The Mozart, too, sounded sluggish.
Last time they played these sites they looked tired and sounded sluggish.
The problem was that his note to retain the tempo from the previous passage caused the music to sound sluggish.
Both Ms. Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic sound sluggish, dutiful and heavy-limbed on the 1980 recording when compared to the sprightly new release.
Their conversations, studded with hefty pauses, sound sluggish and adult, and only when Owen takes his new acquaintance to buy candy ("It's really, really good") do we hear the authentic tones of youth.
The modern piano here is a Bösendorfer, and it is amazing how muted the opening sounds and how sluggish the whole thing feels in comparison with the lithe and lively Wolf-Streicher version.
But with Mr. Wadsworth's indistinct playing and the bassist Lewis Paer's thickening of the string textures, the performances sounded muddy and sluggish.
"Das irdische Leben" was accurate but cool; "Das himmlische Leben" is simply written for a lighter, higher voice, and made her sound a little sluggish, through no fault of her own.
The International Monetary Fund was yet to sound an alarm that sluggish post-GFC growth and pervasive income inequality was making democratic societies unstable and politics dysfunctional.
