Sentence examples for heavenly length from inspiring English sources

Schubert's Ninth spans about an hour, which Schumann called a "heavenly length".

This symphony sustains its "heavenly length," to cite a nickname appended to it, through an aura of hypnotic, uninterrupted beauty.

The problem was that, having just conducted a Haydn symphony and a new horn concerto by Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa, he had to get back out there in the grip of an upset stomach and lead a performance of Schubert's hour-long Ninth Symphony, a piece of so-called "heavenly length" whose every minute must have been a battle of intestinal will.

Tavener's turn to a world of spirituality, via the Russian Orthodox church, was the inspiration for much of his music of the late 1970s onwards, and it produced a whole series of works of celestial simplicity and often heavenly length: longest of all his seven-hour dusk-to-dawn vigil, The Veil of the Temple, composed in 2003.

(Even if it's one that took decades to come to public life - it only got its posthumous premiere in 1839, thanks to the efforts of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann, whose review coined the notorious phrase, "heavenly length", a tag that has stuck to this piece and to Schubert's late music in general).

He has a way of making time stand still, or at least making it feel as if his music's "heavenly length" (Schumann's consummate phrase) is in no hurry to reach its destination, just an ideal way to pass a companionable afternoon in Biedermeier Vienna.

Schubert's "heavenly lengths," in Schumann's famous phrase, can be a problem in this symphony.

Schumann, an astute critic, famously referred to the "heavenly lengths" of Schubert's great chamber works and piano sonatas.

Schumann praised the "heavenly lengths" of Schubert's behemoth symphony, comparing it to "a fat novel in four volumes".

Schumann praised the "heavenly lengths" of this behemoth work, comparing it to "a fat novel in four volumes".

You would like to think that an eruptive and bone-rattling performance like this could make anyone see the light when it comes to those longueurs in Bruckner that some of us consider heavenly lengths.