Page 193 - PDF Flip TR Program Demo

chords—punishing in volume, ominous in rhythm, even as the harmonies are sweet. The opening melody returns as an ending refrain.
The finale, Precipitato (hurried), is brief, with jazzy syncopa- tions popping out of frantic textures. The movement builds to cacophony, before a final run arrives at pure and decisive B-flat.
Richter offered his own impression of the work:
We are brutally plunged into the anxiously threatening atmosphere of a world that has lost its
balance. Chaos and uncertainty reign. We see murderous forces ahead. But this does not mean that what we lived by before thereby ceases to exist. We continue to feel and love. Now the full range of human emotions bursts forth. Together with our fellow men and women, we raise a voice in protest and share the common grief. We sweep everything before us, borne along by the will
of victory. In the tremendous struggle that this involves, we find the strength to affirm the irrepressible life-force.
2018 Summer Season 193