pianistic
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Although the source material changed, the fundamental Jamal style remained the appealing sound it had always been, enhanced by growingly rhapsodic pianistic touches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2023
In the first movement, subtle, rolling bass frequencies in the percussion bloomed and seemed to organically inspire intense pianistic volleys between Trifonov and Babayan.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
So this was also a chance to just pull all that stuff that is a pianistic challenge into a bigger picture.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
All that is winged, even the grating corn crake, is painted with a mystical birder’s unworldly rose-colored pianistic glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Compared to the music of his teacher Haydn or to Mozart, it seems much more dramatic and pianistic, almost to the point of theatricality, than anything they had written for the same instrument.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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