Sentence examples for passion setting from inspiring English sources

Under their new conductor, Kirill Karabits, they swept into the second symphony with youthful zeal, the strings pushing the sudden crescendos and diminuendos of the opening figure with exaggerated passion, setting a tone of heightened emotion that ran through the entire piece, even in the beautifully played pianissimo pizzicato of the second movement and the heartfelt oboe solo of the third.

Before the performance of his piece, Gabriel Jackson spoke to Christopher Cook about his Passion setting - commissioned by Merton College, Oxford, to mark the 750th anniversary of its foundation last year - and about its libretto, compiled by Merton 's chaplain, the Reverend Dr Simon Jones.

This polystylistic Passion setting was the centerpiece of a Golijov festival here only last year.

Unusually for a Passion setting, "Golgotha" ends with the triumph of the Resurrection rather than the sorrow of the Crucifixion.

The St. John Passion setting of Alessandro Scarlatti is a strictly liturgical work that follows the text with scrupulous accuracy and refrains from undue elaboration.

Using words drawn from St John's Gospel, this is a Passion setting where, at least on the surface, not a great deal happens.

"Suzhou River" (2000), his breakthrough film, is a noirish tale of obsessive passion set along the murky waterways of industrial Shanghai.

Jazz (1992) is a story of violence and passion set in New York City's Harlem during the 1920s.

Gove has clearly chosen to portray himself as the man with passion, set against the clinical efficiency of Theresa May.

On my last morning in Berlin, I accompanied Rapace to the "Passion" set, inside an apartment building in a fashionable neighborhood.

"Empire of Passion," set in 1895, concerns an adulterous love affair that is haunted by the ghost of the murdered husband.