Samuel Barber has touched the Soul of Man with this composition. It captures the depth of my heart's yearning for compassion, for healing, for understanding and for peace. It is both sad and mournful and yet it is also uplifting - representative of the contradictory nature of MAN himself. This is a masterpiece of music that I need to hear periodically to heal my heart and inspire my Soul. Blessings to you Samuel Barber for your talent and gifts.
My father had in his funeral directions for me to have Adagio played at his funeral. He never spoke of it while on earth. Some 8 years later while approaching the Cliffs of Mohrer in Ireland, a single violinist was playing it as we walked to the observation tower. Talk about tears flowing...it was incredible!
How is it that this piece, as is soars ever upwards, reaches into you, your very soul, and literally pulls the most intense emotions from you? A mix of bittersweet sadness and hope, it is the very embodiment of grace. Like the handful of great masterworks in the world, Michelangelo's David, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Adagio must truly be God's hand at work through these gifted geniuses. Now I have to go dry my eyes...
My absolute favorite piece of classical music. The emotions this brings out are incredible. I feel such pain and sadness in the music. I can only imagine what Barber was feeling when he wrote it. I have my own thoughts when I listen to it. It may sound strange, but sometimes emotional pain or sadness can be a beautiful thing. It makes me feel alive.
I truly was about to cry and yet at the same time, can't help but smile. Coming from a person who has recovered from amnesia and near post-traumatic stress from losing my loved ones. I only wish to listen to more of these songs because I want to feel the emotions, I thought was lost. Thank you for uploading such a song that should be shared with so much more. You have enlighten me and will confront my anxieties and talk once more to the people who once cared for me but forgotten.
This is one of those pieces of music (and I don't care who your are, or what your "preferences" are) that will make you cry ,or smile, or fall on your knees and curse the skies,or fall on your knees and thank God...it just elicits that extreme reaction in anyone. A Great Composition...
It takes me through all the depressing moments in my life. It is very heart touching. If you don't want to be depressed think about flowers, think about friends and family and trust me you will feel happiness and pleasure and freedom. Thank you Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein.
This piece makes me imagine being at the end of my life and looking back with a great sense of tranquility and sorrow, a bittersweet feeling of content from admiring the beauty and shortness of life. Everything will be okay, everything will be peaceful in the end when all the dust settles, no matter what else happens, just let go and exist. Enjoy it while it lasts.
This is Indeed the best version ever !!!! Bernstein was just a musical genius, and as a conductor without equal. The Orchestra here plays the most beautiful string playing that I ever heard. But ofcorse without skill and a master conductor this wouldn´t be. Here lenny and the Fine Orchestra reaches highs that are seldom reached in this world.
It's such a pity he can't get to see all the new renditions of this song and experience how people vibe to the Trance versions in clubs and stadiums. Would have been magical
Having played this piece so many times, I have to say this is one of my most favorite renditions by Bernstein and it never, never fails to move me. Just magnificent!
This is my fav piece of music. So sublime, so unpretentious. I listened to this with my father in the hospital room during his last days, (two sets of headphones). He had parkinsons/dementia and was scared 'bout what was happening to him. You should have seen the ecstatic look on his face, his hands as he followed each movement. My 20yr. old daughter merely thought it "sad." That may be the blindness of youth. I consider it utterly beautiful, uplifting and calming at the same time. peace.
I can't begin to imagine what you're going through. I'm meaningless really, but this one piece calmed me in many a troubling time. It is a masterpiece, a wonder of music.
I'm so glad you both said this. This music, on paper,is so stupefying, but this recording in particular is one of those rare and indescribable moments--the kind every musician can recall--that's captured in a recording. I just wish I knew which ensemble it was... T_T
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I had the pleasure of hearing this live a few months ago, and I was blown away by the simplicity and richness of the composition. It was a remarkable performance by the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. I am so glad to have found this superb recording on UA-cam to keep me happy until I am lucky enough to hear it live again.
If I ever need to see some humanity, I visit some videos of sophisticated and beautiful music, because the fans are truly have the most hospitality and treat one another like people. Thank you all for existing.
.... a great prayer for humanity .... .... the soul that speaks with the Divine ..... ...... thank you ..... Barber........and.....Great Master Bernstein
Many people know this from the movie Platoon, but it has a history of being played on radio to show respect or sadness. When FDR died in 1945 the US population was in mourning, and radio stations played this all day. Bernstein's interpretation is my favorite, and considered by many to the the best; which is of course a matter of taste.
