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: In Memoriam - Classical Music and Readings for Funerals

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The Old Testament - Selections from The Bible: Psalm 23, "The Lord is my shepherd" by Bible - Old Testament , Josette Simon ,
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Chorale: Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring) by Johann Sebastian Bach , Hungarian Radio Chorus , Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra , Matyas Antal ,
Song: When I am dead, my dearest by Christina Rossetti , Simon Russell Beale ,
Ave Maria (version for voice and orchestra) by Johann Sebastian Bach , Charles Gounod , Ingrid Kertesi , Camerata De Budapest , Laszlo Kovacs ,
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke , Simon Russell Beale ,
Requiem, Op. 48: Pie Jesu by Gabriel Fauré , Lisa Beckley , Colm Carey , Oxford Camerata , Jeremy Summerly ,
Crossing the Bar by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Jasper Britton ,
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A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Jasper Britton ,
Adagio in G Minor (attrib. to Albinoni) by Remo Giazotto , Capella Istropolitana , Richard Edlinger ,
Meeting by Christina Rossetti , Laura Paton ,
Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act II: Lascia ch'io pianga (Let me Lament) by George Frideric Handel , Ingrid Kertesi , Camerata De Budapest , Laszlo Kovacs ,
The Old Testament - Selections from The Bible: Psalm 46, "I will lift up mine eyes" by Bible - Old Testament , Philip Madoc ,
Ave verum corpus, K. 618 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Kosice Teachers' Choir , Camerata Cassovia , Johannes Wildner ,
Sonnet 30, "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" by William Shakespeare , Alex Jennings ,
Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria!), Op. 52, No. 6, D. 839, "Hymne an die Jungfrau": Ellen's Gesang III (Ave Maria!), Op. 56, No. 6, D. 839, "Hymne an die Jungfrau" by Franz Schubert , Ingrid Kertesi , Camerata De Budapest , Laszlo Kovacs ,
Holy Sonnet – Death, be not proud: Death, be not proud by John Donne , Anton Lesser ,
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma": Variation 9: Nimrod by Edward Elgar , Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra , Adrian Leaper ,
This World is not Conclusion by Emily Dickinson , Teresa Gallagher ,
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: Sequence No. 6. Lacrimosa dies illa (completed by Sussmayr) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Gewandhaus Chamber Choir , Leipzig Chamber Orchestra , Morten Schuldt-Jensen ,
Remember by Christina Rossetti , Emma Fielding ,
Let us garlands bring, Op. 18: Fear no more the heat o' the sun by Gerald Finzi , Roderick Williams , Iain Burnside ,
Eternity by William Blake , Tony Britton ,
Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs": II. Lento e largo - Tranquillissimo by Henryk Górecki , Zofia Kilanowicz , Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra , Antoni Wit ,
A Farewell by Charles Kingsley , Tony Britton ,
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The Old Testament - Selections from The Bible: Psalm 122, "I was Glad when they said unto Me" by Bible - Old Testament , Anton Lesser ,
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 by Samuel Barber , Royal Scottish National Orchestra , Marin Alsop ,