Few studies of form take into serious account texture, particularly textural changes across large spans of time. The present paper suggests that such changes can serve as an important form-building strategy, by exploring a special type of recapitulation -- one that is climactic and polyphonicized. A number of polyphonicized recapitulations from the works of Piotr Chaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff show that the technique was important for both composers. Movement 1 of Rachmaninoff's famous Second Piano Concerto is a unique representative of this technique: the recapitulation's polyphonicized opening is not only climactic, but also includes the telos theme -- the goal point of a teleological genesis, a process that takes up a large portion of the movement.