0:00-1:10 Establishing the long breath

• The piece opens out of silence with a single held violin tone; by around 0:10 a slow climbing melody is underway with lower strings beneath it.
• A first phrase crests and settles near 0:32; a second statement begins around 1:04 in a slightly higher register. The working method is set — one long line, restated rather than developed quickly.

1:14-4:53 Building by restatement

• Successive phrase cycles swell fuller and recede: crests near 1:37 and 2:42, the low strings broadening the sound around 2:52, a new searching line rising about 3:25.
• The first full-ensemble peak arrives near 3:57 — the fullest arrival so far — then recedes rather than concludes. The repetition is the ascent; each return of the phrase carries more than the last.

4:54-7:04 Crest, greater crest, stop

• The earlier peak's energy releases around 4:54 into a brief pause, after which the performance's longest continuous build runs from 5:02 to 6:56.
• That arrival breaks off into the deepest interruption of the whole recording: near-total silence at 7:00, a genuine reset rather than a phrase breath.

7:05-9:03 Return and final climb

• Out of the silence the music restarts quietly, a climbing line over sustained lower harmony — the opening's manner returning at reduced scale.
• The same long ascent is made again, compressed: swells gather from 7:40 and 8:48, rising to the final crest just past 9:00.

9:04-9:54 Dissolve

• The last crest releases around 9:04 into a short pause; what remains separates into brief, fainter statements, the gaps between them widening from about 9:16 onward.
• The final resonance fades to silence near 9:47, and the recording closes in that stillness.