Using the principal themes and arias, taken from the Naxos recording of the complete work.
That said, Mr. Szasz and Mr. Lester have managed to set out the novel's principal themes, and a surprising number of its main events, with honorable clarity.
Since memory was one of his principal themes and his own memory had for most of his life been second to none, the last years of his life were poignant in the extreme.
Using the principal themes and arias, taken from the Naxos recording of the complete work, Thomson Smillie is informative yet entertaining, enabling the listener to get more from this remarkable art form.
Loosely based on a thriller by Graham Greene, Fritz Lang's "Ministry of Fear," from 1944, begins with a brilliant, dreamlike sequence, some 20 minutes in length, that seems to have been spun from the principal themes and most memorable images of Lang's silent work in Weimar Germany.
Between the Mozart and the Schubert, the players gave a magical performance of Elliott Carter's Quartet No. 5 (1995), which was prefaced by a brief discussion of the work by Mr. Carter, who asked each of the musicians to play the principal themes and gestures of their parts.
Describing this "gigantic" piece, Ronald Smith comments that it convinces for the same reasons as does the music of the classical masters; "the underlying unity of its principal themes, and a key structure that is basically simple and sound".
The principal theme of the book and play is that man has the free will to change his image.
A principal theme is the attraction and repulsion of the anatomical focus of femininity to the male eye, which induces a fascinated fear, rather like standing on the edge of cliff.
There were other lovely moments from the strings, especially in the sighing principal theme of the first movement and its offshoot in the second.
