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. It contains a fascinating blend of passages of soaring tenderness, of full-sounding, blooming warmth, and ecstatic passages of radiant solemnity.
F ollowing the trio, the scherzo is repeated in unchanged form.
All rights reserved. Another reviewer thought the performance so perfunctory that he surmised Scherchen must have been ill. I rather like it, but I find it less inspired and compelling than Scherchen s recordings of the Second, Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth Symphonies. Thematic Development 2. Symphony No. 7, III, IV 4.