Vigorous strings evoke Vivaldi at the Cielo (cielocondos.com) on the Upper East Side.
The pair bring a serenity to Nell Catchpole's vigorous strings on Persis and subtly leaven Laurie Anderson's booming voice on Like Pictures Part £2, while children's voices bring welcome humanity to Bloom.
With its solid brass choirs and vigorous, dramatic string writing, it sounds powerful and cohesive, not hastily cobbled together.
Listeners could quibble about Mr. McAdams's decision to have the trumpet calls played onstage rather than off, but this was an electrifying reading, and the vigorous, magnificently polished string playing in the final section of the score made any such reservations seem beside the point.
Finally, the scrim fell to the floor and the electronic sounds gave way to recordings of vigorous music for strings by the French Baroque composer Marin Marais, including his variations on "La Folia," a sturdy theme popular throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
| Jan . 10at 8 and Jan . 11at 3: Two seasoned colleagues — the violinist Mark Peskanov and the cellist Clive Greensmith (of the Tokyo String Quartet) join the exciting Shanghai Quartet for what will be vigorous performances of the string sextets of Johannes Brahms.
Ms. Liu, who initially made her reputation in the West as a singer in jazz and rock bands, ranged from brusque, chanting voices and vigorous percussion to swirling string melodies and angular dance rhythms in "In-Corporeal I".
Christie's Post War and Contemporary Evening Sale followed on Tuesday, November 10, opening with vigorous bidding for a string of mobiles by Alexander Calder and a couple of sculptures by David Smith, all quickly exceeding their high estimates.
But the second movement brought in the harpsichord sounding bright and brash and engaging in some vigorous dialogue with the strings.
Mr. McMillen's sharp-edged, cluster-driven pianism was also a driving force in "Almost-Truths and Open Deceptions" (2007), a fresh, vigorous chamber work for strings, percussion and piano in which shifting (and sometimes pounding) rhythms and intricate interplay create the feeling of a rock-influenced dance suite.
