cantabile

• “As Joplin famously noted of all his compositions, "It is never right to play 'ragtime' fast," while his concert waltz "Bethena" adds the direction "cantabile" - "as if singing.”

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• “Some of these arias were written in a virtuoso style, with rich vocal lines and complex instrumental accompaniment; others were cantabile, meaning simpler in style and intended mainly to highlight the feelings or thoughts of a character, with little ornamentation and the instrumentation kept in the background.”

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• “As all of you who watch this show should know, "cantabile" means "in a singing style," and that is exactly what the first eight bars of this piece sound like.”

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• “He contrived a thrilling balance between cantabile and cutting edge, with a daring line in tiny pianissimos.”

  The Guardian: The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 – review

• “The Kungsbacka Trio are embarking on a series, and this first volume includes the famous "Gypsy Rondo", dispatched with mirth, and some lovely movements such as the serene Allegro, ma dolce of the D major trio and the more severe Andante cantabile of the E flat minor trio; in the F sharp minor trio there's a version of a movement from his Symphony No 102.”

  The Guardian: Haydn: Piano Trios Vol 1, Nos 24, 25, 26, 31 – review

• “It is a sorry fact of today's opera world that homogenized loudness is often valued above individualized refinement, yet Mr. Calleja's plangent cantabile phrasing, in which each note is connected in a seamless golden line, recalls the old masters like Gigli whose voice his most resembles and more recent exponents of exquisite vocal art, like Carlo Bergonzi and the late Alain Vanzo.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Here to Deal With the Devil

• “In addition to the smooth transitions between both the divergent, heterophonically-interwoven tunes and between tonal, modal and atonal pivots of the different sections, Olivero also presents a rhythmic dichotomy, between slow-paced, rhythmically flexible cantabile sections and harshly syncopated, rhythmic intersecting phrases.”

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• “But the cantabile ideal fell afoul of early recording technology, which was too insensitive to capture its delicate beauty.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What Music Has Lost

• “The performers of the Golden Age, Mr. Hamilton explains, cultivated a cantabile or "singing" tone, modeled after the leading singers of the early 19th century.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What Music Has Lost

• “Yup, then i watched nodame cantabile on my bro's com.”

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