Sentence examples for refined tone from inspiring English sources

He played its outer sections with a refined tone, letting the plaintive supple theme sing over a gauzy accompaniment.

Peter Wispelwey's refined tone makes a virtue of the work's uncertainties, negotiating its vacillations between introspection and display.

Lisa Batiashvili, the excellent soloist in the concerto, played with refined tone and lively temperament and offered a nice surprise, replacing the usual cadenza by Brahms's friend Joseph Joachim with one by Ferruccio Busoni, complete with timpani accompaniment.

The two violinists had been the soloists in the D minor Double Concerto, in which Terakado's more refined tone was a good foil for Yamaguchi's earthier sound, and they had led the larger orchestral forces in the Suite No 3 in D major, with the trumpets and timpani blending uncommonly well into the ensemble sound.

Music director Lothar Koenigs again showed his affinity for the repertoire of the Second Viennese School: in the three movements of Berg's Lyric Suite, the chamber-proportioned string ensemble produced refined tone, the first violins pellucid, Berg's passion carrying both restraint and a tortured ecstasy.

Bernstein's guitar offers the mellower side of the blues, and Le Donne returns for one last round using a "dirty" sound that contrasts perfectly with Bernstein's more refined tone.

If political conventions long ago stopped picking nominees and started selling them, the Republicans are intent this summer on refining the tone of the sales pitch and imposing an unparalleled degree of message discipline on the proceedings.

Ms. Prischepenko's playing is lustrous and expressive yet focused and honest; Mr. Sigl's tone is velvety, his playing refined; Mr. Weigle combines dusky tone with hotblooded urgency; Mr. Runge is a supremely musical and nuanced cellist.

Tetzlaff plays on a modern violin, made by the Bonn-based luthier Stefan-Peter Greiner, which can produce an unusually wide range of tones, from the refined to the wild.

Toward refining that tone, the firm sold off its Northern Department Store Group business to Bon Ton Stores in March — and brought on a steep 37% drop in revenue, to $760.7 million from $1.21 billion in the year-ago quarter.

He's a fine performer, with a warm tone and an impulsive, if refined, lyricism that makes him a natural interpreter for Schumann's concerto, with its melancholy elegance and flashes of mercurial wit.