Just some of US population. Many do not feel a piece of this piece. And by the way who was FDR? This interpretation has nothing to do with the mass feelings or some FDR - Rossevelt ?! Pretty naive conclusion and unncorrect toward Albinoni and Barber. The world had not started with USA. or fdr, pdr, mnr... etc. USA = the classroom for bad pupils - nothing special or glorious like you want to think.
Mrs. Bukvić your comment has no place here. Mr Barrer has inferred nothing remotely close to what you are babbling on about. He was merely doing what most do with music and talk about an event when he first heard this piece or what feeling they get from a piece. Have a good day, enjoy life and seek to see the good in world; for hate and negativity are for the lazy and the intolerant.
Mr. Pistol, it is so good for the world to have "clever" feeling liners to line up us what are the public respect or sadness! Without your kind the rest of world is lost. So, God bless USA dogs and cats! P.s.Take a walk "sir pistol" and learn to speak in the name of yourself!
this to me is so incredibly beautiful, so sad ,makes my heart fill up with so much feeling of sadness and love at the same time, it really speaks of a broken heart, loss of something so dear but a need to let those feelings go to let you cry and cleanse your soul
I don’t think there is another masterpiece like this that truly defines a raw emotional moment. While music can tug at your heart, this music is a part of your heart. Simply amazing
So I was in London when the 9/11 attacks happened and the Proms were going on and as a tribute to those who lost their lives the London Philharmonic opened with this piece and it made me cry... But such a majestic piece of music.
Agreed -- the Adagio is beyond beautiful and gets to the meaning, longing and frustrations of life itself. So does Barber's Knoxville Summer1915 and the slow movement of his piano Sonata. He was a master who seemed to write one masterpiece for each musical idiom.
You sir, have chosen words of logic representing the hope of humanity in logical speech eliminating the nonsense of what people tend to listen in these modern days !
it's like that when everything Bernstein conducts. All other conductors should be publically executed for turning classical music into a canned, lifeless, tasteless crap
Written from the composer's heart, this piece really 'hit's' the inner soul, wonderful performance by the orchestra under a brilliant conductor.Beautifully captured by the recording team. Chose this piece to be played at my wifes funeral, along with Pachabell's Cannon, found it very soothing as she was only 40 years old. Thank you for posting this wonderful version.
I would like to share a lovely story, if that's quite alright. I was at a symphony concert, and a fragile, elderly lady cellist came to announce that she had selected this song in honor of her husband who had recently died, as he was a Doctor of Music. I was dumbfounded by the music. It took over my soul and I was captivated. I told my mom "I have to play cello." Long story longer, that very lady called me and told me she would give me a cello and lessons for free. Cello's name is Adagio
This music was on a sentimental family dvd showing dozens of loved ones followed by their tombstones and by the end I was so sad and moved it affected me for weeks,powerful music can do that to you and this is the best with Intermezzo -Mascagni and Once upon a time in the west by Ennio Morricone.
All the times me and my brother went through, doing stuff, going places and getting me stuff until the bitter end of his life. The truth is always in my heart.
i once heard this on repeat for 10 hours straight - in the end i was floating in my mind, every little motion propelled me like a large bird on a strong current - truly a wonderful feeling:) On a sidenote, it drove my neighbour absolutely bonkers in the end:)
I'm not an expert musician. I don't honestly know how every texture is created. Yet, the way I hear some non-musicians talk about music could make many musicians blow a fuse. Just the performance of this alone could bring tears.
This is my favorite Leonard Bernstein work. It is in the movie Lorenzo's Oil and also Platoon. It is Barber's most famous piece and he is an American. So, by am American and conducted by an American. Love it.
Music is the key to everything in life. But the true emotions, love , passion, forgivingnes, and thoghtfulnes like in this piece is rare in any piece today, in all styles of music. This piece here is higher in spirit than life itself. A gift from higher forces to the humainty. A once in a lifetime composition, and the greatest american classical piece in my opinion ever written.
