Her lucid yet romantic music plays around with folk traditions but always returns to the wisdom of the heart.
Proficient but unimaginative, he shot each subject straight on with his large-format camera, achieving lucid yet unremittingly banal images.
Last spring he excelled in Wagner's "Rheingold," drawing lean, lucid yet full-bodied sound from the orchestra in a performance at once urgent and majestic.
But the choral polyphony was beautifully balanced and clear, while the orchestral textures were lucid yet at times strikingly sensuous: Christie's Bach is anything but austere.
Beethoven's 20th variation, a melancholy Andante, was utterly lucid yet somehow insubstantial; as in the 24th variation, a Fughetta, there was a sense of excessive deliberation, of the music being displayed as much as played.
Chopin's B flat minor Sonata was preceded by three of Debussy's more aqueous Preludes: Ondine, full of sinuous, suggestive lines; Voiles, a study in perfectly defined pastel shades; La cathedrale engloutie, with every layer lucid yet mysterious.
