Sentence examples for virtuosic playing from inspiring English sources
Infusing the classics with punch and pizzazz (as heard on the 2014 release "Viper's Drag"), this feel-good band never lets virtuosic playing take precedence over collective joy.
Misha Rachlevsky, the ensemble's music director (who founded it in 1991), elicited warm, full-blooded and virtuosic playing with colorfully shaped, gleaming phrases.
"He wasn't the most chops-aholic guy," Mr. Feigenbaum said, noting that Mr. Hopper was always more interested in blending with the band and knitting the music together from the bottom than with virtuosic playing.
A pause follows, and then: "In India, when we say short …" Yet he keeps to his word, to the evident disappointment of the audience, who break into cheers at some of his most virtuosic playing.
Disparity sees Longfield raise her virtuosic playing and unique tapping technique to astounding new heights.
The musicologist Adrian Thomas notes that the symphony lacks dissonance outside of modal inflections (that is, occasional use of pitches that fall outside the mode), and that it does not require nonstandard techniques or virtuosic playing.
This came off better than the composer's Fifth Symphony, where balance was a problem and textures sounded tangled, despite some typically virtuosic LSO playing.
But Thompson can come to seem like an assembly line, though one of high quality: his lachrymose vocals and virtuosic guitar playing can occasionally render his albums exercises in expertise rather than flesh-and-blood art.
Instead its sound is remarkably trim and focused, with sharp-edged, virtuosic brass playing as one of its hallmarks but also a polished (if never exactly silken) string sound and agile woodwind work.
Throughout the 10 tracks on the album, Simon tells stories in his inimitable way, backed by musical arrangements that highlight his virtuosic guitar playing as well as his singular vocals and the spiritual strengths of his lyrics.
I prefer these virtuosic pieces played with more playfulness.
