The BBC Symphony Orchestra sounded incisive and crisp on First Night, the influence of Sakari Oramo, also a violinist, as music director already audible in the strings, especially in the overture to Nielsen's Maskarade.
Shaw's soloists, Richard Stilwell and Arleen Aug? are more winning, and his performance generally sounds more incisive, if only because of the way it was recorded.
From the first lines of Norma's entrance — in which the druids, chafing under the degradation they suffer from the Romans, are poised to rebel — Ms. Meade sounded in complete command of the role, delivering the character's charged, defiant dramatic recitative with gleaming sound and incisive attack.
If the performance was a little rough, it pulsed with earthy sound and incisive energy.
He looked and sounded more incisive than he often does; the hall listened attentively and applauded his jokes.
Ms. Frank answered, justifiably, that the crunchy dissonances of her chords sound more incisive on the piano.
The piece opens with tolling funereal bells in the low register of the piano, which Mr. Kissin played with steely sound and incisive attack.
As Enrico, Lucia's bullying brother, the baritone Mariusz Kwiecien was terrific, commanding the stage and singing with robust sound and incisive execution.
Fortunately, this and other such challenges have not been lost on the Obama administration who have been accumulating sound and incisive advice on exactly these issues.
Inglis continued to develop his theories on teaching engineering and wrote in the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1947 on the teaching of engineering mathematics: "Mathematics [required by engineers] though it must be sound and incisive as far as goes, need not be of that artistic and exalted quality which calls for the mentality of the real mathematician.
