When are you going to stop calling people who want technical proficiency in fioritura "purists"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Go Get Him] Reference

These structural noises were the only ones that counted; they were the polyphony of the Bridge, everything else was decorative and to be ignored by the Bridge operator-the fioritura shrieking of the winds, the battery of the rain, the pedal diapason of thunder, the distant grumbling roll of the stage-hand volcanoes pushing continents back and forth on castors down below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities In Flight]

The expressive passages carry as much delectable savoir faire as the fioritura escapades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Primakov relishes the long arches of brilliant fioritura and chromatic modulations that pepper the work with an ambiance that prefigures Beethoven and the Romantics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

G Major Concerto for a quick allusion -- and a launching site for exquisite fioritura from the keyboard dazzles both the mind and heart for its innate simplicity of means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Concerto for 2 Pianos (5-6 June 1957), arranged from a concerto for three klaviers, communicates a frothy afternoon's serenade character, with glitter and fioritura to spare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The Romanian soprano was at her best, sounding sublime in Donizetti's fioritura - flowery vocal embellishments she tossed off with technical ease and a clear, sumptuous timbre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories] Reference

The G Major finale certainly harkens to Carl Maria von Weber's "konzertstueck" pieces, all brilliant and explosive fioritura and pomposo heraldry, but rather light on musical content.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Several thoughtful ritards inform this rendition, whose declamatory-parlando episodes convey as rich a tapestry as the brilliant fioritura that owes its vocal, even chime-like quality to the influence of Bellini's operas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference