But the players did not seem especially involved, and their music-making lacked elegance and tonal beauty.

And to the very end, he drew playing of the utmost tonal beauty from his orchestras.

They have a familiar, elegant tonal beauty, but each one is a verbal emergency, original and startling.

She sang with characteristic tonal beauty and lyrical grace.

First and foremost, the interpretation offered great tonal beauty and an unerring balance of parts.

Long, falling chords quivered in his ears with alien tonal beauty of muted strings.

He brought unusual vocal distinction to the part yet readily sacrificed sheer tonal beauty to put across textual points: a compelling performance.

His is a tone rich and refined, but tonal beauties never become ends in themselves.

She simply would not swallow a consonant, even where doing so might have enhanced sheer tonal beauty; she provided plenty of that in any case.

The results were pretty enough, but the hall combats some sorts of luxurious tonal beauty and the interpretations seemed predicated on just that.