Sentence examples for use of period instruments from inspiring English sources

Ms. Di Vincenzo said the use of period instruments "can help you understand the real nature of the music".

There were rewarding aspects to the performance: lithe tempos, clear textures (thanks in part to the orchestra's considered use of period instruments and Mr. Levin's own rebuilt 1830 Conrad Graf fortepiano).

The countertenor David Daniels, making his Mostly Mozart Festival debut, was the orchestra's guest, a most appropriate one, for, like the ensemble's use of period instruments, Mr. Daniels's utterly natural singing enables you to forget that he is a supposedly rarefied kind of vocal specialist.

But here, the use of period instruments (L'Orchestre des Champs Elysees, which Mr. Herreweghe founded in 1991), the combined choirs of La Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale and two fine soloists (the soprano Christiane Oelze and the baritone Gerald Finley) bring a wonderful transparency to the score.

He mixed classical mainstays with contemporary works and premieres and placed a new emphasis on outreach to schools, vocal-arts programmes and training for young singers and musicians.Dunn was succeeded in 1986 by Christopher Hogwood, a renowned conductor and early-music advocate, who inaugurated the use of period instruments.

While the use of period instruments is taken for granted in many areas of the operatic and orchestral repertory right up to the early 19th century, and even into the early 20th century with the performances by François-Xavier Roth and his orchestra Les Siècles, the 19th-century keyboard repertory is proving more resistant; the Steinway still rules supreme for a huge proportion of new piano discs.

You're using the period instruments group the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

And John Solum joins the violinist Judson Griffin, the violist Jennie Hansen and the cellist Barbara Bogatin for performances (using period instruments) of all four of the Mozart Flute Quartets on Saturday at 8 P.M. at Music Mountain, near Falls Village (296-2596).

Most conductors who come from the early-music movement and use period instruments favor fleeter tempos and lighter textures.

He's doing it using only period instruments.

The orchestra is a roster of period-instrument virtuosos.