Barber Adagio for Strings
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Barber
Adagio for Strings, op. 11

Originally developed as the second movement of Barber's String Quartet and inspired by a passage from Vergil's Georgics about a widening river's growth.  Although often played at memorials, the Adagio's emotional charge is both sad and optimistic.

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Musica recommended recording
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein website
Orchestra: Los Angeles
                      Philharmonic
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Label: Deutsche Grammophon Label website
Catalogue Ref: 439528-2GGA
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Release Date: 15-Nov-1993

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Label (Deutsche Grammophon) DG disc information

Bernstein recorded the Adagio with the LA Phil in San Fransisco in 1982.  A powerful and rhapsodic performance combined here on this DG disc with a sensational recording of Copland's Appalachian Spring too.