During a recital at Zankel Hall on Wednesday evening, the brilliant Emmanuel Pahud performed Bach's flute sonatas with remarkable tone and technical finesse, ably accompanied by two stellar colleagues: the harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock and the cellist Jonathan Manson.
Given that he has made his name by silently waving a stick, not a pen, Gardiner's stylistic finesse is remarkable, and it reveals much about the kind of metaphorical thinking musicians – and especially conductors – habitually do, translating sound into image, the auditory into the linguistic.
He's a remarkable talent who celebrates finesse on the piano married to the drums and percussion of his homeland.
From the covered podium of the Festspielhaus, unseen by the audience, Daniel Barenboim led a reading shattering in its raw power yet equally remarkable for transparency, lyricism and finesse.
The signature Barbaresco from this producer is the Asili, a wine with remarkable length as well as finesse.
After joining Katz in "Tampere Raw," she delivered a jaw-dropping reading of "Corrente della Primavera". A pianistic tour de force from 2002, the work's scintillating, white-hot cascades of sound demand both power and exceptional lightness of touch, and Yang brought it off with effortless finesse; a memorable performance of a remarkable work.
The violinist Cho-Liang Lin, a jury member at the competition (where Mr. Hadelich won numerous special awards, as well as the gold medal), recalled that the "finesse, charisma and beautiful nuances" of his performances were remarkable in a wide range of repertory.
Connolly is wonderful in French song, and the finesse and emotional range she brought to Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Été were often remarkable: Le Spectre de la Rose combined sincerity with understated brilliance; Sur les Lagunes, the cycle's heart of darkness, had an operatic weight and intensity, with Martineau maintaining its steady barcarolle rhythm with almost obsessive persistence.
