One: I did not make this picture! I found it on icanhascheezburger.com .
Two: The computer playback doesn't always reproduce dynamics accurately, especially crescendos and diminuendos. Please bear that in mind.
Now, with that out of the way, I can introduce this piece:

I wrote this back in the autumn of 2008. The main theme used in this movement is a song from the Kolyma Yukaghir culture of eastern Siberia. It was created in the traditional style in the 1930s by Alexey Shalugin, who dedicated it to a girl he had met on the banks of the river Khorkhodon. The lyrics, about how he sees her before him wherever he goes, and how he misses being with her, are fitted strophically to the melody, which stays the same throughout (The lyrics, both in the original Kolyma Yukaghir and in English, along with a recording, can be accessed at [link] )

The melody is more or less as a transcription from the recording, save for the middle section, which I composed for contrast. The accompaniment is also my own; it is somewhat of an experiment with tone clusters and chordal extensions using notes of the same scale.
More important are the dynamics, which are entirely my own. The swells in the first section are of the river lapping at the banks, rising and falling with the current: they could also be considered as an extremely slow heartbeat. The middle section continues in a similar rhythm, but the dynamic throb is gone, replaced by a crescendo which rises like a sob before collapsing, ushering in the desolate reprise. The echoes in the lower voices illustrate the last line of the poem, where he hears the girl singing back to him from far away.