Word: complementing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many ways, Edward Sullivan and his younger brother complement each other perfectly. Ed, now 73, is not quite as outgoing and not quite as forgiving as Walter...
...considered disturbingly sexy (but then, so was the bustle). Nowadays, what % women seem to want is unhampered, ungartered, unmitigated eroticism a la Lolita. Underwear is already worn on the outside -- stuff that looks as if it comes from the lingerie department (and often does), and thigh-highs only complement the picture...
Emmanuel Ax returns with his rich and globular tone, but more often than not in this recording it acts as an obscuring miasmic veil, rather than a complement to the strings. He has an extremely heavy left hand and a matching right foot on the sustaining pedal. His efforts are more appropriate for piano concerti than for these subtly textured chamber works...
...Brahms release was the neartotal absence of the higher registers. As usual, Stern simply failed to get appreciable resonance from his instrument and was often downright tinny. Ax dominated the middle and lower registers, edging out Laredo and Ma in the process, and a lack of a suitable complement in the upper range gave this recording a disturbing hollow quality. Even Sony's 20-bit "Super Bit-Mapping" recording techniques didn't seem to make a substantial difference...
Their release of the Consort Music of William Byrd is a most welcome complement to the Tallis Scholars' sublime recording of Byrd's Great Service on Gimell...