Sentence examples for monumental variations from inspiring English sources

The program offers the wildly inventive Fantasy in G minor and the monumental Variations on a Theme of Diabelli.

Having announced himself, three years ago, with a recording of Beethoven's last piano sonatas, he has shown even greater ambition in releasing, on the Sony label, a three-disk set of monumental variations: Bach's "Goldberg," Beethoven's "Diabelli," and Frederic Rzewski's dazzling 1975 fantasia on "The People United Will Never Be Defeated," a Chilean anti-authoritarian anthem.

In J.S. Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations the lengthy theme (16 + 16 measures) is followed by 30 variations before a return to a simple reprise of the original air.

Bach's monumental "Goldberg" Variations will be offered in two guises: in the original keyboard version by the pianist Angela Hewitt and in an arrangement performed by the Portland Baroque Orchestra, led by Monica Huggett.

It was decided to balance this revolutionary work with less monumental pieces: lighthearted variations, lieder and an earlier sonata.

The title hints at the work's starting point; the "Golden Mountain" is the Goldberg, and it was from Bach's monumental set of variations that Birtwistle got the idea of linking a series of short, self-contained episodes into a more substantial musical whole.

About 50 composers responded, including Beethoven, whose monumental set of 33 variations was finally completed in 1823 and published separately as Diabelli Variations.

After intermission, he played another late Beethoven work, the "Diabelli" Variations, a monumental score of nearly 60 minutes, in which Beethoven takes Diabelli's dumpy waltz tune and transfigures it into variations that are sly, silly and sublime, sometimes all at once: qualities captured in Mr. Schiff's magnificent performance.

Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.

CROSSOVER sells these days, so no one should be surprised to hear that Bach's monumental keyboard work, the "Goldberg" Variations, has been reimagined as bossa nova, klezmer and tango, among other things.

One of his new American sculptures was "Prometheus Strangling the Vulture" (1943), a variation on a monumental theme he did in plaster for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris.