music – Stravinsky, Scriabin, Ravel – to Knussen's compositional panoply, as a well as a complete understanding of Elliott Carter's simultaneous layers of musical time, in the way the music flows from one tempo to another, the way it stacks up different kinds of metrical pattern against themselves.
Instead of melodic flow and harmonic structure, Pollini emphasized the dramatic ebb and flow of tempo, volume, and density — and this emphasis on gesture brought to mind a special kind of cinematic modernity, in which narrative continuities are both disrupted and intensified by images and editing that emphasize the disjunctive physicality of hands-on filmmaking.
