Examples of symphonic

• Works such as the magnificent Petrushka stand among the greatest symphonic works of any era.

• His sessions listening to symphonic music with his friend Edmund Anderson had changed him.

• The concert's first half was given over to symphonic fragments, starting with Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759.

• In the grand symphonic tradition of Mahler and Shostakovich, Corigliano has fashioned a kaleidoscope of layered instrumental textures.

• The way in which the Fourth Symphony is constructed owes very little to traditional 19th-century norms, but it is truly symphonic and truly original.

• This view was not his but that of the disciples, eager to defend him against conservative critics whose orientation was towards symphonic composition.

• Each of the five massive movements has its own character and yet the work coheres as a symphonic essay of sustained power and brilliance.

• The song-object now dissolves into symphonic extensions without the further threat of silence or the need for strophic markers.