The alternating between higher and lower playing strings in the carrying on of the tremolo figures is magical, mesmerizing. The music opens up to brightness again in lucid playing of strings and woodwinds, setting the stage for radiant trumpets to enter, which brightens the music even further. The whole passage from the beginning of the mvmt. During all that, the theme is treated very freely in its metamorphosis through the various instrumental sections, and will continue to be treated freely throughout the mvmt. Now the music further moves in waves unfolded by the interplay of various brass sections, an interplay constantly shaped by interactions with string and woodwind sections.
Bright trumpets play a prominent role in the music which finally moves towards a climax.
This passage is brought to a halt in broad sounding strings, and broad, warm-sounding strings, woodwinds and horns continue the music. But then the same horn calls that started the mvmt. come to an aid in trying to wake up the music again, and first the woodwind figures, then excited string pizzicati, always surrounded by those horn calls, lead to a re-beginning of the original music of the scherzo. The music of the first two minutes now is rebuilt in very similar form. The final climax, however, is even more full-sounding and majestical. T he trio belongs to the most organically flowing music ever written, and also to the most beautiful music I know.