The second-movement Andante scherzando had a lovely buoyancy. Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2021 Parameswaran was in impressive command of the score, especially in the second movement, a scherzando dance with uneven meters and tricky cross-rhythms.cleveland.com, 20 Aug. 2019
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Italian, from verbal of scherzare to joke, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle High German scherzen to leap for joy, joke; perhaps akin to Greek skairein to gambol