The album opens with a pensive, delicate performance of Mr. Sorensen's short, hushed and enigmatic "Lullabies".
Alice Tully Hall was nearly full on Thursday night for the second program of the TullyScope festival, when Axiom, an excellent contemporary music ensemble from the Juilliard School, and the Clarion Choir gave a pensive and mystical performance of the 30-minute "Rothko Chapel" in a fascinating program of works by Feldman and the Romanian-born modernist Gyorgy Kurtag.
He ended his performance in pensive silence, looking away from us as the stage lights went down.
In his probing performances these pensive and mystical late Brahms works seemed anything but anticlimactic.
Hauschka, a composer from Düsseldorf, Germany, played Minimalist pieces for string quartet and piano, pensive meditations with a performance-art twist.
The whole performance, from the pensive opening of the first movement to the crackling finale, was terrific.
Mr. Wainwright was also represented by the lustrous soprano Amy Burton's intimate performance of a pensive aria in French from his new opera "Prima Donna".
Gil Kaufman from MTV News found the performance to be pensive, saying that "leave it to Lady Gaga to go completely the other direction [than the tone of the show]".
In "Tongues" Michelle Fleet, pensive and prickly, delivers a forlorn performance as the Daughter Grown Up, the abused wife of a reptilian Sean Mahoney.
Yet, on Sunday evening, the Crossing, the impressive 24-voice ensemble, ended a varied program of pensive, contemporary choral pieces with a performance of this nearly 40-minute score, which won Mr. Lang the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2008.
