The performances of the nocturnes are particularly fine, played with pearly sound, melting lyricism and textural clarity.
Legato, for her, is not just a matter of moving smoothly through pitch intervals; one vowel sound melts into the next, one color into another, and the result is a line that is supple, rich in sound and full of emotional appeal.
After intermission, he offered fascinating accounts of four Chopin works: the Polonaise in C minor, the Impromptu in A flat (Op. 29), the Étude in A flat (from "Trois Nouvelles Études") and the Nocturne in E. This was not Chopin for those who like the music played with luxurious sound, melting lyricism and expansive rubato.
Through a deep receptivity for a sense of space and environment in his performances, Vince has surprised audiences with his mature and transcendent sound, melting uninitiated faces after an impromptu support set on Boiler Room for Japanese noise godhead Keiji Haino.
At a few points everything aligned as something like a house-music club track, but the sounds melted and distorted, and the big beat went into hiding as the music subsided into hums and radar beeps.
By Donna Joy The New Yorker, May 24 , 1982P. 66 Without sound, sun melts snow.
This last was a frenzy of sound that melted into almost human voices.
Each produced a powerful, warm-hued sound that melted easily into subtlety and gentleness when that was required, as in Mr. Rorem's beautiful "What if Some Little Pain," sung by Ms. McDonald, and Mr. Hendricks's account of Copland's "All the Little Horses".
Hark to the sound of melting credit cards!
Her sound was melting and lustrous in the long phrases of the first movement, "Phaedrus," and alluringly veiled in "Aristophanes".
