"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46) These startling, profoundly disturbing words are delivered with extraordinary poignancy in a tellingly brief finale, which literally disintegrates as "forsaken me" is stated in the lowest register of the cello. Thus, the Trio ends on a note of almost ineffable despair that could not contrast more with the luminous vision of the first movement and the chthonic contradictions of the second.