The opening section of the first movement of the Ninth unfolded in one great Proustian paragraph, lucid yet impassioned.
The most exhilarating section of the first Olympia film is the long-jump final, in which black American athlete Jesse Owens faces the white German champion Luz Long.
Its architect, Charles E. Birge, left the upper facade intact but added an elegant bronze storefront over the lower section of the first floor.
Whole stretches of the Third Concerto, in C minor, especially the subdued interchanges in the development section of the first movement, have the intimacy of chamber music.
Two components were designed: (1) an opaque, well insulated, homogeneous panel and (2) a window, which is used to replace the central section of the first component.
The near-stasis early in the development section of the first movement added point and poignancy to Mahler's haltings and misdirections.
Take the central section of the first movement, for example, a passage that's dominated by a single rhythm – the one you've originally heard in the second bar of the piece.
There was, for example, the hushed development section of the first movement of the Brahms, when, over a hypnotically repeated octave in the low register of the piano, the violin and the piano traded lacy, winding, high-lying melodic phrases.
The Mahler, too, needed more delirium in the anarchic development section of the first movement, where Bernstein, in his readings, seemed to send all of Charles Ives's marching bands into the coffeehouses of Vienna.
Where the music turns dreamy, as in the meditative middle section of the first movement, Mr. Andsnes projected the wistful inner voices with clarity and spaciousness, but without a trace of sentimentality.
In one section of the first movement, Paderewski not only carefully notated a series of inner voices, but also put accent marks above them, so that pianists would not miss the point.
