A scherzo breaks in, which culminates in a brass fanfare leading to the slow movement.
It also has the dimensions and structure of a symphony; with an assertive opening, slow movement, scherzo, and a summational and revelatory finale.
Six minutes into the work, as its mood grows darker, angrier, more dissonant, a skirling piccolo introduces a scherzo section.
The third movement - again following the expected plan - is scherzo-like, and is once again a dramatic departure from the preceding music.
And certain sections also have developmental qualities in the latter's analysis, such as the scherzo and part of the 'slow finale'.
Perhaps the most striking part of this memorably substantial work is the brilliantly fleet and ebulliently virtuoso scherzo.
The return of the scherzo is silenced rather as the first movement, with a single pizzicato chord.
This is followed by a sort of scherzo-without-a-trio, characterized by repeated-note patterns.