This of classical music is deep and mean full on so many levels it brings fort our fears and thoughts of our comrades of all nationalities thourghout the world who have fallen in battle conflict war and opens our mind to the possibilty that we must preverse world peace for ourselves our kids their childern etc. So take a minute to remember those who have given up their lifes to make the world a safer place to live in and those today who struggle for their freedom no matter the cost.
Far and Away without comparison the best Barber Adagio EVER!! This is Lennys thing , and it can´t be touched. Breathtaken in it´s beauty and Emotion. A very special version , a so called once in a lifetime take here, like in the presnce of god himself. And such a high class of string playing too!! Bernstein was a phenomenoen, a once in a lifetime gift to this world!!
me too, it is an unbelievably beautiful piece, and the 1st violin part is amazing to play. I actually want this played at my funeral, so people can remember me as someone with depth who appreciated GOOD music, and as someone who was a musican
I am not sure how many times I have listened to this while studying! It takes me places and makes me feel like I am light as a leaf flowing in the wind! I am inspired to do a blogpost using this composition!
I swear to god this is the most beautiful strings composition ever created. I just wish I could listen to the part where it goes high treble clef without having a panic attack...
Great version, no hurry to end it. The performance is subtle and harmonious, one creature, living and breathing instead of a group of individuals performing their tasks.
The Finality of Existence, the music so portrays and I for feeling it with him. But not in the throws of a casket having flowers tossed to morn death but in the mist of life. In the Beggar on the street corner with a sign asking for a cup of coffee, and I couldn't stop to comply in traffic with my coffee cup full. In the Battered Wife and the Battered Husband making sense of love. In the Couple vowing everlasting Love and the 1st Kiss. In the Drug user dying before his/her next fix on a street corner. A warm embrace from a friend you never met before. A Stranger warming up to share a painful moment. The Divorce from a work place or a Lover Riding the same wave of Rejection. School Children laughing at a handicap person trying to walk, trying to read and talking funny. The Finality of Existence maybe was what he was feeling when he wrote this Passionate Love Piece. And we can only cuddle up to it, warming the mortality of our everyday existence. That is if we are lucky enough to feel sometimes, the soul hardened by the stench of death, murders and acts of Violence. The Finality of existence as we breathe a new breath each day.......Yes, music can stimulate DNA activation...look for 432hz music here on ytube. good reading too. Love, Light and Peace.
If i´m not wrong, a part of this piece is played upon the death of Crixus or Spartacus in the series Spartacus: War of the Damned. So yeah, I imagine the same you do
+Abdullah .m Alfi Damn, I was thinking EXACTLY that, I can imagine the guys crying in their destroyed city, but they are muted, you only hear this music
Every time I hear this song I think of the end of Platoon with Charlie Sheen in the helicopter gazing into the rising sun. Great movie and great musical piece by the way
So beautiful and an amazing composition. It's SO tonal but it sounds just like the time it came from, the middle of the 20th century, decades after the Rite of Spring and Pierre Lunaire.
This live 10 minute version is the benchmark against which all others are judged. Leonard Slatkin 4 days after 9/11/2001, at the BBC Proms, took it even slightly slower (15 seconds slower) than Bernstein. In my opinion both performances are the greatest ever. Toscanini's premiere of the Adagio at 7:13 simply doesn't give the piece its needed depth of expression. Other versions clock in between 8 and 9 minutes.
.. I heard from a music expert (profesional critic and well known background as a teacher in my country) that this score was written during one of his better time of his life: at a holiday trip to a wonderful place, professionally recognized, wealthy, very well loved and still healthy and relatively young,, and this adaggio was the result of thinking about losing all of this, I always liked this score but these history give even more depth and sorrow... I tried to find more information about this without luck.
This songs been in sooo many war movies that all i can think of when listening to this is a battlefield scene; dying people, people bleeding, artillery explosions, tanks driving around :(
I am actually a professional violist by trade, although I am now legally blind and at 57, considered "retired." Music is subjective and this is a surprisingly difficult piece to pull off. It is also a piece used in times of national mourning in many countries. It was played at Princess Grace's funeral long ago, and part of the soundtrack for "Platoon." I was introduced to the piece while in high school, when I won a position in California's All-State Honor Orchestra of 1973, We played this.
