Hi Tom
As mentioned your new Irish Concerto is delightfully charming. Although it is in sonata form by fingering of the keyboard, it is an Irish Concerto. And should end at 6.25.Of-course.. Transferring to VSL virtual sequencing should help clarify any further analysis. Especially at recapitulations. The tempo will retard at those points and add the feeling that it has towards its definition... As a painting or wine instills, or ferment within time. Sit on it for a while and keep adding those piano brakes in between. the one in the middle adds to it tremendously and welcomes more of the same through-out. As a painting tired's a mind or as you call it explodes the brain after the first initial diligent structuring, or a day's work, give it a week or so, and as a painting walk by it after a while and you will see new additions that can be added to it, that couldn't be seen before, because of exhaustion and fatigue. They will pop out at you. Time and time again. And because you already have structured it. What will be added should be by ear only and simple enough to create. Similar to highlights in paintings for instance or a comletely new approach as you have shown you can do. And as already mentioned you can take the A part and replay it back down further in the composition. Coda or develop more motifs in tandems to further build the Concerto... I believe you're making a traditional Irish milestone statement here that can live on... Give it more time and pull its complete score, separate instruments and full concert score. So that your grandkids can refer back to it in the future for reference and have it played publicly, if not earlier...
I've been trying to get my second movement started now for month's, just not gotten there yet. And the sheer physical and mental ability is a full time job to bring up to par. Then the rest afterwards, one is never sure, what will be, or happen next?
Brahms took ten years to complete his first symphony -- And he didn't even know how to VSL
Rachmaninoff took three years to rest from his first symphony. Didn't touch the piano.-- And he didn't know how to VSL either.
We might have more on our hands to work with, but on the other side of the coin. We also have an orchestra that plays at our command as many times as we wish, at any time at a drop of a hat. This is luxury. You maniac slave drivers. just hit play and see how it sounds !
Cheers