As one might expect from a choreographer who thinks in terms of visual and musical images, the words came second.

The Gewandhaus's spacious, soft acoustics reinforce the relaxed musical image.

The flickering musical images of the middle movement are often luminous, but the conductor's characteristic rhythmic snap makes them also tense and impulsive.

The musical images are colorful, often dazzling; every page of the score supplies ingenious illustrative figuration.

Take away the certainty of authorship, and it's devilishly difficult to read the musical images within.

Each section, as in the musical image, would be distinct even though they share the same performance.

With this album, Atkins once again changed his musical image.

Playing techniques manifest the "speaking" of musical images and are devised anew in each piece, or series of works.

His tales have included danced memoirs, but more often they are hermetic and buried within musical or theatrical images.

Shostakovich placed the work's emphasis on the effect of musical images rather than on symphonic coherence.