Those tensions inform London Zoo, but the album takes a step back from the Bug's early sonic extremism to create a more nuanced sound.
Let it never be said that Avery Fisher Hall is unworkable: Heras-Casado is a master blender, and he brought out a full, hearty, grand, yet nuanced sound that shows off the majesty of the city's orchestra.
SOUND CARD Creative's $199.99 sound card (not shown), which requires an empty PCI slot on your computer's motherboard, is designed to render a true and powerfully nuanced sound.
James Dean Bradfield has checked his use of his voice as aural paint-stripper, and the nuanced sound that remains is in tune with the album's mix of influences, including jazz and psychedelia.
Mr. Schonberg of The Times described it as "a warm, rich, highly nuanced sound" that Mr. Borge achieved "through pedal mixtures and by the formation of his own hands -- large, spatulate hands with cushions on each fingertip".
And in "Auf dem Flusse," which likens the rejected lover's heart to a frozen stream, Ms. Schäfer produced a gentle, nuanced sound that seemed scarcely more than a whisper until the final verse, when she gradually increased her power to suggest the passion hidden under the ice.
Although the system now has an audible hypoglycemia alarm, more nuanced sound indicators would be appreciated in addition to "traffic light" warnings.
For the past 300 years, the violins of Antonio Stradivari (1634 1737) and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu (1698 1744) have excelled in molding a many-nuanced sound that seems to better express the intent of composers and musicians.
It could be that the typical established publication has become too impressed with its own self-imposed status as a journal of record, which must confine itself to the facts; and that a complex, nuanced statement sounds not enough like a fact, and hence must be confined to the blogs, where nobody has any manners anyway.
Christopher Burchett, a vocally agile baritone, and Nancy Allen Lundy, a strong soprano, brought a more nuanced operatic sound to their portrayals of the soldier and the peasant.
The nuanced, unified sound that Mr. Jarvi drew from his players suited the Ravel, and you could argue that it supported the more meditative aspects of Bartok's Concerto No. 3 as well.
