Structure
- Andante
- This simple song-like movement contains a central dialogue between cello solo and piano which, according to writer Eric Blom, "enhance the effect of a tune at the very moment when its repetition might possibly become tiresome—in this case at the return of the main theme."
- Finale. Allegro maestoso
- This quasi-martial 'allegro maestoso' has energy in abundance—indeed, over-abundance, Blom writes—"but no real vitality of invention. The material is dry and dead, nor does the extremely busy and strenuously athletic piano part give any real life to it. There is plenty of bustle and very little enterprise."
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