Based on Virginia Woolf's glittering fantasia written as a love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, the story covers four hundred years of history. |
His choral setting, initially in octaves, with its transposed Dorian mode on G, evolves into a kind of fantasia on the original responsory. |
In general, however, the fantasia became a potpourri of themes from operas compiled by virtuoso pianists as display pieces. |
The subtitle reminds listeners that the piece, although technically a sonata, is suggestive of a free-flowing, improvised fantasia. |
Climbing to the surface, the ad explodes in a fantasia of lurid colour, like a milkshake made from a pair of Jimi Hendrix's trousers. |
We can expect the battle for the last remaining dregs of the fossil fuel fantasia to be vicious. |