L'Adagio pour cordes provient d'un mouvement de son quatuor à cordes no 1, Op. 11, composé en 1936. Il suit un premier mouvement brutal et très différent, et précède une courte reprise de cette musique. En janvier 1938, Barber envoya le morceau à Arturo Toscanini. Le chef d'orchestre rendit la partition sans commentaire, et Barber, vexé, évita de le revoir. Toscanini lui envoya alors un mot par le biais d'un ami, disant qu'il envisageait de jouer l'œuvre et qu'il la lui avait rendue parce qu'il l'avait déjà mémorisée. L'arrangement de Barber lui-même pour orchestre à cordes fut créé par Arturo Toscanini avec l'orchestre symphonique de la NBC le 5 novembre 1938 à New York. Le compositeur arrangea aussi le morceau en 1967 pour un chœur de huit chanteurs, sous forme d'Agnus Dei. Source : Wikipedia.
Samuel Barber has touched the Soul of Man with this composition. It captures the depth of my heart's yearning for compassion, for healing, for understanding and for peace. It is both sad and mournful and yet it is also uplifting - representative of the contradictory nature of MAN himself. This is a masterpiece of music that I need to hear periodically to heal my heart and inspire my Soul. Blessings to you Samuel Barber for your talent and gifts.
My father had in his funeral directions for me to have Adagio played at his funeral. He never spoke of it while on earth. Some 8 years later while approaching the Cliffs of Mohrer in Ireland, a single violinist was playing it as we walked to the observation tower. Talk about tears flowing...it was incredible!
How is it that this piece, as is soars ever upwards, reaches into you, your very soul, and literally pulls the most intense emotions from you? A mix of bittersweet sadness and hope, it is the very embodiment of grace. Like the handful of great masterworks in the world, Michelangelo's David, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Adagio must truly be God's hand at work through these gifted geniuses. Now I have to go dry my eyes...
Her my Interpretation : ua-cam.com/video/chLnF6LYjZc/v-deo.html
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there's timeless, beautiful, soul-touching music like this.
A world capable of birthing something this beautiful cannot be all bad.
My absolute favorite piece of classical music. The emotions this brings out are incredible. I feel such pain and sadness in the music. I can only imagine what Barber was feeling when he wrote it. I have my own thoughts when I listen to it. It may sound strange, but sometimes emotional pain or sadness can be a beautiful thing. It makes me feel alive.
love is pain is it not?
I truly was about to cry and yet at the same time, can't help but smile.
Coming from a person who has recovered from amnesia and near post-traumatic stress from losing my loved ones. I only wish to listen to more of these songs because I want to feel the emotions, I thought was lost.
Thank you for uploading such a song that should be shared with so much more. You have enlighten me and will confront my anxieties and talk once more to the people who once cared for me but forgotten.
This is one of those pieces of music (and I don't care who your are, or what your "preferences" are) that will make you cry ,or smile, or fall on your knees and curse the skies,or fall on your knees and thank God...it just elicits that extreme reaction in anyone. A Great Composition...
It takes me through all the depressing moments in my life. It is very heart touching. If you don't want to be depressed think about flowers, think about friends and family and trust me you will feel happiness and pleasure and freedom. Thank you Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein.
Here my Interpretation: ua-cam.com/video/chLnF6LYjZc/v-deo.html
This piece makes me imagine being at the end of my life and looking back with a great sense of tranquility and sorrow, a bittersweet feeling of content from admiring the beauty and shortness of life. Everything will be okay, everything will be peaceful in the end when all the dust settles, no matter what else happens, just let go and exist. Enjoy it while it lasts.
This is Indeed the best version ever !!!! Bernstein was just a musical genius, and as a conductor without equal. The Orchestra here plays the most beautiful string playing that I ever heard. But ofcorse without skill and a master conductor this wouldn´t be. Here lenny and the Fine Orchestra reaches highs that are seldom reached in this world.
It's such a pity he can't get to see all the new renditions of this song and experience how people vibe to the Trance versions in clubs and stadiums. Would have been magical
Having played this piece so many times, I have to say this is one of my most favorite renditions by Bernstein and it never, never fails to move me. Just magnificent!
Just look at his eyes... there are so many things in it... and you can hear thoose things in the music. Amazing.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed conducted by one of the greatest conductors of all time.
the pause in the crescendo is absolutely perfect. and the use of the strings timeless. it's almost unexplainable, just perfect.
This piece is so beautiful. I want it to be played at my funeral.
