The Winds, by Beethoven

i find remarkable about this section is that, despite how open it is in its feeling, it still uses an extremely small range of notes. In the clarinets and bassoons, those relentless triplets from the low string accompaniment, they are now in the violins, gently meandering along. It's like the world we have entered to in this movement is somehow narrower, more limited in scope - especially considering the wild excesses of the first movement. And as if to bring us back to reality, beethoven hammers home a scale. With a merciless repetition of ease, there are those eas again, we return back to the main theme.