Both are masterworks which, delivered in performances of transcendental virtuosity, take an honoured place in the inexhaustible mainstream of musical humanism.
First, it showed him to be a competent architect among his peers and one capable of feats of technical virtuosity.
Why then have historians consistently tended to argue that there was a great discontinuity between seventeenth-century virtuosity and eighteenth-century connoisseurship?
Their playing showed an uncanny responsiveness and unity of ensemble, and a brilliant but self-effacing virtuosity in the service of profound musicality.
The exploitation of word refrains opens the way to a high degree of technical virtuosity and imaginative display in the vernacular.
In each of these three mappings, we get a different gesture, hence a different virtuosity and also different limits.
Looking at draped architectures, what one sees is the display of extravaganza, impetuousness, and technological virtuosity.
Mead brings a virtuosity to these works that is not often heard.
