The fugal finale was full of clarity of motivic detail, every part in place, building thrilling momentum. |
The cadenza's fugal opening was arresting, followed by Beethovenian drama and power. |
There follows a chapter on the three fugal finales from op.20, its start a high point of felicitous writing. |
The Bristol instrument and indeed Adrian Partington are at their most convincing when there is a constant flow of music, as in the fugal development to the sonata's finale. |
At the premiere Handel gave an organ extemporisation on the fugal subject taken up by the choir. |
In the second movement, for example, it appears pretty much as itself, while in the trio of the scherzo third, Antheil transforms it into a fugal subject. |