Sentence examples for orchestra alone from inspiring English sources

Among his few works written for the orchestra alone is Masques et bergamasques (1919).

At the heart of the symphony, structurally and emotionally, is the adagio, the wordless love scene, conceived for orchestra alone.

The second movement ("Funeral March: A State of Mourning") culminates in a large fugal outburst from the orchestra alone in representation of mass mourning, a shared history of suffering, as opposed to the individual mourning of the soloists.

Competing with massed percussion, the piano becomes the lava pouring forth from the series of orchestral eruptions which constitute Antiphonies, while Earth Dances (1985-6) has the orchestra alone, spiralling through cyclical strata of sound as if fishing to register on some musical Richter scale.

His use of three solo instruments, violin, bassoon and harp invokes the concerto grosso and the sinfonia concertante, and, with the second and fourth of the work's five movements set for orchestra alone, there is a definite sense of Watkins playing deftly with form.

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda: Noseda plays the original version, without the chorus, which leaves the final transcendent moments to the orchestra alone - it will sound truncated to anyone who is used to the chorus, but Noseda makes as good a case as possible for Liszt's initial intentions.

And he left the orchestra alone--which is to say, he never meddled or fussed--to play "The Three-Cornered Hat" perhaps as beautifully as it can.

But what can any orchestra – let alone an ensemble that has played together only 14 times – actually achieve for peace?

When the highly praised orchestra performs alone, it is called the Staatskappelle orchestra.

And having three male dancers in tuxedos twirl and lift Ms. Mattila literally elevated her starry Salome, as well as taking the pressure off: she did not have to fill this 10-minute orchestra stretch alone.

There was a time, not all that long ago, when Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" was considered too difficult for some professional orchestras, let alone a student ensemble.