Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

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About Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

"Adagio for Strings" was written by American composer Samuel Barber. It is Barber's best-known composition although it was not one of his Pulitzer Prize winners. The Adagio is a re-arrangement of the slow second movement of Barber's "String Quarter, Op. 11." Barber was only 26 when the Adagio was to performed, in 1938, by Arturo Toscanini's famed NBC Symphony Orchestra. At the end of the first rehearsal, Toscanini remarked, "Simple & beautiful!" This was especially amazing because he rarely conducted pieces by American composers. .

From the album: Classical for Meditation

Prelude in A Minor, Op. 8, VL 188 (Arr. J. Daunytė for Harp) by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis , Joana Daunytė ,
No. 1, Preludio saudade by Agustín Barrios Mangoré , Graham Anthony Devine ,
Visitors by Peter Breiner ,
Elegy for English Horn, Harp & String Orchestra by Peter Boyer , Christine Pendrill , Bryn Lewis , London Symphony Orchestra ,
Koojo No Tsuki by Rentaro Taki , Marc Grauwels ,
Intermezzo by Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Holst Sinfonietta , Klaus Simon ,
No. 2, Nenia by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Bokyung Byun ,
II. Le couvent by Gabriel Pierné , Orchestre National de Lille , Darrell Ang ,
No. 1, Modéré by Nadia Boulanger , Nicolas Altstaedt , José Gallardo ,
And Everything Is Still... (Version for Saxophone & Piano) by Andy Scott , Timothy McAllister , Liz Ames ,
No. 2, Melody, Post scriptum by Valentin Silvestrov , Inna Galatenko , Oleg Bezborodko , Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra , Christopher Lyndon-Gee ,
No. 7, Floating Clouds by Tan Dun , Susan Chan ,
No. 1, Lento by Tibor Harsanyi , Birgit Ramsl , Gottlieb Wallisch ,
Meditation by Paul Lewis , Royal Northern Sinfonia , David Lloyd-Jones ,
II. Elegie by Kemal Belevi , Silvia Grasso , Livio Grasso ,
No. 17, The Young Bride. Adagio [Original Version] by Béla Bartók , Fülöp Ránki ,
Intermezzo I by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , Oviedo Filarmonía , Friedrich Haider ,
No. 6, Adagio largamente by Alfredo Piatti , Andreas Brantelid ,
Prelude No. 9 in E Major: Andantino by César Cui , Jeffrey Biegel ,
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten for Strings and Bells by Arvo Pärt , Hungarian State Opera Orchestra , Tamás Benedek ,
Prelude in D Minor (Ed. J. Walsh) by Antonio Maria Bononcini , Augusta McKay Lodge ,
No. 1, Heart's Ease: Andante tranquillo – Lento by Frank Bridge , Ashley Wass ,
I. Prélude by John Rutter , Graham Anthony Devine ,
I. Prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach , Maria Kliegel ,
La cloche sonne, S. 238 by Franz Liszt , Domonkos Csabay ,
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 by Samuel Barber , Royal Scottish National Orchestra , Marin Alsop ,
Prelude in G Minor by Alessandro De Marchi , Andreas Greger ,
Preludio for Piano by Camillo Togni , Aldo Orvieto ,
No. 2, Andante by Luis de Freitas Branco , Camerata Atlântica , Ana Beatriz Manzanilla ,
Gymnopedie No. 3 by Erik Satie , Klara Kormendi ,
IV. Sarabande by Johann Sebastian Bach , Jeffrey McFadden ,
II. Largo by Antonio Vivaldi , Alberto Martini , Accademia I Filarmonici ,
II. Adagio sostenuto by Anton Kraft , Alexander Rudin , Emin Martirosian ,
I. Adagio sostenuto by Ludwig van Beethoven , Jenő Jandó ,
I. Evocación by Jose Luis Merlin , Jason Vieaux ,
II. Carol by Ralph Vaughan Williams , Helen Callus , New Zealand Symphony Orchestra , Marc Decio Taddei ,
Chin Chin Chidori by Hidemaro Konoye , Marc Grauwels , Ingrid Procureur ,
IV. Rainy Day by Tom G. Febonio , Ahlert & Schwab Duo ,
No. 2 Siesta (Slowly, swayingly) by Edward MacDowell , James Barbagallo ,
XIII. The Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns , Marian Lapsansky , Peter Toperczer , Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra , Ondrej Lenard ,
La vision by Charles-Valentin Alkan , Laurent Martin ,
I. Andante by Edward Elgar , New Zealand Symphony Orchestra , James Judd ,
Spiegel im Spiegel (Version for Violin and Piano) by Arvo Pärt , Malin Broman , Simon Crawford-Phillips ,