He vividly dramatized each of Schumann's elegant epigrams, though his pitch was not as reliable in sustained softer passages.

And even in the sustained loud passages, the brass chords were well balanced and tuned - exquisitely so in the work's final pages.

Some stretches in sustained passages turned breathy.

It was an authentic experience of the piece, even though the tone grew rather hard and worked sounding in sustained loud passages.

His pieces begin emphatically and build to sustained melodic passages in which both hands crunch out sequences of splayed chords that are marginally blues-inflected.

And in sustained loud passages she stiffened a bit, and lost some of her variety of gesture.

Yet few works of any kind have so many sustained passages of wondrously ethereal music.

There are dance sequences with fractured meters that interrupt the action, and shimmering sustained harmonic passages that underscore it.

There were worrisome signs of strain in his singing: sustained passages that turned patchy, notes both high and low that sounded forced.

He also punctuated these sustained passages with sudden tremors and staggers.