Reunited with the concertino group of marimba, harp and cimbalom, the violin now acquires an eerie, spectral quality as the preceding movements are revisited in a 'ritual of annihilation'.
It was a strange and eerie experience.
Too eerie to describe, it all seemed like the end of the world.
There is marvellous lyricism, pawky humour, eerie fantasy, all limned in a spare and vivid style of presentation that never wastes a note.
A murmur passes through the entourage; eerie blackness falls on the court.
While the lying-in-state became at points ungovernable, the funeral procession was marked by an almost eerie quiescence on the part of the crowds.
The movement is launched and driven by nervous energy, grippingly held in check during a tense central section that features solos of eerie foreboding.
The characters' valediction is accompanied by the orchestral restatement of the cabaletta's first theme, to which is added the eerie sound of a harp.
