Spartacus

And if you want to get in touch, then you can email info at classicalforeveryone.net. To finish this episode, I have some music from the Soviet-Armenian composer Aram Kachaturian.

This is the 10-minute adagio from his ballet Spartacus, written in 1954.

If there was ever music that just absolutely evokes a certain type of longing, then I think this is it.

Stanley Black conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.

Thank you.

¶¶ . . . ¶¶ Thank you.

That was Stanley Black conducting the London Symphony Orchestra with the Adagio from Aram Cacciaturian's ballet Spartacus.

Thanks for your time, and I look forward to playing you some more incredible music on the next Classical for Everyone.

And that was Rachmaninoff's Musical Moment No. 4 in E minor, and it was played by Maxim Golubev.

The Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra have for us the Adagio from Spartacus.

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[classical music][classical music] The Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra there with the Adagio from Spartacus.

Here's Mantovani's Orchestra.

They have for us the Limelight theme.

Vadim Gluzman was on violin.

Rounding off the hour with music of the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, well known for his ballets, including Gayane and Spartacus.

We'll hear now some of his incidental music for Masquerade.

In the play, a character talks about the music she's hearing, and it gives her a feeling somewhere between sorrow and joy.