Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 - III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

i can't remember the last time i actually updated this thing on consecutive days :( ok, here is some dvorak. the reason i am not updating well these days is because i am having an audition this weekend that has sort of been taking precedence. this post covers the movement that i would conduct in the third round, assuming i made it that far.

since everyone basically already knows this symphony probably, i'll just post some interesting recordings and comment on the form (a standard ternary form). this movement is your standard scherzo, basically: ternary form, ABA.
the A part, the scherzo itself, is itself a rounded binary form: a skittering first theme firmly in e minor, which builds upon itself into something that includes the entire orchestra. it cadences in the original key, then slows down a bit into a poco sostenuto, and we get a second theme in e major, which is more lilting, the other side of the classic dvorak coin. this is played by all the winds, and finally the celli at the end. then theme a comes back for a repeat, rounding off the binary first half.
the trio is heralded by a creepy little arpeggio begun in the celli and continued (after some interjections by the winds) by the violas. then the violins take over a tail end of that arpeggio and raise an a-flat into an a, segueing gracefully into a dancelike c-major section which itself is also a rounded binary (in which the first half, a series of dotted wind chords above the violin arpeggios, comes back after the second trio theme, which is a series of rapid plays on the interval of the sixth). then a bridge section leads us back to the top and we repeat the scherzo.
the second time through we skip to the coda, which holds suspense by emphasizing unstable tremolo chords in the strings starting with a weird C7. horn and wind solos play on the main motif of eighth-eighth-quarter quarter quarter, and then the strings take a half step up, giving us a Db major chord. then one more step up: D major, which morphs into f-sharp minor (one note difference), B-Major, and a cadence in E major, during which the trumpet recalls the main theme from the first movement. the triumph rapidly decays into E minor, though, which is the end of that.
ahem, if you can't tell, i'm studying a lot of vocab terms. see my other blob for what else i've been studying.
here's celibidache. so slow. but i'm using this as inspiration, hope i have the guts to not rush like this this weekend.