Word: adagio
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...Shadow of a Doubt) for the toxic scent of small-town failure in The Man Who Wasn't There. Both films serve up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. But the Coen movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand locked in a jealous adagio, is twistily faithful to the noir formula. The Lynch, which sails through its first 90 minutes as a ripping yarn about a mystery woman (brunet Laura Harring) and the would-be starlet (blond Naomi Watts) who gets involved with her, goes defiantly, inexplicably weird in its final third. And jolly smart...
...Paul Oakenfold mix starts off rather moodily with four intense trance tracks, but becomes more danceable as Oakenfold gets into a house groove. Throughout, Oakenfold's mix remains an emotional one, with the high point being his interpolation of Barber's classical piece "Adagio for Strings...
...pays off. William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style, a collection of synthesizer arrangements of pieces by classical greats ranging from Vivaldi to Satie, is a case in point. When Orbit, Madonna's producer, sticks close to the composers' arrangements and instrumentation, as he does on Barber's "Adagio for Strings," the songs don't profit from the synthesizer's virtues and still suffer its vices. "Adagio" sounds like the work of a very tired string orchestra...
...integrity of a shot of espresso but just in a more subdued manner. The reward of this "quiet" performance was evident for all who listened carefully. The piano-playing abilities of renowned German pianist Christian Zacharias were both impressive and compelling. Especially touching was the way he handled the "Adagio." Zacharias's ability to juxtapose articulation with lyrical continuity was particularly shown in this movement. His fingers and notes were light, breezy and even playful at times...
Conversely, his adagio was more of an allegretto and here he may have been a little too playful. Ohlsson spun out long melodic lines, though his pedalling was admirably spare; and though the rhythm of the variations changed in predictable ways, his phrasing was never predictable...