1.   As the chorus sings of the plague of frogs, for example, the strings play a leaping figure.

2.   But the Vienna strings played too beautifully.

3.   In the vacuous C major of the opening, he had his strings play grandly, with strong bowing and much vibrato, and the effect was grand.

4.   Strings play gentle ostinatos, tremolos and wavy, measured trills.

5.   The strings play with a lushness that suggests the charms of a springtime voyage in the opening movement and the fervency of prayer in the finale.

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

7.   String was playing for Chris Warren, who went out with a hip injury.