It's a work of relentless pizzicatos and glaring brass that announces its tensions at the outset: a violin and viola chorale slowly fans out over pizzicato cellos and basses only to collide with gaunt fanfares that stop it in its tracks. ❋ Unknown (2011)
This was a program full of delicate sonic interplay, from the slow sliding portamentos and stinging pizzicatos of Pawel Szymanski's "Five Pieces" and the vocalizing that turned Chinary Ung's "Spiral X: In Memoriam" (for amplified string quartet) into an octet, to the subtle impressionistic colors of Philip Glass's Quartet No. 5. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At roughly one hundredth the cost of his 1689 Guarneri, his instrument, a 2010 Wolfgang Schnabl, produced a richly voluminous sound and stood up to vigorous pizzicatos and athletic downbows. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The orchestra was very "together," moving as a unit through the many mood swings, and the second movement pizzicatos were especially tight, and a real pleasure to hear. ❋ Sfmike (2009)
The sound of the orchestra in the first ten minutes of Part II will linger long in memory those pizzicatos, those harps, the winds, as will the glorious end of the piece. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2008)
Paganini's pizzicatos or Catalani's clamorous caterwaulings. ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)
There were intriguing timbres, but this section seemed overlong, and the pizzicatos outstayed their welcome. ❋ By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER (2011)
Here they offered Ms. Gubaidulina's single-movement Quartet No. 3 1987, a mélange of pizzicatos, strumming and unusual timbres that reflects her interest in Russian, Central Asian and East Asian folk instruments. ❋ By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER (2011)
And this is to say nothing of the supreme musicianship of Iyer's cohorts: Stefan Crump who is equally adept at bowing coloristic textures as he is with earthy pizzicatos and straight walking; and Marcus Gilmore who performs the most fluid swing and hip-hop patterns with unparalleled precision. ❋ Jonathan Goldman (2010)
That led to the ominous chord progression of the fourth, with its violent pizzicatos, and ended with a bouncing but caustic version of Russian folk music in the finale. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The pizzicatos that repeatedly rippled through cellos and basses were exquisite while the third movement's oboe theme was rustic but full of feeling. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It's built from a collection of differentiated ideas - neurotic tremolo passages, abrasive chords, nagging ostinatos, Bartókian pizzicatos - that are constantly reordered, and whose hectic course seems to reach its fulfilment in the strongly rhythmic passage just before the end, after which everything ebbs away in flurries of figuration. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The "Corsaro" excerpts consisted of Corrado's double aria - a slow cantabile section followed by a rousing martial cabaletta - Medora's Romanza exquisitely sung by Eleni Calenos, accompanied by Harp, Flute, oboe and Clarinet and finally the Medora-Corrado duet that closes Act I of the opera, complete with string pizzicatos and harp as well as heavy brass, pre-recorded canon shots and glorious high notes to close the first half of the program. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The only part that sounded close to being real were the pizzicatos … ❋ Gaenari33 (2008)
Just been discussing trills and pizzicatos with Lady Wray. " ❋ Frederic S. Isham (N/A)
[fuck off] [tk] girls, pizzicato 4 [life] ❋ Neketumeke (2021)
