It began mildly enough to the accompaniment of pizzicato strains from the orchestra--Psyche in her training quarters.

Among those is Pizzicato , who arrives from France and is a rare international raider for Fabrice Chappet, who has had just four runners in Britain since 2015.

When summoned back to the stage for his own encore, the soloist responded with a work of Paganini variations that served as a master class in precision bowing and pizzicato .

The second movement of the symphony, allegretto, was marked with section where piccolos and trumpets played a vivacious melody accompanied by the violins played with pizzicato .

Goran Nystrom and Phil Etheridge rebuild and re-spell Opal, with power chords and pizzicato strings riding the crests of crashing waves.

But it does have its moments - the pizzicato (plucked) passages at one point reminiscent of Spanish flamenco, and the elongated accompaniment by a solo horn, giving an account of engaging dual timbre.

An atonal cacophony of a second movement, a double-bass converted into a snare drum (through use of paper between the strings) in the third, musket-like snap pizzicato in the sixth, and shameless glissando in the last.

But it was the typically Brahmsian slow movement - harmonically ever evolving with fascinating orchestration: that strident horn call at the outset and some highly delicate pizzicato in the strings - which was made that much more interesting by the pulling around of the tempi.

The second movement employed ingenious pizzicato violin work against flute and piano melodies that clearly captivated the audience.

The six titles, in a variety of genres from authors around the world, are: The Hangmana[euro](tm)s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch; No Reserve: The Limit of Absolute Power by Martin Redrado; Old Town by Lin Zhe; Pizzicato : The Abduction of the Magic Violin by Rusalka Reh; Pepita Jimenez by Juan Valera; and Field Work in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko.

Georgina Eddison loves sounds-the eponymous pizzicato rain, clacking and clicking, tapping and ringing, melodies and curses, and casual conversations.