The music for his three vocal soloists matches "The Creation" in lyrical impulse and imagination.

But it is overwhelmingly driven, as usual with his music, by the lyrical impulse of its vocal lines.

The orgy scene is musically very powerful; elsewhere the lyrical impulse seems often inhibited.

Traces of Wagner and Mahler shine through, but mixed with the work's lyrical, Romantic impulse is a drive toward modern asperity.

It was in this slow movement that conducting skill showed so clearly: the lyrical impulse made prominent but the underlying dance rhythm never forgotten.

The clarinet line opens up the movement to a more lyrical impulse, but the clicking motif also develops on its own.

He begins each movement with a bleak patch of academic angularity and then gradually reveals a truly lyrical and sometimes arch-Romantic impulse.

Ms. Gideon's music was often lean in texture but driven by a lyrical impulse and an intensity that clarified the texts she set.

The lyrical impulses are of excellent manufacture but they no longer spring as if from nowhere.

Beneath that surface, though, there is a lyrical impulse that occasionally seizes the spotlight, particularly in the dark, meditative closing movement.