It is "a masterly and meticulous" work.

The Schumann Fantasia in C is a masterly work written in homage to Beethoven.

The Second Symphony was received more positively, one critic calling it "the most masterly work of its kind since Mendelssohn".

Fifteen years later the critic Arthur Eaglefield Hull wrote that the First Symphony was "a masterly work of great beauty".

But in this masterly work he managed to engage his intellect while still providing an accessible piece for a civic occasion.

It is a masterly work with a variety of voices, from the straightforward, almost dry, to the quirky and the witty.

Long before the final connections are made, Wilson's masterly work shows us the devastating - and ineradicable - effects of war on the human soul and the national psyche.

Villa Falconieri was damaged by bombing during World War II but masterly work restored its previous splendor.

This is, indeed, a masterly work, in which the characteristic difficulties of the subject are resolutely faced and expounded with as much simplicity as their nature will admit.

Walter, in his memoirs, described "the composer's cool and perfect piano performance of the rather artificial but masterly work."