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They were also pianistically conceived and were not meant for dancing.

It is a large-scaled, pianistically effective three-movement work with no original ideas.

It makes a difference to have a major pianist at the keyboard in this searching and pianistically elaborate work.

Overall, his playing was heavy-handed, both pianistically and musically.

Pianistically this is not remarkable - many passages are dense with quick notes, but with minimal or very easy changes of hand position.

Indeed, this account of one of the most challenging works in the repertory is stupefying pianistically.

Even the sprightly ones are pianistically formidable.

At least under his hands, the work sounded pianistically congenial (often, startlingly, like Rachmaninoff played upside down).

It also covers considerable ground pianistically.

Ruth Laredo was the impetuous and pianistically impressive soloist.

These are pianistically challenging pieces.

They were pianistically showy, in an almost Lisztian way, yet they sacrificed nothing of the music's tenderness.

The nocturne, Mr. Thibaudet acknowledged, "is not a big deal pianistically."

He was, in short, harmonically Fétis and pianistically Thalberg.

Figaro's aria returns, initially in its original C major, but is quickly varied both harmonically and pianistically.

"People think of Ellington more as a bandleader than as a pianist, but pianistically he was a king," he said.

The appearance, part of his reward, was pianistically impressive in many ways but left an incomplete picture of the young Frenchman as a musician.

Vocally and pianistically, Mr. Feinstein is no virtuoso.

The consequent of the second period contains a brilliantly swooshing, widely positioned arpeggio for both hands (bars 79 - 83) and is pianistically attractive.

The program he played on Tuesday evening at Weill Recital Hall was pianistically demanding and stylistically varied, with an accent on the cerebral.

He is pianistically sounder and steadier than Mr. Newman, and listeners to whom that is of paramount importance will almost surely prefer his cycle.

Composed at the instigation of the pianist Arthur Rubinstein in 1922, Duke's concerto was, in his words, "a one-movement, pianistically grateful, not too cerebral" piece.

Tausig was considered by some critics to be the greatest of Liszt's pupils, pianistically speaking, and to carry pure virtuosity to heights only suggested by Liszt.

Tatum took the Harlem stride style of Fats Waller and reinvented it, pushing it harmonically, polyphonically and pianistically beyond anything imagined.

Daniel Barenboim, defying purist strictures, contributed a ruminative, pianistically convincing account of the Bach "Goldberg" Variations (Erato 45468).