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• Format: HiFi Sound, Surround Sound
• Language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: n/a
• DVD Release Date: September 12, 2010
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003FLHB9Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #233,444 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Tchaikovsky's the Fifth is a cyclical symphony, with a recurring main theme. The theme is heard in all four movements, a feature Tchaikovsky had first used in the Manfred Symphony, which was completed less than two years before the Fifth. The theme itself is derived from a passage in Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar significantly, a passage using the words 'turn not into sorrow'. The theme has a funereal character in the first movement, but gradually transforms into a triumphant march, which dominates the final movement. Tchaikovsky was attracted to this particular theme because the topic of the Fifth Symphony is Providence. The changing character of the motto over the course of the symphony seems to imply that Tchaikovsky is expressing optimism with regard to providence, an outlook that would not return in his Sixth Symphony.
The 5th symphony was used in 1933 by the Russian-born choreographer Léonide Massine for his - and the world's - first symphonic ballet, Les Présages. This caused a furore amongst musical purists, who objected to a serious symphonic work being used as the basis of a ballet. Various passages from this symphony were used in the 1937 motion picture Maytime, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The music appears not only in some of the background score, but also in the form of a sung pastiche invented by Herbert Stothart as a fictitious French opera entitled Czaritsa, composed by the character Trentini for the lead soprano (MacDonald).

The Symphony is in four movements:
1. Andante Allegro con anima
2. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza
3. Valse: Allegro moderato 4. Andante maestoso Allegro vivace

The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique, Op. 74 is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony, written between February and the end of August 1893. The composer led the first performance in Saint Petersburg on October 28 of that year, nine days before his death. The second theme of the first movement formed the basis of a popular song in the 1940s, (This is) The Story of a Starry Night (by Mann Curtis, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston) which was popularized by Glenn Miller. This same theme is the music behind 'Where' a 1959 hit for Tony Williams and the Platters as well as 'In Time' by Steve Lawrence in 1961. All three of these songs have completely different lyrics.
British progressive rock band The Nice covered Symphony No. 6 on their album Five Bridges. Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony has proved a popular choice with filmmakers, with extracts featuring in (amongst others) Now, Voyager, the 1997 version of Anna Karenina, Minority Report, Soylent Green and The Aviator.

The symphony contains four movements:

1. Adagio Allegro non troppo - Andante - Moderato Mosso - Andante - Moderato assai - Allegro vivo - Andante come prima - Andante mosso
2. Allegro con grazia
3. Allegro molto vivace
4. Finale: Adagio lamentoso --Surround Records

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Music for people who don't know or like classical music, May 3, 2011

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J. Schofield "Music Man" (Cirque Du Soleil) - See all my reviews
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What a bunch of hype these Jero discs are. I had a chance to listen to one at a friend's house and was much underwhelmed. The orchestral playing was not top notch, as some of the uninformed on this site have said. They must be deaf or the kind of people who are impressed easily or like elevator music. To even compare the "international orchestra" or whatever they are called to the Vienna Phil, Berlin Phil, and Chicago Phil is to reveal a lack of music education and understanding. I'm an orchestral music by education (Masters in Music, percussion), training and profession. When my friends in some very prominent orchestras heard this recording, well they just laughed at all the hoopla over nothing. 7.1 sound? Since when does sound emanate from the rear (excepting Berlioz's Requiem or Mahler's 8th) like there are musicians playing there? Have any of the positive reviewers ever BEEN in a concert hall? I think not. In reality, there is very little, radiated out-of-phase sound coming from behind and the sides. This and the abundance of idiotic reviews in broken or exaggerated English seem like some marketing scam to sell a product. It reminds me of the quote "don't throw pearls before the swine" because they won't appreciate true greatness if they think this is great. Save your money for real, stereo highly respected performances by major orchestras where those musicians in the classical performance and review community can agree on. Read reviews in Gramophone, Classical Musician or other well-respected publications to learn about legacy performances of this work. Or join those uninformed who praise this kind of huckstering of mediocrity and blow your money. Like Salieri said in the movie Amadeus, "Mediocrities!"

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a ripoff, June 4, 2011

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Ronnie - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Experimental Blu-ray Community Project (Blu-ray)

This item appears to have been produced on a home PC. This is a remix from some other source and is a terrible redub. It will not play on one of my blu-ray players and frequently drops out on my other one