Ternary form, E major. After a brief piano introduction, the cello and viola begin to sing a gentle melody. It is noteworthy that the violin, with its brilliant sound, is deliberately rested, and instead, the main melody is given to the cello's high register. This creates a warm, mellow, and somewhat melancholic sound. Following the main section (a-a-b-a'), which evokes an operatic cavatina, the piano solo plays improvisatory figures with small note values in the B major middle section. Upon returning to the main section, these figures reappear as varied obbligato. Even in the second main section, low-register instruments remain the core of the orchestral texture, but the piano's right hand, responding to them, concentrates on the high register, allowing the soloist's obbligato to be heard with clarity. The rich-sounding low string melody, the freshness of the piano's high register, and the sense of perspective created by their combination are truly magnificent. It is also very interesting that E minor, a sharp key, is given to this second movement, in contrast to the flat-key tonic (G minor). By choosing a distantly related key, the presence of a world detached from reality, somewhere else, might be implied here.