The strings, particularly in Mr. Jansons's plangent reading of the finale, were rich-toned and supple, qualities matched by the remarkably focused woodwind and brass sections.
She embraced the supple qualities of wood and its potential for textured surfaces, which she gashes to make them look scarred and eroded.
The sound was magnificent and ample, but also with light and supple qualities gained from the unanimity of intonation, timbre and phrasing that Mr. Mackenzie had worked to achieve.
The elder man gives the "Serenade" a supple, elegiac quality that is more than mere nostalgia, but in the "Nocturne," a discursive and mysterious cycle that has never been as popular as the other two works, Bostridge transcends his predecessor.
Château Greysac, Médoc ($17) A cru bourgeois whose sandy vineyards stretch along the Gironde River shore north of Saint-Estèphe, Greysac's blend is Merlot-driven, which gives the medium-bodied wine a supple, luscious quality, while its substantial portion of Cabernet gives it firmness and grip; the '99 is drinking beautifully right this minute.
It doesn't need burled wood, supple glove-quality leather or kinetically designed cantilevered dashboard controls.
Burton Raffel, the American translator who produced a modern English version in 2006, told me he tackled "Candide" to update and correct earlier English versions but also for its "supple prose and the quality of its jokes".
The supreme quality of their supple, sensitive, elegant arts may be the scariest thing about them, because it testifies that a civilization based on slaughter steadied and inspired human genius.
According to Zomaré magazine, the quality of Jaojoby's "supple tenor" voice, the creativity of his compositions and the singer's willingness to experiment have helped to distinguish him from his peers.
We can find in some of the material choices the search for this particular monolithic quality which is nevertheless supple and flexible, such as the use of "Calçada" - Portuguese cobblestones - as the main plaza/exterior ground pavement; the particular tectonic feeling afforded by this material creates a more elastic layout where the connected levels and pathways are easily interchangeable.
