In pianissimo passages for the piano Mr. Paik's sensitive playing emerged in a blur.

Audiences don't realize that a musician up there hears everything, especially during pianissimo passages.

But just before the final page, in pianissimo passages, too easy to miss, Beethoven inverts the rhythm of his theme.

There is also a pianissimo passage for the strings which anticipates the passacaglia from the Eighth Symphony.

But her sound was clear and alluring overall, and her phrasing long-lined and regal, especially in the difficult pianissimo passages.

Mahler has seldom been heard quieter than in pianissimo passages here, suspended by a mere thread of sound.

Other moments tended to get lost; the pianissimo passages had little sense of portent.

Despite a lovely pianissimo passage here and there, his basic sonority often seemed clangorous, his touch uneven.

She drove as if she was guiding the Berlin Philharmonic through pianissimo passages of Ravel.

The most difficult moments - one remembers especially the pianissimo passages of the second movement - were wholly poised.