Word: passagework
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...fail to deliver on charm and grace, particularly in the third movement. Levine drew out long lines ascending a hearty scale in the minuet. The clarinet solo featured in trio section easily captured the sweet, dance-like feel of the symphony’s shortest movement.Yet the nimble passagework of the symphony’s finale was not characterized by the same clarity of the orchestra’s crisp trills and clean spiccato passages in the allegro section of the first movement. Some of the running notes in the woodwinds were swallowed in the playful dialogue of the virtuosic...