The Music Lovers first "musical" sequence

[gtsvideodotcom]

Great, great sequence... I love the 'music video' format which might be how some artistic geniuses compose their thought. It's on netflix.

[ilajuhil7]

Beautiful! Is it really out on DVD now! So far I have not found it?

[SLPgoogle]

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 will be conducted at Tanglewood on August 6, 2011. This video features Ken Russell's wife as customer designer, and many of his children, as actors. The film cost about a million pounds when it was made. Although the film shows Tchaikovsky in a meeting with his benefactoress, they never did really meet! Fiction, but beautifully done.

[illaveyoubutler2]

...On Region 2 DVD next month.

[mimosa17]

sensational. It's high time the movie was released as a DVD. It's a moving, disturbing and spectacular film.

[BognarRegis]

It's a shame that Ken Russell's films have been neglected by the studios that released them. Almost all of them were misunderstood in their times and in some cases still are. I tend to rank Russell and Lang in the same category: too far ahead of their time. I just hope it doesn't take another fifty years before everyone else catches on.

[youfeda]

O mille Grazie!

[Volviert]

Best composer movie ever made. The use of music and picture is great, even better than Amadeus.

[BoydSturgis]

I admit - I'm uneducated about the great composers.

What is the name of this piece?

Thanks

[YumeHane]

The full title is "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23: Allegro non tropo e molto maestoso" (1st movement)

[ilkinond]

Actually what we hear in this clip is from the second movement of the 1st Piano Concerto.

[deadxkorps]

Can't anyone upload the film somewhere??

[charlusjackson]

He played it as a conductor; he wasn't able to the piano enough

[danielags16]

This is probably the most exciting piano concerto, ever! Gotta love Tchaikovsky..but I dont think he actually ever did play it in public. Anyway this scene is fantastic.

[charlusjackson]

He played it as a conductor; he wasn't able to the piano enough

[OxiDim]

Superb experience!

[almadora]

ken... are you out there? my wild androgynous twin are ready to make a movie with you.  please, touch me and we'll arrange something. ken, you are my father. i'll hold my breath until i hear from you.

[atoughlad]

Too bad he was a faggot

[chopin65]

Why too bad? What should it matter where he was sticking it? If you enjoy the music, you enjoy it. It's that simple. For example, I could care less who you sleep with.

[bradondo]

The art of Tchaikovsky plus the art of Ken Russell equals an unforgettable film. Russell is such an undervalued genius--only his most minor films are currently available on DVD! I had to pay an arm and a leg for "Salome's Last Dance" for instance because the DVD was available in stores for only about five minutes before the company pulled it (it turned out to be pan and scan) and "The Devils" DVD is a miserably out-of focus, color bleached bootleg--when will he get some respect?

[chopin65]

It digusts me too. This film is a treasure. Ken is an orignal explorer of the human heart. It is a great shame that this is out of print.

[bootpig1]

A fine, fine film. One of Russell's best. Chamberlain's performance was definetly underrated, Glenda Jackson was at her outgoing best, thye whole production looks great (especially Shirley Russell's costumes). What a shame is was so undervalued. When is it gonna get a proper treatment on DVD? Hopefully, while Chamberlain and Russell are still around to provide a first-class commentary! Criterion --- are you listening...?

[FesnojivPercussion]

1812

[lordcutlery]

Great film. I wish I didn't have to rely on emule for a copy in decent quality. Release the DVD, MGM, Now.

[musicloversgroup]

@lordcutlery 3 years later and still no release or i couldn't find one.

I'm very disappointed, I want to hear it in HQ, now!

[eyeseafilms]

What an amazing way to tell a story with loads of images.

[trinagailani]

great film. Beautifully shot images.

[neuronauta]

The man of the latter seconds is the poet Aleksei Nikolaievich Apukhtin, friend and possible lover of young Tchaikovsky...

[diveinow]

moive looks boreing and thats not the 1812 or at least not the way it's soppose to sound, before any yahoo jumps on this, in this section of the pice did you see a turkish harem?

[80stimeagain]

Tchaikovsky fascinates me still.

[artrimb]

I've watched this sequence so many times on my VHS copy, it's getting worn out. How long do we have to wait for the DVD?

[langbry]

Brilliant and haunting. This film gives me the chills.

[Ogobogo]

great movie!!!