This is my fav piece of music. So sublime, so unpretentious.
I listened to this with my father in the hospital room during his last days, (two sets of headphones). He had parkinsons/dementia and was scared 'bout what was happening to him. You should have seen the ecstatic look on his face, his hands as he followed each movement.
My 20yr. old daughter merely thought it "sad." That may be the blindness of youth. I consider it utterly beautiful, uplifting and calming at the same time.
peace.
I can't begin to imagine what you're going through. I'm meaningless really, but this one piece calmed me in many a troubling time. It is a masterpiece, a wonder of music.
One of the greatest pieces (and use of silence) of music ever made.
+Skrakjaw7 Agreed. It is absolutely haunting.
I'm so glad you both said this. This music, on paper,is so stupefying, but this recording in particular is one of those rare and indescribable moments--the kind every musician can recall--that's captured in a recording.
I just wish I knew which ensemble it was... T_T
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I had the pleasure of hearing this live a few months ago, and I was blown away by the simplicity and richness of the composition. It was a remarkable performance by the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. I am so glad to have found this superb recording on UA-cam to keep me happy until I am lucky enough to hear it live again.
If I ever need to see some humanity, I visit some videos of sophisticated and beautiful music, because the fans are truly have the most hospitality and treat one another like people. Thank you all for existing.
Peacefully beautiful. I Wouldn't mind them playing this at my funeral some day.
Finest arrangement of Barber's Adagio for Strings I've ever heard, thank you to Mr. Bernstein.
The sound of mourning has never been captured so well.
So beautiful, so solemn, so peaceful, gets so deep in my soul !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is somehow one of the basis of Soul Music... A Masterpiece which will never be forgotten
Samuel Barber & Leonard Bernstein. Class.
This is one of those songs that is so hard to listen to because it is so emotional but at the same time beautiful to listen to. It gives me chills.
each note will resonate with locations on our dna some of these locations are in deep places they key to human psych
This music will always remind me of my late mom and dad .. sad and beautiful ..
I miss my parents and I always pray that they're in a peaceful place.
I am sure they are in a peaceful place :)
.... a great prayer for humanity ....
.... the soul that speaks with the Divine .....
...... thank you ..... Barber........and.....Great Master Bernstein
Many people know this from the movie Platoon, but it has a history of being played on radio to show respect or sadness. When FDR died in 1945 the US population was in mourning, and radio stations played this all day. Bernstein's interpretation is my favorite, and considered by many to the the best; which is of course a matter of taste.
Just some of US population. Many do not feel a piece of this piece. And by the way who was FDR? This interpretation has nothing to do with the mass feelings or some FDR - Rossevelt ?! Pretty naive conclusion and unncorrect toward Albinoni and Barber. The world had not started with USA. or fdr, pdr, mnr... etc. USA = the classroom for bad pupils - nothing special or glorious like you want to think.
Mrs. Bukvić your comment has no place here. Mr Barrer has inferred nothing remotely close to what you are babbling on about. He was merely doing what most do with music and talk about an event when he first heard this piece or what feeling they get from a piece. Have a good day, enjoy life and seek to see the good in world; for hate and negativity are for the lazy and the intolerant.
Mr. Pistol, it is so good for the world to have "clever" feeling liners to line up us what are the public respect or sadness! Without your kind the rest of world is lost. So, God bless USA dogs and cats!
P.s.Take a walk "sir pistol" and learn to speak in the name of yourself!
And by the way who was FDR?
LMGIFY -- www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-dies
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I listen to this piece very rarely. It is reserved only for the most profound moments.
This. Exactly this.
Today, the funeral of John McCain.
When the power goes out and i only have 15% battery.
Try playing it for 28 hours straight on repeat. Your mind opens up like you wouldn't believe. Your neighbours might react strongly though.
this to me is so incredibly beautiful, so sad ,makes my heart fill up with so much feeling of sadness and love at the same time, it really speaks of a broken heart, loss of something so dear but a need to let those feelings go to let you cry and cleanse your soul
I don’t think there is another masterpiece like this that truly defines a raw emotional moment. While music can tug at your heart, this music is a part of your heart. Simply amazing
So I was in London when the 9/11 attacks happened and the Proms were going on and as a tribute to those who lost their lives the London Philharmonic opened with this piece and it made me cry... But such a majestic piece of music.
