| The orchestration is again brilliant, with particularly effective use of trumpets, pizzicato, string moto perpetuo, harp, and glockenspiel. |
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| The song was difficult to perform, with complicated pizzicato parts and arpeggios, requiring swift and flexible movements. |
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| I seem to remember that although I couldn't play a note on the violin with the bow, I wasn't too bad at pizzicato. |
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| In the violin version, he writes double stops, pizzicato and tremolo indications and so forth, keeping with the capabilities of the violin. |
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| The first movement's imitations came alive and the pizzicato second movement was coloured with delicate charm. |
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| There are sharp pizzicato accents everywhere, and once again, leave it to David Finckel to look like he is having the time of his life. |
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| Carter's pizzicato chording shadows Dolphys' statement of the melody before the leader lets rip with a solo crammed with trills, soulful cries and mercurial bop runs. |
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| This perpetual motion is punctuated by pizzicato strings, percussive whips, and brassy cluster chords. |
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| A section for pizzicato strings suspended over creepy melodic lines for piano and Celesta seemed to turn the orchestra into a giant, threatening insect. |
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| His playing is as imaginative and unpredictable as the source texts, flitting from bowed lyricism to mysterious pizzicato to downright scary scraping. |
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| Their willingness to instill the piece with spirit is the great strength of the performance, though it sometimes leads them to overpluck the pizzicato of the second movement. |
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| You could make out the highlights on all those crystalline tremolos and follow the curve of each dewdrop pizzicato. |
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| But soon after we arrive at the only fortissimo in the whole work, Debussy brings the piece to an end with an expeditious pizzicato. |
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| The oboe and pizzicato strings introduce the second theme, a gavotte with a distinctly modern, angular melody. |
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| In some of Bach's music the stringed instruments are played pizzicato, although this practice had already been employed by Monteverdi. |
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| Among his own best compositions are six sonatas for unaccompanied violin, containing novel chordal and pizzicato effects. |
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| He sounds great on both arco and pizzicato, and I'm sure the performance will be stunning. |
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| A passage in chords for the piano alone leads to the more expressive second subject, heard in the oboe with a pizzicato accompaniment. |
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| The exotic colours, pizzicato passages and Habanera rhythms confer a Spanish tone on this movement. |
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| Its strings can also be plucked with a finger, a technique known as pizzicato. |
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| Variation V is again for piano, with the violin contributing a pizzicato accompaniment to the graceful melody in the piano. |
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| The outer movements are both jazzy, with ostinati and motivic development in the first and brighter pizzicato textures and dance-like rhythms in the finale. |
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| Young has a distinctive sound, whether arco or pizzicato, and this comes to the fore in the soulful and passionate performances in his conversations with pianist Walton. |
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| For example, in the A-minor concerto, the contrasting use of pizzicato versus arco with the same thematic material is a happy surprise, guaranteed to raise a smile. |
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| Distant echoes of the principal theme dissipate into a web woven with stealthy pizzicato and gossamer piano staccato and trills. |
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| In the fourth movement the pizzicato sforzandos were very accurate, loud, and pleasing to hear, as was the high playing of the first violin in the Presto. |
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| Edward had never cared for classical music, but now he was learning its sprightly argot — legato, pizzicato, con brio. |
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| The second part is a Blues, played pizzicato. |
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| It starts with solo flute melody, muted pizzicato strings in accompaniment, repeated by the oboe and violoncellos, elaborated upon by both piano and orchestra. |
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| The serene melody of the second theme, exposed by the violins over pizzicato basses, has all the characteristics of a chorale, seeming to express that the soul has finally achieved peace. |
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| Monteverdi enlarged the orchestra and became one of the first composers to increase its dramatic range by having the strings use tremolo and pizzicato. |
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| Details of the vibrato in the initial pizzicato chords become audible. |
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| The full orchestra returns with the opening pizzicato motif, now romantically dressed up in opulent sounds, and the movement dies away to a quiet narrante reminiscence of the first theme in the piano. |
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| A work for strings alone, the Academy glided crisply through its musically diverse movements, from the bold pizzicato opening of the Adagio to a moving Funeral March. |
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| Compared to the Op. 1 trios, the string texture is far richer: sustained double-stops in the violin and exquisite pizzicato passages of a scope never before attempted in a trio. |
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| In the operas, and also in concert works, another characteristic Sullivan touch is his fondness for pizzicato passages for all the string sections. |
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| An atonal cacophony of a second movement, a double-bass converted into a snare drum in the third, musket-like snap pizzicato in the sixth, and shameless glissando in the last. |
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| Pizzicato is when violins, violas, or cellos are played without the bow by plucking the strings sharply. |
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| The idea of the inescapable miseries of fate is hammered home time and again in his Symphony No 4, with only the Pizzicato ostinato Scherzo thrown in for light relief. |
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