perdendosi

The Italian musical term “perdendosi” is typically translated in English as “dying away.” The word usually accompanies music that is soft and delicate, often occurring at the end of a passage or an entire piece that fades slowly into nothing. It therefore may seem odd to use the term as a title for as loud, virtuosic, and relentless a showpiece as this one, but a more literal translation of the original Italian is closer to something like “getting lost” or “losing sight of something” or even “losing oneself,” and those to me feel entirely appropriate as descriptions of this music.