bleakness
blanch
no-brainer
conviction
sound like they are composing on the spot, channeling DSCH from the grave.
"intensity of purpose and musical logic" hits it right on the nose in describing the T concerto.
smear notes
plumming
quibble
brittle
immaculately played
limpy or wooden-legged
aristocratic elan of Stern, the burnished tone and slavic overtones of Perlman, the ringing line of heifetz or the steely granite of Oistrakh
leash
finesse
burlesca movements which he always wrote so well
immolation
tubby
botch