Introspective, mournful passages meshed into frantic fiddling in the evocative work, which received its premiere here.
The tributes to the Fair Islanders' own traditions in the form of brilliantly worked cadenzas were delivered by the Goulds with a panache that was the perfect foil for the deep sensitivity of the more mournful passages.
A plaintive passage took on a mournful Middle Eastern cast.
Marked "mesto" ("mournful"), the passage also prefaces the caustic Marcia and the grotesque Burletta, and serves as the germ of the poignant finale.
For one of the last numbers Abby brought out a saw, which had been a newer pursuit, and played a series of wavering, mournful-sounding passages, as Chris accompanied her with a skeletal melody.
Her Dodgson is a lonely, thwarted stutterer, hung up on rules and regulations, mournful about the passage of time.
This band has spent the last decade perfecting a heavily digressive approach, incorporating the growl and crunch of death-metal alongside the wispy atmospherics of black-metal; saw-toothed guitar riffs melt into mournful acoustic guitar passages.
One hears fleeting allusions to the growing militarism of the time, and mournful or perhaps questioning passages give way to defiantly assertive ones.
Underpinning everything were the striking lighting designs, by Shechter and Jim French, and Shechter's spare musical score, which mixed atmospheric sounds — distant explosions, hammering, churning machinery — with passages of mournful strings.
Some conduct these scores as if they had answers, aggressively pointing out the witty passages or exaggerating mournful ones.
In the Shostakovich, the players were able to pack as solid an emotional punch in the hushed, icy passages and delicate, mournful dances as in the high-speed fortissimo writing.
