 It is extraordinary in its scope, the range of its reference to historic events, and the musical influences absorbed.The work includes a sonata form first section, a suite of dances (incorporating a sarabande, jig, minuet, gavotte and polonaise), a transcription of a Scottish bagpipe Pibroch, a section entitled "To Emergent Africa" involving percussive effects directly on the piano strings, a section resonating to Lenin's slogan 'Peace, Bread and the Land'.The penultimate section is a huge triple fugue over the ground bass, the first fugue on a 12-note subject derived from the bass, the second combines the DSCH motif with the BACH motif (B-flat, A, C, B), and the third, on the "Dies Irae" chant, is inscribed "In memoriam the six million" (a reference to the victims of the Holocaust of World War II).