pizzicati

The piece was Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem "Manfred," a four-movement tone poem that goes through a panoply of 19th-century vignettes, including a second movement that sounds like Tchaikovsky's version of Mendelssohn at his most sprightly, with sequences of what Thursday were awfully metallic-sounding pizzicati.

Conductor Gianandrea Noseda's NSO debut: A mixed performance Anne Midgette 2011

Enchanted Preludes, for example, composed in 1988: As the flute (Brook Ferguson, in this performance) spins out her darting, bubbling line, the cello (David Gerstein) tries to join in with his best flute imitation, all tremolos and harmonics and sharp-tongued pizzicati.

Magna Carter (4): Identity Politics Matthew Guerrieri 2008

In Figment I for solo cello (played with caution-to-the-wind zeal by Kathryn Bates), flurries of scattered impressions alternate with a legato line, and the interjections — violent, crescendo single bows, percussively struck pizzicati — put the physicality of playing the instrument in debate with the melodic musical content.

Magna Carter (4): Identity Politics Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Enchanted Preludes, for example, composed in 1988: As the flute (Brook Ferguson, in this performance) spins out her darting, bubbling line, the cello (David Gerstein) tries to join in with his best flute imitation, all tremolos and harmonics and sharp-tongued pizzicati.

Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

In Figment I for solo cello (played with caution-to-the-wind zeal by Kathryn Bates), flurries of scattered impressions alternate with a legato line, and the interjections — violent, crescendo single bows, percussively struck pizzicati — put the physicality of playing the instrument in debate with the melodic musical content.

Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Closer it drew and now there came to me sweet, insistent tinklings — like pizzicati on violins of glass; crystal clear; diamonds melting into sounds!

The Moon Pool 2004

Nearer, nearer — a music as of myriads of tiny crystal bells, tinkling, tinkling — a storm of pizzicati upon violins of glass!

The Moon Pool 2004

Through its crystal pizzicati drifted inarticulate murmurings — deadly sweet, stilling the heart and setting it leaping madly.

The Moon Pool 2004

She sat down with that false air in front of the piano, and then began the usual preliminaries, — the pizzicati of the violin and the arrangement of the scores.

The Kreutzer Sonata 2003

Through its crystal pizzicati drifted inarticulate murmurings -- deadly sweet, stilling the heart and setting it leaping madly.

The Moon Pool 1919