These come, as does everything here, through finely wrought, sensual phrase-work, in the tradition of potent choreographers like Trisha Brown (whose 1973 work "Spanish Dance" was quoted), Vicky Shick and Susan Rethorst, for whom Ms. Hansen dances.
Directing from the violin, Monica Huggett's intelligent decorations and sensual phrasing ensure an elegant performance from the strings.
In eight "Mélodies" by Duparc, she sang with a lovely, robust, voluptuous voice and dramatic conviction, caressing the sensual phrases with skillful shading and control.
These players have the feel for Turina's gorgeous colors and sensual phrases, but the ear labored unreasonably hard to penetrate the Miami's murky ensemble playing.
The solution was to find more varied and more sensual ways of ending phrases — like drawing charcoal over paper, creating a curved or straight line.
The piece I heard, "We Were All," had all the Haber trademarks I love: the melodic loops of phrases, the sensual tonalities and the completely original harmonic language.
The voices swelled with sensual languor in a gorgeously phrased rendition of Orlande de Lassus's "Osculetur Me".
Girlish when she sings high and loud, she becomes deeply sensual when softly purring long-lined phrases with a pulsing vibrato that suggests the beating of hummingbird wings and ghosts whistling in the chimney.
Ms. Price is a magnificent Tosca, singing with vibrant, throbbing intensity when it is called for, and spinning Tosca's coyly romantic phrases in Act I with sensual lyricism and grace.
She was hungry for sensual experience but had, in her own delicate phrase, "a delayed sense of consequence".
Some may prefer a more sensual tone in Strauss, but her breath control, phrasing and ability to convey the meaning of the text without fracturing the line remain exemplary.
