The Khans played two extended ragas, in which the surbahar shone during the slower opening sections and the sitar, with its higher range and sharper tone, moved into the foreground for the faster finales.
Instead of the conventional movement layout — fast, slow, a minuet and a fast finale — this one begins with an Adagio, followed by a Presto; the final two movements are in the conventional order.
Remember in symphonies we usually have fast, slow, scherzo, fast, finale.
Shortly thereafter, the minuet, borrowed from the dance suite, was inserted with increasing frequency as a fourth movement between the slow movement and the fast finale.
An invigorating first movement predominates, followed by a light cantabile movement and a fast finale or minuet (minuets in his symphonies date mostly after 1767).
But it meanders, and by the middle of each movement (except the fast finale) it seemed that its principal saving grace was that it offered an opportunity to hear Mr. Rostropovich make the cello line sing.
It is 40 52 minutes long and is composed of 4 movements (in the tempi allegro (fast), slow, scherzo (fast), finale (fast)) like a classical Western symphony but uses an Indian raga as the mode for each movement: I. Allegro (Kafi Zila) 9 21 minutes, II.
In the new three-movement pattern, a minuet sometimes replaced the fast, abstract finale.
I knew it would be a fast final few kilometres and a technical finale, which is what I enjoy.
"Un Reflet Dans le Vent," from the former set, and "Le Baiser de l'Enfant-Jesus," from the latter, gave her fast, brilliant finales to the two halves of a program that had been predominantly andante, though in both these pieces she did everything to avoid vehemence and grand dash.
