“She was plangently moving in her slower music, but in her faster passagework she gave the music a wonderful shape and direction.”

“In London, in 1951, a little girl skips past an undertaker's hearse in the fog, and you know that the whole of her life is being plangently prefigured.”

“There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.”