I fancy that bravura singing was once his forte, which is even still perceptible in him, and so far as age admits of it he has a good chest and a long breath; and then his andantino!
George Sand sings at best with the bravura of a beautiful grisette who has not yet breakfasted or happens not to be in good voice.
The pronounced bravura character of the piece would warrant the supposition that it was written expressly for the concert-room, even if the orchestral accompaniments were not there to prove the fact.
The wearing away of the edges in the curves of the instrument bear a striking testimony to the force with which he sawed the gut in his bravura passages on the first and fourth strings.
The theme is simply set forth, and the variations serve for the display of bravura playing with pizzicato and harmonics in the second movement, fourth string melody, and double harmonics in the third, and with the Finale resembling a Galopade.
Bravura Variations on an Original Theme, for violin and guitar, or pianoforte.
Bravura Variations on a theme from Rossini's "Moses in Egypt," for violin and string quartet, or pianoforte.
Bravura of the rampant kind is absent, and of cadenzas there is no sign.
This is taken up by the piano and developed at some length, eventually giving way to a bravura passage in triplets.
The whole of this bravura scene is admirably represented.
On the roof of an opposite house are two cats, performing what an amateur of music might perhaps call a bravura duet; near them appears A sweep, shrill twittering on the chimney-top.
The second air (13) is a long bravura song in one movement (allegro maestoso) in the grand style.
The song is admirably adapted for a bravura piece, affording to the singer an opportunity for the display of varied powers and great compass, together with artistic cultivation of the voice.
But I have sought to express 'Trennung war mein banges Loos und nun schwimmt mein Aug' in Thranen' as far as is compatible with an Italian bravura song.
We shall readily allow that he has been so far successful; and that, apart from the inserted bravura passages, the song is not only fine from a musical point of view, but appropriate to the situation.
Clorinda, is a bravura song, in the very fullest acceptation of the term.
Footnote 61: Rochlitz, whose opinions were identical, describes a bravura scena for a prima donna, which Mozart has also recorded (A.
But in the great bravura song of the second act everything has been sacrificed to Mdlle.
It is long and elaborate, well calculated to display great compass of voice, and more of bravura than the previous songs; but, as regards invention and mechanism, it is of less importance than those already noticed.
But it is curious that Mozart, who only introduced bravura into his dramatic music from complaisance to the singers, should have made concessions to the taste for it in this Mass.
It's all tone with Chopin--tone, my child, even in the most bravura passages.
They are proud women, especially the two younger; with ambition in them, with a bravura magnanimity, of the theatrical or operatic kind; of whom Louis is very fond.
Bravura magnanimity, blown upon by Belleisle, prevails among these high Improper Females, and generally in the Younger Circles of the Court; so that poor old Fleury has had no choice but to obey it or retire.
It is a mistake to consider bravura and character as opposite terms; ornamental passages are quite susceptible of characteristic expression, if they are delivered at the right time and in the right way.
The first (5) approaches as near as possible to a bravura song.
After 1774, Mozart's violin compositions take more of the bravura type, and afford a good standard of his technical development.
The special bravura song (II) is in the second act, "Ah, se il crudel periglio del caro ben ramento.
Finally, Scipio has two bravura songs (1, 10) with many passages, the second being remarkable for its length.
For the better contentment of the singer (the soprano Consoli from Munich), his second song is a genuine bravura (3).
Here Wolfgang has striven to express the somewhat whining pathos of the text both by the voice and the instruments, and the result is a bravura song, handled with great skill.
I am now making her sing passages in the great arie, because it is necessary if she goes to Italy that she should sing bravura songs; she will not forget her cantabile, because it comes natural to her.
The absence of allbravura in this part, in spite of the style of the songs, which seems to call for it, was no doubt to suit the particular singer--a seconda donna.
Sometimes, even in the bravura songs, pure, grand touches of melody light up their conventional surroundings; these are usually in the second part, and in the minor key.
What can such bravura players make of the melodies of Beethoven, so simple yet so profoundly imbued with sentiment?
Von Bulow is didactic: The requisite strength for this grandiose bravura study can only be attained by the utmost clearness, and thus only by a gradually increasing speed.
Kullak calls it a "bravura study of the very highest order for the left hand.
Kullak calls this "a bravura study for velocity and lightness in both hands.
Schumann thinks the third study in F less novel in character, although "here the master showed his admirable bravura powers.
They are chiaroscuro allegories in a bold bravura manner of the sixteenth century.
Not far from the landing-place a balustraded bridge of ample breadth and large bravura manner spans the main canal.
She raised the piano-cover and began playing a dashing bravura that was strikingly out of place in the dismantled room, then she closed the piano-lid with a slam.
The leading numbers of the last act are the bravura air, "Oh!
A bravura and finale of light, graceful melody close the opera.
To my great delight details that had always defied me, the rebellious trills, the faltering bravura passages, the uneven runs, all came into beautiful submission and with them came a new delight in playing.
Chopin's own playing was marked by delicacy and an intensity that was apart from the bravura playing of most of the artists of his time.
Much is lost in the great hall, and it is often unjust to determine the pianist's ability by his exclusively bravura performances in very large auditoriums.
Unfortunately, the first half of this fantasia is the song I have just noticed, with elaborate bravura passages for the piano, but the middle episode is much more like the real man.
Still, Sir Henry rushes in with what is officially described as a bravura song.
Then the bravura run returns, and then the harmonic arpeggio motive as before, but always carried out in different keys and chords.
