Tchaikovsky Symphony#6 "Patetique": movement #1 (part one)

[Gordontrek]

Nice! Love how the video ends RIGHT when the conductor gives the downbeat for the "loud & fast" section. Saves the suspense for part 2!

[peacesellsstevebuyin]

the main theme reminds me so much of the ending music in a charlie chaplin movie. makes me cry every time

[ClassycalMuzak]

So in this movement Tchaikovsky laments the rudeness of the spectators.

[peacesellsstevebuyin]

@ClassycalMuzak if you try this sort of shit at a viewing of brahm's 4th, a pack of demons led by marilyn manson and the klondike bar polar bear will come and drag you down to hell...just sayin' folks

[Lilyroe26]

Who the hell dropped his chair 7mins in??? Good grief....

[Lilyroe26]

Now I remember why I don't like listening to live music! For goodness sake! Other than that, a lovely, well played piece of music. Shame about the rude audience..

[MyBlankFace]

what a lousy audience...

SHUT UP WHEN THE ORCHESTRA IS PLAYING.

[IsisSlovenska]

Cool!

[katoppie]

Nothing better than a Russian orchestra playing a Russian Symphony :)

[Lilyroe26]

@katoppie Pity it's to a Russian audience though

[ANYULA]

Tchaikovsky: I love you soo much!

[AndThePizza]

This is baby-making music. It meets every level and kind of "passion".

[Shahyee]

@PTR131 That is the craziest thing I have heard in a long time LOL!!!!

[broderrodents]

It looks like the conductor is standing on a blue Klondike bar! :)

[heca906]

@broderrodents lololllool0l0lo0l

[jaakriaj]

Heaven knows Tchaikovsky!

God and his angels are listening that right now!

[wojack1000]

I believe he's even got Beethoven beat.

[PTR131]

You are all going to hell for listening to this satanic music! You people need Jesus.

[TheDeviltrace]

@PTR131

i'm sorry, but....LOL.

[LJBSasha]

@PTR131: Music in itself (at least almost certainly classical music) can NEVER be "Satanic"!!! Furthermore, if you honestly believe that just listening to this symphony is going to send me and enough others to Hell (even if we be committed Christians), so be it!!! Maybe the composer (I pray and hope that God will have mercy on his profoundly-unhappy soul!!) will so end up; but I suspect that those of us risking Hell and the Lake of Fire have FAR WORSE things to worry about as far as sins go!

[SERINEAnarchist]

@PTR131 I don't know what your problem is but I love Tchaikovsky. And I'm pretty sure I'm not going to hell for listening to his music.

[LonewolfInvictus]

@PTR131.this for me is as close to getting a high without drugs as i can get! Classical music should be loved for the feeling it inspires within ones self, and if your puny person cannot enjoy the rapture a truly epic work of art can instill into the rest of us, do us all a favor and remember the old advice stating that if one should find one self in the impossibility of stating something nice one should refrain from talking...so do us a favor and look into sepukku

[goldielocks523]

@PTR131

Matt. 7:1 -- "Do not judge lest ye be judged." Also, did David not sing and play the harp for God? Whose to say that each and every musician up there isn't praising God as they play? When I play my instrument that is exactly what I am doing, thanking and praising the God who created me and the people who wrote the music being performed. Without music, we, as human beings, would be lost in this dreadful world and I pity your close-mindedness to the world around you.

[windstorm1000]

...and written from a gay man's sensibilites--which no doubt influenced this sym.'s immortality. So any people who bash gays should be aware that many talented people in history, like T., were gay.  Our world would be a poorer place without their melodies, paintings, stories, etc.

[windstorm1000]

Profound. Shattering. Heart Rending. The muscial equivalent of the dark night of the soul.

[MrJdePaiva]

Великолепный регентства и красивые интерпретации!

[pmcmusik]

The title is misspelled though....I love this peace....

[lewissunshine]

Tchaikovsky, our homosexual heroes!!!!

[Bluesheart54]

This is, at least to my ears and soul, Tchaikovsky best work ever.

But.... please, could somebody just kill that coughing idiot in the audience

[undyingdarkness610]

brilliant.. this audience is the worst.

[spinynorman230]

hey audience- SHUT UP!!!

[zjbeast]

people often call this his suicide note.. so sad and moving. He could not cope with being gay so he killed himself. RIP you were accepted for who you were..

[jgpg14]

@zjbeast In addition to that I've heard that the Russian Council actually found out he was gay, and gave him the option to either kill himself or have his music banned throughout Russia as well as himself be exiled. Truly a terrible thing...

[Tsamnon]

Beautiful. . .

[cxxr6rycp6]

It's Moscow in November, but still, THAT much coughing would annoy the hell out of me if I was pouring out my soul.

