When one thinks musically of the historical figure of Spartacus and the slave rebellion he led against the Roman Empire, especially on this site, the first thing that usually comes to mind is Alex North’s brilliant and monumental score for the 1960 Stanley Kubrick film classic starring Kirk Douglas. But six years before North composed his film score the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian composed a three hour plus ballet score that told the story of Spartacus in an equally monumental fashion. Spartacus premiered at the Kirov Ballet in 1956 in this original version. The most famous version of Khachaturian’s ballet was, however, the 1968 Bolshoi version choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich. This version, which ran about 30 minutes shorter, was performed to great acclaim during the Bolshoi’s highly successful world tour in the 1970s. The conductor of those performances, Algis Zhuraitis, recorded the complete 3 hour version of the score with the Bolshoi Orchestra during this time and the recording was released in the West on CBS/Melodia as a 4 LP set. A single disc CD of highlights was released by Eurodisc in the 1980s. An inferior, poorly remastered complete version was also released on CDs only in Russia but the sound is severely compressed and shrill. The CBS/Melodia Spartacus was available briefly to members of the Columbia Tape Club in the 1970s and this DSD archived remaster is from that tape source except for about 20 minutes of material that was damaged on the tape. The additional pieces were also DSD archived from a fairly clean CBS pressing from the 1970s. Apart from the ballet Spartacus’ music sounds like it could be a film score from some 1960s Roman epic and the music is colourful and expressive, not to mention truly spectacular throughout. The third act adagio is famous for its use as the signature theme on the British television series “The Onedin Line” and also in the films, “Mayerling” and “The Hudsucker Proxy”. Khachaturian fashioned no less than four ballet concert suites from Spartacus which have received many recordings and are still performed at symphony concerts but this complete version of this truly epic score is well worth a listen.

FLAC:
https://mega.nz/#!t9AlVCSB!FFqosklKKsSDwHKOX-ZMlfz6nW6C9IehrsZFIjRd-DQ
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thank you very much steviefromalaska!!!

Thank you for sharing this!

Great share. Good to see that you incorporated the bonus tracks into the body of the ballet. The 4 LP version kept them separate.

This and Gayane are my favorites from Aram, thanks so much for sharing this. I can't have enough recordings of this work from him...

Thank you steviefromalaska for another great post and as always for your detailed liner notes.

Thanks for this fantastic share!

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Thank you for this complete version, Stevie!

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Amazing work. Wonderful music! Thank you so much!

Great share, many thanks.

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Here are updated FLAC links to Khachaturian's complete Spartacus Ballet:
https://mega.nz/#!t9AlVCSB!FFqosklKKsSDwHKOX-ZMlfz6nW6C9IehrsZFIjRd-DQ
https://mega.nz/#!o1YhESib!9AdyvN9l59LKtS5X0XXZbvrgqPvaZVHp7XWXEVLT6B0

Great share!!!!

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Hi! Liks are not working any more. Any chance of a re-up? Thanks in advance!

Please re-up?Thanks so much!

Hi! Liks are not working any more. Any chance of a re-up? Thanks in advance!

Here are new links to this download. Please download as soon as possible.

https://mega.nz/#!t9AlVCSB!FFqosklKKsSDwHKOX-ZMlfz6nW6C9IehrsZFIjRd-DQ
https://mega.nz/#!o1YhESib!9AdyvN9l59LKtS5X0XXZbvrgqPvaZVHp7XWXEVLT6B0

Herrrow!

Linkies not werking mate... ;-(

Kindly re-up ... pretty please!

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Thanks e reputation in advance for Spartacus

steviefromalaska...

HELP! Please? As someone with an Armenian background, I feel so left out by not having this edition. It sounds delicious!

The reviews of your upload are stunning too; so yeah, it sounds cool, would you mind very much re-uploading it again please? Or anyone else who managed to grab it before it was taken off, please?

It would be absolutely lovely to see this as a torrent, if it ain't too much trouble, anone.

I do appreciate your time and effort.

Thanks again
Love2All
Perky

steviefromalaska...

HELP! Please? As someone with an Armenian background, I feel so left out by not having this edition. It sounds delicious!
It would be absolutely lovely to see this as a torrent, if it ain't too much trouble, anone.
I do appreciate your time and effort.

Thanks e reputation in advance for Spartacus

Here are new FLAC links to this download:

https://mega.nz/#!t9AlVCSB!FFqosklKKsSDwHKOX-ZMlfz6nW6C9IehrsZFIjRd-DQ
https://mega.nz/#!o1YhESib!9AdyvN9l59LKtS5X0XXZbvrgqPvaZVHp7XWXEVLT6B0

Thanks!!!

I got it. Success! That was lightning fast, Oh My God!

Thank you so much for caring, steviefromalaska.