The flutes sink into a dreamy melody, soon to be joined by the oboes and tremolando strings, the melody gyrating somnabulistically and evanescing pp after eight bars.
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums.
The part calls for a solo violin, two oboes, two flutes, one English horn, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, horn, percussion, two harps and strings.