Yet in its final page, its conflicts are resolved in a descending cello line and a high, rippling piano figure.
Its tandem violin and cello lines create a kind of otherworldly stasis.
In the cello line, there is some lyricism, but only in brief patches amid pages of struggle.
Miss Jeanrenaud brought a sense of urgency and a fine tone to the soloistic cello line.
The work opens in a fit, with a grumpy, skittish cello line and some crash-bang piano chords.
Those qualities were offset by Sharon Robinson's contrastingly passionate rendering of the cello line.
One thing all three works showed was Shostakovich's apparent fondness for rich, often throaty viola and cello lines.
Ingrid's distress, similarly, is expressed in a lugubrious cello line.
Susan Sheppard supplied an athletic cello line to one of the arias in the Bach cantata.
The gestures of the cello line often seem like those of an actor: they describe both attitude and action.