Sentence examples for incisive rhythm from inspiring English sources

Levine habitually emphasized the Wagnerian-Mahlerian aspect; Koenigs muted some of the lushness, focussing on incisive rhythm and songful phrasing.

The well-known Seventh Sonata, with its arm-blurring perpetual-motion finale, was played with steely power and incisive rhythm by Larry Weng.

Now 61, Mr. Domingo throws himself into it with his typical energy and charisma and sounds great, singing with vigor, gleaming colors and incisive rhythm.

The violinists Heime Muller and Natalia Prischepenko alternate on first violin; his playing is marked by lustrous tone and incisive rhythm, hers by rhapsodic lyricism.

The brilliant young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, whom I had not heard since 2009 when she took part in Classical Music Day at the White House, was the compelling soloist in a first-rate performance of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1. Again, playing with incisive rhythm and crisp articulation is not this orchestra's strong suit.

She had neither textbook feet (though hers were so eloquent that they left indelible memories) nor perfect turnout of the legs, but she opened herself out glowingly, as if hungering for the most exposed positions and most incisive rhythms.

By 1600, however, fanfares, as compiled by the Saxon trumpeters Magnus Thomsen and Hendrich Lübeck, court musicians for King Christian IV of Denmark, were exhibiting many characteristics commonly associated with the genre in modern times: incisive rhythms, repeated notes, the use of a single triad (chord built of thirds, as c-e-g).

Accompanists are capable of epiphanies, too: Blier's incisive way with rhythm tied together his madly eclectic Spanish program, which he illustrated with charming, edifying patter from the stage.

No problem of tempo, he sung with an incisive sense of rhythm, his vocal placement was very good and he was able to glide effortlessly from a register to another.

The opening was knowing and languorous – the rhythms incisive and a little unflexing, the textures crystal-clear, almost clinical.

Some episodes find Liebman's sound against keyboard tapestries reminiscent of In a Silent Way-era Wayne Shorter, and Fresu is sumptuously incisive over careering rhythms and inventive in overdub duets (his muted horn in dialogue with his open one).