He focused on crisp phrasing, with sharp percussive attack and less string vibrato than he usually asks for.
Château Saint-Maur, an up-and-coming winery focusing on crisp and clear rosés and white wines, is also one of the host wineries involved in the 18th annual Art et Vin program in France, which brings together artists and independent wineries.
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Toasty and mature, with a dry, savoury undertone and a crisp, focused finish.
"We should have gotten some palm fronds," Ms. Hardwick said, as Mr. Crisp focused on his Pimm's Cup.
In "Renard," there was much to admire in the crisp, focused brass playing and in the way the percussion pointed up the work's burlesque qualities.
But it is in the female style, especially in the second division taught by Francesca Zumbo, where you most sense an irreducibly French style of dance: crisp, focused, fragrant.
Its trumpet soloist, Louis Hanzlik, stood throughout the work, and his crisp, focused playing — particularly in the muted, gently chromatic solo in the Lento movement — made a strong case for equal billing, as did the measured interplay among trumpet, piano and orchestra in the finale.
The latest installment of Marc-André Hamelin's survey in progress, including 11 works, benefits from crisp, focused playing and the kind of linear transparency that gets to the core of Haydn's resourcefulness and originality in, for example, the expansive variations of the Sonata in F minor, misleadingly titled "Un Piccolo Divertimento".
That it's been heralded as a return to crisp, focused basics perhaps tells you less about the album itself than its predecessor, Have One on Me, which filled three CDs and went on for so long that potential listeners were advised to first draft a will in case they died of old age before it finished.
