The string writing is wiry and Stravinskian, but often graceful.

That's what I hear in the chromatic string writing and wind writing.

It was full of handsome and darkly expressive string writing.

The second variation features a dialogue between wind & brass fanfares with simple string writing.

Thus the string writing is mainly in ten different parts, on ten separate staves.

They are, in any case, offset by stretches of reflective, lyrical string writing.

His Romanticism can be heard in long-lined and often plangent string writing.

The composer is an excellent workman and especially proficient at string writing.

The second movement, in particular, offers some lovely, emotionally involving string writing.

I was genuinely surprised by how idiomatic the string writing was.