 Mendelssohn's presence is strong in "Winter Daydreams", with a grace, lightness and pace throughout.The scherzo especially could have stepped from "A Midsummer Night's Dream".Both the symphony's subtitle and those of the first two movements—"Dreams of a Winter Journey" and "Land of Desolation, Land of Mists"—betray a possible fondness of Mendelssohn's ability to express in symphonic form a personal experience arising out of emotion at a romantic landscape, though Tchaikovsky did not carry through this idea to the end (the latter two movements lack subtitles).