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

Making the best of the little you’ve got may or may not be the theme of “Morning Sun,” the pianissimo new play by Simon Stephens that opened Off Broadway on Wednesday.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

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

Her “limpid trills and transparent pianissimos in all registers are models of the bel canto approach to coloratura singing,” Frederick M. Winship, a critic for United Press International, wrote in 1989.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2021

I love the passage when in one phrase Mr. Kaufmann builds from pleading pianissimos to a heroic top note.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017

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

In the fortissimo passages his tone was immense, and his pianissimos were the most delicate whispers.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews