...maestoso which precedes the finale — that are lacking in all the others. In the sixth, Tchaikovsky has concentrated the brooding melancholy which is the...characteristic and recurrent of all his emotional phases. Tchaikovsky never carried out his intention of writing down the programme of this symphony, but he...

...Fifth has touches of religious feeling which are absent from all the rest. In the Sixth Tschaikowsky seems to have concentrated the brooding melancholy...Throughout the whole of his music we are never far from this shadow." "There is no doubt," says Miss Newmarch, "that one of the reasons of the extraordinary...