Word: spiccato
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...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 movement. But Levine successfully led the orchestra in a crowd-pleasing, toe-tapping performance of the symphony’s last movement.In a dramatic shift...
...Harrell’s performance was mostly characterized by the dreamlike quality of nebulous sound, sometimes so soft that listeners had to strain their ears to hear the pitch, his virtuosity was not dampened by his sensitivity to touch and tone in the lyrical sections. Every note in the spiccato passages of later movements was clearly articulated, and difficult ascending scales and slides were timed to perfection...
...close acquaintances. The theme without a theme—the “Enigma” is never revealed—floated lightly over an airy sound in the strings. Hangen led the listener on a tour of the personalities of the variations, whether in the quirky spiccato passages of the violins or the dance-like slurs of the winds. The lovely muted sounds of the ninth variation, “Nimrod,” created an especially noble effect as the main theme was, for the first time, drawn out in a long line sustained by swells of sound...
...terms of the piece itself, the Largo was particularly well-played, with the winds, brass, and strings producing a wonderful coherence; the cellos carried off the honors, with strong full tones that exploited the piece’s melodic qualities. The ending movement, Allegro con spirito, displayed excellent spiccato work by all of the ensemble and furnished the piece with a truly robust finish...