pizzicatos

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.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra – review 2011

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.

In performance: Peled for free 2010

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.

In performance: Del Sol Quartet 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.

Archive 2009-03-01 sfmike 2009

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.

New Century Chamber Orchestra Goes Russian 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.

Archive 2008-11-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008

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.

Double Header Lisa Hirsch 2008

Paganini's pizzicatos or Catalani's clamorous caterwaulings.

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

There were intriguing timbres, but this section seemed overlong, and the pizzicatos outstayed their welcome.

NYT > Home Page 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.

NYT > Home Page By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER 2011