| This work represents not Beethoven the titan, but Beethoven as composer of warmly songful instrumental music. |
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| Gluzman played the songful Violin Sonata with unaffected musicality and sensitive lyricism. |
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| A sensitive ear for voicing is needed to project the songful melodies effectively wherever they turn up in the texture. |
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| It is in the slow movement that some of the most songful and heart-warming music is found. |
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| But the most affecting parts are the shimmering poetic pieces that turn the piano into the most songful instrument you could wish for. |
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| The last of the three, the famous B flat Major Sonata, is ethereal, introspective and utterly songful in its deep and sustained lyricism. |
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| Its songful, introspective nature is interrupted repeatedly by long pauses, brief exclamations and harmonic surprises. |
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| The Adagio had ravishing, songful stretches, but the emotional temperature remained low. |
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| The mysterious haunting intervals of the opening are expanded and amplified to a bitter intensity by the violin, only to melt into a second subject that is the quintessence of songful tenderness. |
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| The Western Mail's rugby columnist Carolyn Hitt conceded Welsh fans are not as robustly songful as they once were. |
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| These three songful siblings are finding their voices after some intensive care from the zoo's experts. |
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| At times, I wanted him to intervene more pointedly: the Scherzos could have used a stronger rhythmic thrust, and some lyric phrases might have had a more songful shape. |
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