1.   The elegiac slow movement exploiting the dark colours of the violas and the lower strings was the most moving and memorable music in the work.

2.   Although there were fleeting moments of engaging interplay between the lower strings, the performance was strangely dispiriting.

3.   Birds twitter above flowing lines in the lower strings.

4.   It begins with a rumbling repetitive motive in the lower strings, which is taken up by the piano.

5.   The lower strings were especially eloquent, the brass sections models of well-tuned ensemble.

6.   Finckel, cellist with the Emerson Quartet, had the three lower strings play without Filip to help establish the pulse.