sonority

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Bax was a true partner at the piano, adjusting almost magically to every interpretive twist or turn by Hadelich, and fully providing the kind of near-orchestral sonority the score requires.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2021

“This silvery, fluty, bell-like sonority that seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at once.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2020

By the end, as Marnie sings “I’m free!” in upward-vaulting intervals, she is accompanied by an intricate, vital new sonority of piccolos, celesta, harp, and bowed crotales.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

Tendler offered a focused six-minute study in sonority and its absence.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2018

The new Steinway Grand is a glorious masterpiece in power, sonority, singing quality, and perfect harmonic effects, affording delight even to my old piano-weary fingers.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James