Word: tempi
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...Look you, I conduct like this. This is my opening tempo. Here, I take it this way, then I take it that way. (It is customary procedure for the soloist to dictate the tempi and nuances.) "Just watch my stick, and nothing terrible will happen," he went...
...made his name known to every serious jazz buff. But after 20 years in an industry whose inflated lexicon calls every rock performer a star, Benson is still little recognized by the public. His style is romantic but ascetic - free of unnecessary electric trickery. Although he favors the slow tempi of Paul Desmond's Take Five, he can erupt in a blistering display of technique and energy like My Latin Brother. This record is bad in the traditional jazz sense: that means it is very good indeed...
...Goethe is generally known only by three orchestral pieces- the exuberant Rákdóczy March, the Dance of the Sylphs and the Minuet of the Will o' the Wisp. With out diminishing the lushness of the com poser's symphonic texture, Ozawa's crisp tempi add clarity and continuity to the 20-scene, four-part work. The oval sounds of Soprano Edith Mathis brush a fresh bloom on Marguerite's Romance (D'amour I'ardenteflamme...
...Ives and the top-priority commitment to the soloist, this great warhorse must have received the least rehearsal time, and it showed. The necessity of placing it last on the program--when the players would be most tired--introduced further complications, yet the occasional ensemble problems, rushed tempi and brass bloopers only partially detracted from the pleasure of hearing this symphony performed live, with conductor James Yannatos' energetic tempi and the big, full sound that the HRO can always muster...
...Sheba that contains a rare recorded example of Caruso's using falsetto, are the most unusual items. A pair of "Celeste Aidas" (1906 and 1908) raises the question of whether every performance even by the recording industry's first superstar deserves resurrection. In the earlier version tempi are sluggish, with a lugubrious beginning and general somnambulance that pervades until the final phrases. The voice, however, evolving from the seamless lyricism of youth to the huge golden sound of maturity, overcomes any serious complaints...