Moscow State Symphony Orchestra Music director & Chief conductor - P. Kogan Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow Philharmonic) Moscow, 2021 Conductor - Azim Karimov link to the full concert recording: • Video
I was five or six years old when I first heard this piece on television. It was the theme song from "The Onedin Line“. The music uplifted me and I was moved to tears. I had never heard anything like this before. I was falling in love. But I didn't know the name of the piece or the composer. I only knew: it’s this song from that „TV series with the sailing ships.“ For years I searched for the song, asked my grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles. Nobody knew it. There was no internet and no google to ask back then. Years went by. When I was 30 years old, I was in Speyer, Germany. All of a sudden I heard some music from a distance. There was a violinist at the cathedral. And he played that piece! I could not believe what I was hearing. I rushed towards the violinist. Talked to him. He told me the name of the piece and the composer. And played it again. Just for me. I felt like I had finally met the love of my life again - after losing her. And I could finally take her in my arms. After years of separation. And this is exactly what Spartacus & Phrygia is about. With one exception: i didn’t die.
Thank you for your wonderful narrative. Just like you, I first heard the deeply touching melody in the English vessel series "The Onedin Line" in the 1980s and did not know which composer wrote this wonderful piece. It was only a few years later, by chance, that I bought a cassette of works by Khatchaturian and recognized the lyrical and dramatic Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia. It is one of my favorite pieces by Khatcharturian, whom I love very much for his Caucasian and exuberant color. I also played a few easier piano pieces by Khatchaturian, who is technically very demanding, of course not really manageable for an amateur piano player.
Bonjour, j'ai exactement connu la même anecdote, le générique de fin de ce feuilleton qui se passait sur un magnifique trois mats le "Charlotte Ross", moi non plus je ne savais pas qui avait composé ce déchirant adagio ! Je l'ai découvert plus de trente ans après en écoutant par hasard une station de radio qui passe du classique : France Musique ! Cela a été une révélation ! Je pleure comme une madeleine en l'écoutant... C'est juste sublime.
How beautifully written, out of a beautiful emotional world. I have heard the piece for the first time in the same series, 'Onedin line' a long time ago, and just like you, love the piece to this day.
The feeling when listening to the Adagio is that A. katchaturian had either been snatched up to Heaven for a few moments, or that an angel inspired him.
His name is big enough. His name recognition may not be as big but it is our fault, not a fault of those who worked with him or those who covered his work.
It’s definitely up there. I also think the last 2.5 minutes of Rachmaninov’s Third piano concerto and the first minute or two of his Second symphony Adagio movement are just beautiful.
Me too Tania. My mum loved the tv program that used this piece, I just loved the music. Has been my favourite classical piece since childhood. I have explored lots of classical music since then but Khachaturian has remained my all time favourite, this just makes me cry every time, its so emotive, I love it
@@Sirius-me5zy A few suggestions for you: 1) Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring; Rodeo; Billy the Kid 2) Alan Hovhaness - Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" 3) Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"; Serenade for Strings 4) Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings 5) Gustav Holst - The Planets 6) Ottorino Respighi - The Pines of Rome 7) William Alwyn - Symphony No. 3
The music so fits the story of Spartacus and the slaves and their courageous yet ultimately doomed fight for freedom. It's still relevant to injustice today, and is eternally beautiful.
As a teenager growing up in the UK in the 1970's, Sunday evenings, BBC1 The Onedin Line with its beautiful theme - Khachaturian's "Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia".
This piece epitomizes tragic romance; first, romanticizing the death of Spartacus, and secondly, Phrygia’s heartbreak for the loss of her beloved Spartacus.
Armenian. Kachaturian is an armenian composer, but for those years Armenia was part of the URSS. Stop war in every part of the world. Stop Azerbaiyans agression over armenians in Nagorno Garapagh. Dont forget them
In my 14 years of living, I’ve genuinely never been so captivated by music before. I heard this somewhere and had been searching for it for a whole week straight, and I’m absolutely awestruck. Goose bumps.
I was lucky to see the ballet Spartacus years ago . Aram Khachaturian was very talented . Once you listen to his music , you want to hear more . I think this is the best of what I heard . It is very dramatic and yet very elegant . Thanks . Spasibo .
A sublime piece of music. The strings, woodwinds, harp, brass, and percussion weave their seamless tapestry as they guide us through the struggle of Spartacus.
I just "stumbled" upon this while searching for ballett videos and I cant stop repeating this video. I literally watching with my mouth open and a single tear rolling down my cheek.
Einfach nur schön. Was für ein gefühlvoller, toller Komponist.Ich liebe ihn schon seit der Schulzeit.❤ Simply beautiful. What a sensitive, stunning composer he was. I' ve loved him since my time at school. Always.
The ballet is spectacular. And Spartacus and his wife dancing this on the eve of his defeat - heartrending. And then, a quotation from it does segue remarkably well into the sound-track behind a clipper cutting through the ocean . Lovely piece.
I have grown up around the Classics of some of the most influential composers from this beautiful planet. This piece, along with many others draws me back to my childhood and soothes my tempered soul. Beautiful.
A celestial master performance of Khatchaturian's famous master piece. Thank you so much, dear Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and Azim Karimov. May humanity come together as one united in music, the most celestial form of art, reminding us of the true meaning of life, which is to praise the beauty of god's creation.
I first heard it when I was a kid in a foreign movie series, It hit me so hard in my heart, that I followed each series from beginning to end, even though I did not understand a word, only to capture even 30 seconds of music.
This was the theme music to the British series, Poldark, when i was a kid - '70s. IMO the best piece of music ever written. And I think this is the best performance of it I have heard.
Did you send me this recording, my favorite. I searched for a recording of this for years in the '60s. Finally found it on Columbia by the Philadelphia Philharmonic. I always play it for my Armenian friends.
One of my most favorite pieces ❤️. I wish I had learned strings in addition to brass (I played trumpet and baritone). I hope my sons develop a love for classical music too.
I wasn't sure about Classical music, I knew it was good because of the performance put in to it, but then I heard this and thought Wow The Onedin line theme! listened to it again and again and thought Wow this is beautiful and so much more!!
This song reminds me of the Spring time and the awakening of Nature. I imagine beautiful gardens and green pastures, flowing rivers and gurgling brooks. Fields with flowers and plants, trees.
Me too I remember hearing it a long time ago with a TV show, loved it ! Still do ! Never knew he composed it ! Wow ! Beautiful ! Listen to his Masquerade suite si beautiful as well ! My favourite Waltz!
You need to see the ballet with it - the Bolshoi broadcast to cinemas last year was fabulous. I saw Masquerade in Yerevan in 2018 or 2019 - equally magical - but very rarely performed today.
Yes l agree, you need the choreography. Saw the Spartacus ballet at the Tashkent Opera House during an unforgettable Uzbekistan trip, Easter 2008. Lady conductor. The piece is uneven but fascinatingly virile, almost homoerotic. Then came this sublime pas de deux and everybody in the theatre, including our conductor, wept openly. As did l.
Woooow - ....ist das nicht der Wahnsinn ...🌪.... wenn und wie die Musik aufgeht💥 !!!? ....immer wieder Gänsehaut und "Arme auseinander zum Himmel gestreckt" ! Also, wenn einer verstanden hat was das LEBEN IST - was ein Herzschlag bedeutet - 💓 dann dieser Komponist!
¡Bravo! ¡Bravisimo! Excelente interpretacion una de los mejores adaggios de la musica clasica. Felicitaciones al director y a cada uno de los integrantes de la orquesta y por supuesto a Khachaturiam donde se encuentre
