bpopw750: Oh man! Totally forgot about this! I know that I PMed you, but heck, forgot to make it public!
The "purpose", is the last few seconds, the last page. Somehow the timing of that theme (which appears 4 times) reaches the timing of the 4 different "movements" thus at last it can be Edeveloped" "properly" (for one single page) and then end the piece, with something which does appear new and was not used t othe developement of the score at all!
The theme first appears in bar 9, by the French Horn, then bar 27, F Hrn again, I have no idea where the 3rd instance is
and the 4th is the last page, which is (at least) slighly orchestrated.
So the whole purpose of this piece is to make these 2 parts (theme and movements) find their way together...
Hope it makes a bit of sense...
Nicola: Since you explained your opinion very well, it certainly is your place.
No worries man! Public means public. I wouldn't like someone coming and mentioning "it sucks" and nothing else, ala myspace, or deviant, but you took your time to listen, to read, and to post, so I'm thankful.
I will agree really really really with you. It is exactly that. For the first movement. It's slow, it's dead boring for me (nothing happening pretty much). When the fast part enteres, there is indeed a theme, and a countertheme, and a stretto later on... there is definately something going on there. And from there on there is melodic movement as well.
so it's a very unbalanced piece with 2/3rds of the piece being dead boring and undeveloped and the rest trying to give a bit of excuse of the first 2/3rds! Don't think it succeeds, but anyhow it was writen quite a few years ago, so it's ok I guess. My excuse!