The second movement especially displays a great emotional range, from the misery of the funeral march theme, to the relative solace of happier, major-key episodes. In earlier symphonies, the finale was a quick and breezy conclusion; here, the finale is a lengthy set of variations and fugue on a theme from Beethoven’s music for the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus (1801). Symphony No. Merle J. Isaac, By Nicolai Ippolitov-Ivanov / arr. document.write('
