Scherzo Film Music Cue [1'30"]

‘Fleeing the Burning of Billingsgate Manor’ is a quickly moving 6/8 scherzo that emphasizes hurried motion in the strings as the backdrop for a dazzling flute solo, complete with flourishes and brilliante passagework that make the opening of this movement an ear-catching sensation. Tschaikovskian runs from low woodwinds to high flute give an orchestrational brilliance over bouncing string figures and scale-wise runs in the basses that flurry and fury to the minor mode’s sense of urgency. The piece culminates in tutti-scored builds and brass pyramids until the piece climaxes and quickly quiets to a second flute solo in a grand flash of rapid scales and pizzicato strings, giving the movement’s form have a sense of well-rounded evenness.