[immapubrec]

YouTube the Great Great Grandfather in Composition of Peter I. Tchaikovsky:

Iosif Andriasov

[bittysnack]

"alright guys! as soon as they start playing ...we're gonna start coughing, horking, sneezing and any thing else we can think of to remind this orchestra that our bodily functions are still operating properly." Seriously?! If you're coughing that damn much you should be seeing a doctor not ruining Tchaikovsky.

[quemlar]

Such emotion, I don't have the words to describe it. Tchaikvosky is my all time favourite classical composer.

[adri1430]

@AugustusAurelianus1-Thank you dear friend! One of my favorite composers...truly a pleasure...

[bandgeekforever17]

We are playing this song with our marching band. I have the Clarinet solo

[mjp13rockon]

great violas at the beginning

[miepdetruus]

okee, now i had it, damn, i'm sorry, but i'm gonna click away, the audience = driving me nuts..

[cherryontopx1000]

The worlds best music = composed by Tschaikowsky. This is my favorite symphony; it's so moving and passionate.

[14wordsCI]

Concert halls need soundproof rooms in which to seat coughers, sneezers, and other noisy audience members. The music would be piped in, but the unwanted noises couldn't escape to annoy others.

[seclife]

If you like to discus the audience manner.. please come to Jordan to see their manner.. usually such concerts ends with a fight between gentle men and back street boys..

[dragmio]

@seclife Oh, boy. At classical concerts? That's terrible. Such stuff happens even now in some movie theatres in Eastern Europe, but never at events such as this.

Well it only shows us why there is such a thing as football, and why the hooligans are tolerated. Let them vent their agression on stadiums and leave cultured people alone. Promote football! :)

[ximedea]

Was that flu time? What the hell is going on with the audience! Anyway, Tchaikovsky is ... no words to describe his work...

[herrbrahms]

This audience needs some lessons in manners.  When the music starts, shut the hell up! Don't go walking up the rows, opening your purse zipper, etc.

[GerbilEssences]

@herrbrahms lol so true :)

[fdsaman123]

@herrbrahms I know what you mean. Even for an individual listener, it's impossible to enjoy the music when moving around etc. But in fairness, this audio is quite compressed, so it's blowing up all of those small noises making them seem worse than they are.

[septip123]

@herrbrahms asking an old person NOT to cough at a concert is like asking the sun NOT to rise.

[herrbrahms]

@septip123 That's not what I said; reread my post. Coughing is a disturbance, true, but my objection is with the people who blithely stroll through the aisles after the conductor has started. (Blame the ushers, too.) Also, there's a special place in hell for people who unzip their purses and go digging for a piece of candy, that they then noisily unwrap.

I hear similar inconsiderate people at live concerts all the time, and I wish I had a crossbow to permanently shut them up. ZzzzipSMACK

[RichardMartin2]

@herrbrahms That special place in Hell is, presumably, "where their bottoms are prodded with tiny forks all day and night" [Blackadder I] ?

[daflowerbomb]

@herrbrahms I think perhaps they had just arrived? An unfortunate place for the camera to be.

[daflowerbomb]

@herrbrahms I think perhaps they had just arrived? An unfortunate place for the camera to be. Just think, music used to be only for church or background.

[benny7101]

@herrbrahms you should see chinese audiences. apparently in their culture its okay to talk and such during performances...and its really aggravating/embarassing performing for them and hearing/seeing them point/talk/etc. i say that from experience lol.

[katrina220]

@herrbrahms intonation could be better

[katrina220]

@herrbrahms intonation could be better. At some points it was almost painfully out of tune

[fcmilsweeper9]

Oh my GAWD how many people are going to sneez?

[bernard1422]

Great artists are like that. They search for the ineffable numinous, the very pleroma, an enitity that is out of the mere grasp of mortals, and when they find it(as Tchaikovsky clearly did here)they touch the lights above the heavens.

[30sandrita1]

beautiful!:)

[HaleQuin]

I performed this a few weeks ago. It was him finally recognsing hes not goin to live forever , and him accepting that fate , and how scared he was

[calculatrguy]

It was actually written as he was slowly dying from arsenic poisoning- he was sentenced to commit suicide to protect the honor of the ruling class, because he had a homosexual affair with a former schoolmate (who happened to be nobility) decades before.

[janicesoprano]

Tchaikovsky lived with the so-called taint of homosexuality for his entire life, he died from cholera, not from arsenic poisining, homosexuality in those days was punashable by death. He drank untreated water five days before he died. No one knows if and did he killed himself. Let us live in peace, shall we?

[8cubanm]

This is my favorite symphony, I cant imaging what Tchaikovsky was thinking when he was composing this symphony, to me it is like you want reach something that you cant touch or reach at the same time, but anyway it is the most beautiful symphony of all.

Daniel Morales

[XEA6L]

That's what leads to depression.......he was depressed at the time...

