Fantasia & Fantasia 2000

The Blu-ray Disc™ two-movie collection special edition contains four discs: the landmark film "Fantasia" (1940) and "Fantasia 2000," each on a Blu-ray Disc platter, and the two films each on DVD platters. Both Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 offer classic musical numbers brilliantly married to animated segments that enhance the musical experience. Fantasia 2000 offers such enduring musical pieces as Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite," Saint-Saëns' "Carnival Of The Animals," Shostakovich's "Piano Concerto No. 2," George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue," Respighi's "Pines Of Rome," and Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5." Each of the pieces include an introduction by well-known faces such as Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Quincy Jones, Penn & Teller, and Angela Lansbury. For those who have not enjoyed the classic original "Fantasia," it offers delightful animated segments, with dancing mushrooms, a hippo in a passe de deux with a crocodile, ethereal fairies, and that everlovin' mouse, Mickey; all set to the beautiful and inspiring music of Bach, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Moussorgsky, Beethoven, and others. This "Fantasia" is the restored roadshow version—a series of eight animated musical compositions. The first movie with a multichannel stereophonic soundtrack, and one of the greatest work of animated art. (Gary Reber).