The World's most beautiful music: The Grande Adagio from the Ballet, "Sparticus"

Spartacus, or Spartak, is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978). The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War, although the ballet's storyline takes considerable liberties with the historical record. Khachaturian composed the ballet in 1954. It was widely acclaimed by the critics as a masterpiece with Leonid Jacobson's choreography in Moscow in 1956. Khachaturian revised the ballet score in 1968 and it was choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich. It remains one of his best known works and is prominent within the repertoires of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre and other ballet companies in Russia and the former Soviet Union. (Information source: Wikipedia)

I first heard this music from the Third Act, the "Grande Adagio" when it was played on one of my favorite classical music stations on my way home from a Chamber Singers rehearsal not too long ago. I was mesmerized.