In Mr. Farnes's performance, they were executed with crisp rhythmic clarity.

He did, and he just couldn't believe that we achieved everything - the harmonies, the melodies and the rhythmic clarity - through conducted improvisation.

What we now expect from such an intricately voiced work is not just grandeur but transparency, rhythmic clarity, distinct instrumental textures.

The striking rhythmic clarity of Debussy's playing is a chastisement to those who perform his works in an Impressionistic blur.

The gaudy eruptions at the end of Ravel's second "Daphnis et Chloe" Suite never surrendered rhythmic clarity.

Mr. Corea himself, at the piano and the Fender Rhodes keyboard, hammered out fascinating phrases with hard, rhythmic clarity.

The two-piano version, he claimed, had far greater harmonic and rhythmic clarity.

The Brahms Fantasies suffered from an excess of rubato and an occasional lack of rhythmic clarity.

In his book, the mechanics of seduction, running a saloon, falling out of love, making your younger sister thoroughly unhappy, have a rhythmic, energetic clarity.

And he brought textural and rhythmic clarity to the bumptious finale with no loss of playfulness.