[thesilvershining]

...he was depressed *most* of the time. But with pain comes artistic fervor, so in the end he suffered and the audience triumphed.

[XEA6L]

@thesilvershining that's a different way to look at it.....

[Ant777uk]

Interesting watching and listening to different conductorial styles. Ozawa conducting the BPO just about breeeaaaaths this first bit in so quietly.

[Faustnh]

the piece of music that drew my life directly to music.

[xtremenortherner]

Such a beautiful,soul-reaching piece of music! And some people have told me that Tchaikovsky doesn't "rate" with the likes of Beethoven & Brahms??? Tchaikovsky is like Michaelangelo or DaVinci;everything he wrote is a masterpiece! Can you imagine a world w/o Pathetique,or Snow White,or the Nutcracker Suite?! How ironic that a deaf man wrote the best symphonies,or a heartbroken man wrote the most heart-felt music!

[OrpheusXTheXGOD]

ive never heard anyone ever say tchaikovsky doesent compare to beethoven. Tchaikovsky's is just a different style his masterpiece are all amazing epics

[Nightfighter74]

Everybody coughing and the guy dropping his chair at 6:54 should be punished with a dozend lashes ...

[hezixiao]

I extremely love the major part-it fells like we see a hope and we see sun shine but still full of sadness... Tchaikovsky is unique!!!

[jinnm4]

i killed my cello at

measure number O :(

[dsjlj40]

this music is so amazing...the people that kept coughing in the background got really annoying though...

[Whyolin]

i meant: positive, good

[Whyolin]

Am i prejudiced in a postitive manner if it crosses my mind that maybe russians, Moscow philharmonics play this better than other nations, just because this is theirs, and Tchaikowsky was Russian?

[farb34]

I think Russians can relate to this materpiece by Tchaikovsky because if you look throughout history, Russians have known pain suffering unlike any other nation.

[cloudsky09]

in a way, but not a big part of history.

[30sandrita1]

all Slavs are like that:) I know! I'm Serbian!:) Maybe we even more than them.

[Darkdread12]

05.07 :´-( it always touches my heart.

[apokalypse24]

I AGREE !!!!!!!!!

[Darkdread12]

Beautiful, hermoso!

[darkmaides]

This is the greatest piece of music ever written.

[220392123]

I totally agree.

[donchoro]

who dead after that?

[darkmaides]

who isn't..

[invalidtag]

This piece of orchestral literature is absolutely beautiful, the violas are like dark water and the bassoon is just gorgeous.

This piece can break your heart and at the same time make it swell with remarkable appreciation.

The orchestra did a good job with this as well.

[PhilosopherEight]

I grew up to this.

When I was 3, I would lay down next to the stereo and watch the record spin, listening to this majesty all around me. This is my core - the very heart of me.

As my years have passed, I have found that this symphony seems to echo my life in an oddly biographical manner. I can imagine the exact years of my life being set to each moment of the music through the 1st & 2nd mvmts, up to today where the 3rd has started in my life.

I hope I can defeat fate, & avoid the 4th.

[VanessaMaeFan18]

THAT WAS SO DEEP!!!! :-)

[fstnnh]

This is the piece of music that changed my life

[sofista86]

how?

[fstnnh]

It showed me, or I'd better say, it revealed me the deep true and sincere aspirations and sense of Music, it opened my eyes to Music, in such a strange and mystic way, that, since then, Music has been always in the center of my thoughts, I've matured my own personal understanding of Music, and I've always had the intention of dedicating myself to composing, sooner or later.

[hugaadro]

..........  :)

[troll1101]

buen video lastima que esten tosiendo

[moxinghbian]

You guys have no idea how well the #6 welds with world war II

it's like Tchaikovsky predicted WWII.

[dashinvaine]

I think it's always the same idiot with the cough...

[creat0rmil0]

agreed

[Nightfighter74]

Some idiots always cough ... !!!

[frikk22]

Wonderful performance!!!!

A very good "Fingerspitzgefuehl" for the many nuances and a very nice glow in the sound.

[wefasdf23]

This peice almost relives the moments in which Tchaikovsky contemplated his death - his suicide, as he looked through his life, seeing no hope, no nostalgia.

[pacastandup123]

I like how they put the Violas on the outside.

[cwinger10]

Tchaikovsky's music is pure heaven

[KSCIAA]

Excellent piece this is.

[killuaandalen]

very adorabl!!! but god bless u

[snamreg]

kien tiene tos? ¬¬!

[ottokees]

So unforgettable !!! I posted Kirill Kondrashin. Cheeers""", ~Sergio.

[kitri80]

Bravissimi!

[Shdan125]

Thanks for posting this video.

[mika10028]

So beautful...Russian orchastras best plays their composers. I love Pathetique. Thanks for posting.

[MusicMan120071]

im playing this for all-state in april.... it's so hard

[darkprose]

Fantastic performance. Thank you.