pianissimo

I told them, ‘Is there a way we can find space for rubato, pianissimo, glissando — all of that — so we can really play in the music?’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

Then in that first sort of chorus, where it’s quieter, more pianissimo, “I’m defying gravity. I think it’s time to defy gravity,” she’s not quite sure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024

They go through the whole movement, those trills, then the cluster chords with sforzandos, then you have a pianissimo progression.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

Ms. Freni had the ability to project even the softest pianissimo passages across a stage.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2020

He was still singing—“Not much money, Oh! but honey”—fixing his cufflinks, parting his hair; but then he looked up and saw his sister—“Ain’t we got”—and pianissimo now—“fun”—fell silent.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Edita Gruberova, a soprano who reigned over world opera stages for decades, dazzling audiences with her shimmering pianissimos and vocal pyrotechnics in the works of composers including Donizetti, Verdi and Richard Strauss, died Oct.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2021

This score provides a good acoustical test, its dynamic range running from celestial pianissimos to apocalyptic thunder.

From The New Yorker ● May 15, 2017

Throughout the evening, she may have gotten a little carried away making sudden shifts between dramatic outpouring and floating pianissimos, a tic becoming a predictable shtick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2014

Wagner-style “endless melodies” swell and pull back to harp-and-flute-sprinkled pianissimos, only to surge forward again, horns leading the charge.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2013

The music of this scene is grandly sustained by the orchestra, but the ensemble is difficult and requires much rehearsing, for it abounds in surprising fortes and pianissimos.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel