Bargemusic offers close quarters and strikingly clear acoustics; it also provides a mostly gentle liquid quiver that soothes some audience members and discomforts others.
The score alternates lyricism, gentle dissonance, quivering pitch clusters, introspection and raw aggression.
Mr. Shabalala, singing above the basses, has a sweet, hushed tenor that whispers and swoops and quivers, gentle yet fervent.
Mr. Neeson, towering over his co-star, is a gentle, mournful bear with a quivering, sensitive mouth.
The Lambs' pleasure shows all over the menu, but nowhere more than in their playful selection of sakes — from the ladylike Cherry Blossom Water and the Very Gentle Genshu to the Devil's Quivering Tongue, which, it turns out, tastes like ouzo.
The chance arises when Steven Russell (Carrey) goes to jail for fraud and falls, at first gasp, for the Phillip of the title (McGregor), a gentle ginger-blond with an accent quivering somewhere in the mid-Atlantic.
Sweetly restrained, smoothly curling phrases built up to percussive flurries of notes, each one hit with a quivering intensity; Mr. Ayaz's gentle tone grew rougher, more eager, while he played harmonium lines parallel to his vocals or stabbed a finger upward like a preacher.
The first time she read her work to the group, her voice quivered like harp strings, deep but gentle.
While it seems unlikely Jürgen Klopp will find himself reduced to a state of quivering, tear-snorting Kevin Keegan-style meltdown at the force of these gentle little snipes, the timing of it is at least spot-on.
The band are at their most mesmerising when the guitars are deliberately kept soft and Oldham's weird vocals - taut, quivering and chewed out through a piece of gum - resonate clearly, to the gentle tap of his natty orange flip-flops.
A former member of the Irish band Solas, Ms. Casey sets her clear voice in arrangements that mix traditional and modern instruments, maintaining the taut, quivering ornamentation of old ballad style and singing tales of love, war and murder with a gentle gravity.
