sonorities

The music, with its piercing sonorities, its complicated rhythmic patterns, seemed like so much tonal confusion, so much riot of sound.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The title track typifies the songlike, folk-rootsy lyricism of the set, and Utnem's harmonium blends gracefully with the low-sliding sonorities of Seim's sax here and there.

Trygve Seim/Andreas Utnem: Purcor – review John Fordham 2010

Robert Schumann, born just one hundred years before Samuel Barber, was featured in his Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, a complex work of big-boned, symphonic dimensions with thick sonorities.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

Robert Schumann, born just one hundred years before Samuel Barber, was featured in his Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, a complex work of big-boned, symphonic dimensions with thick sonorities.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

Robert Schumann, born just one hundred years before Samuel Barber, was featured in his Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, a complex work of big-boned, symphonic dimensions with thick sonorities.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

Fringe Magnetic, led by composer, trumpeter and Jamie Cullum sideman Rory Simmons, hitch the elegant sonorities of classical strings to Fraud's James Allsopp, Outhouse's Robin Fincker, Tom Arthurs bassist Jasper Hoiby and that fine pianist Ivo Neame and – like Portico Quartet – they make much use of clipped phrases hinting at hidden songs, over rhythms intended to mesh, and not mesh, with them.

This week's new live music Andrew Clements 2010

For Copland's Sonata for Violin and Piano, a work steeped in the sort of folksy harmonies and sonorities that characterize his best-known pieces, Jackiw explored the other extremes of tone production.

Music review: Violinist Stefan Jackiw at the Jewish Community Center Post 2010

Robert Schumann, born just one hundred years before Samuel Barber, was featured in his Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, a complex work of big-boned, symphonic dimensions with thick sonorities.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

Sometimes there is an emphasis on sound at the expense of the words, but what a sound: perfectly blended, carefully balanced, its sonorities reaching back effortlessly to conjure up a vanished age of devotion.

Stile Antico: Puer natus est – review Nicholas Kenyon 2010

Robert Schumann, born just one hundred years before Samuel Barber, was featured in his Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, a complex work of big-boned, symphonic dimensions with thick sonorities.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010