1.   The premise of her nocturnes is that they need to be performed with a beautiful sound and a flexible, unbroken line.

2.   THE Chinese musician Tan Dun likes to quote early Taoist poetry on the subject of silence -- the most beautiful sound in the world.

3.   And Alessandra Marc floods the role of Chrysothemis with beautiful soprano sound.

4.   And suddenly there was this throbbing throughout the bus, this beautiful sound with a rhythm.

5.   Another beautiful sound suggests an Islamic bowed instrument with sympathetic strings being sampled or imitated, though this section soon lapses musically into travel-feature banality.

6.   Beautiful sound just for the sake of it does not interest Dohnanyi.

7.   Bonus points for beautiful sound on an independent label.

8.   Alessandra Marc flooded the role of Chrysothemis with beautiful soprano sound.

9.   Happily, this is an orchestra that carries beautiful sound around in its suitcases.

10.   Guleghina sang with her customary vocal and dramatic intensity, sacrificing beautiful sound for dramatic impact.