Winter Wind (Chopin): Meandering Back to F₄

After the descending chromatic line from F₄, the melody eventually leads us back to the starting position. We keep running in sixteenth tuplets and the alternating pattern from the previous line continues: uneven-numbered notes dominate the melody, whereas even-numbered notes give the harmonic context. At least this is what it feels like to me. If I hum the melody, I instinctively simplify the opening descending line to a chromatic scale and the following part to second intervals repeated in three octaves.

First we have the intervals e-d and d-c. Note the slight deviations in the second measure (f becomes e, b leads up to the next line).

Then the intervals a-g♯ and g♯-f♯, ending in e, which leads back to the initial f of the chromatic line.

As in the first part, a bit of wrist rotation helps maintaining the rhythm while keeping the hand relaxed.