Bernstein and Barber were friends. I don't think I've ever heard a more reverently nuanced performance of this adagio.
Completely agree.
Agreed -- the Adagio is beyond beautiful and gets to the meaning, longing and frustrations of life itself. So does Barber's Knoxville Summer1915 and the slow movement of his piano Sonata. He was a master who seemed to write one masterpiece for each musical idiom.
You sir, have chosen words of logic representing the hope of humanity in logical speech eliminating the nonsense of what people tend to listen in these modern days !
it's like that when everything Bernstein conducts. All other conductors should be publically executed for turning classical music into a canned, lifeless, tasteless crap
Written from the composer's heart, this piece really 'hit's' the inner soul, wonderful performance by the orchestra under a brilliant conductor.Beautifully captured by the recording team. Chose this piece to be played at my wifes funeral, along with Pachabell's Cannon, found it very soothing as she was only 40 years old. Thank you for posting this wonderful version.
I would like to share a lovely story, if that's quite alright.
I was at a symphony concert, and a fragile, elderly lady cellist came to announce that she had selected this song in honor of her husband who had recently died, as he was a Doctor of Music.
I was dumbfounded by the music. It took over my soul and I was captivated. I told my mom "I have to play cello."
Long story longer, that very lady called me and told me she would give me a cello and lessons for free. Cello's name is Adagio
This music was on a sentimental family dvd showing dozens of loved ones followed by their tombstones and by the end I was so sad and moved it affected me for weeks,powerful music can do that to you and this is the best with Intermezzo -Mascagni and Once upon a time in the west by Ennio Morricone.
Such glory...Such emotion... Play this when I die..
I totally commented previously, but I keep coming back to this.
They say time is what heals all wounds.
"They" must not know about music....
This fills me with much melancholy but I feel compelled to listen to it in it's entirety. Music truly does touch the soul.
Blessed are they that appreciate all music, for they shall find true masterpieces....
All the times me and my brother went through, doing stuff, going places and getting me stuff until the bitter end of his life. The truth is always in my heart.
i once heard this on repeat for 10 hours straight - in the end i was floating in my mind, every little motion propelled me like a large bird on a strong current - truly a wonderful feeling:)
On a sidenote, it drove my neighbour absolutely bonkers in the end:)
Un adagio meraviglioso!
Grazie Maestro.
I'm not an expert musician. I don't honestly know how every texture is created. Yet, the way I hear some non-musicians talk about music could make many musicians blow a fuse. Just the performance of this alone could bring tears.
Una musica celestiale che tocca nel più profondo l'anima mia!
Condivisione splendida che amo!
Grazie!
This is my favorite Leonard Bernstein work. It is in the movie Lorenzo's Oil and also Platoon. It is Barber's most famous piece and he is an American. So, by am American and conducted by an American. Love it.
Music is the key to everything in life. But the true emotions, love , passion, forgivingnes, and thoghtfulnes like in this piece is rare in any piece today, in all styles of music. This piece here is higher in spirit than life itself. A gift from higher forces to the humainty. A once in a lifetime composition, and the greatest american classical piece in my opinion ever written.
This of classical music is deep and mean full on so many levels it brings fort our fears and thoughts of our comrades of all nationalities thourghout the world who have fallen in battle conflict war and opens our mind to the possibilty that we must preverse world peace for ourselves our kids their childern etc. So take a minute to remember those who have given up their lifes to make the world a safer place to live in and those today who struggle for their freedom no matter the cost.
That was the original purpose of this composition?
To me this is the essence of man standing feet planted firmly on the earth yearning for Creator.
most touching music ever...
How can you not keep your eyes from watering up to this.
The musical work that expresses grief better than words.
Far and Away without comparison the best Barber Adagio EVER!! This is Lennys thing , and it can´t be touched. Breathtaken in it´s beauty and Emotion. A very special version , a so called once in a lifetime take here, like in the presnce of god himself. And such a high class of string playing too!! Bernstein was a phenomenoen, a once in a lifetime gift to this world!!
Soul stirring. Conciousness expanding. Magnifico !
One of my all time favorites. It's in my music library and I love exposing this to others.
me too, it is an unbelievably beautiful piece, and the 1st violin part is amazing to play. I actually want this played at my funeral, so people can remember me as someone with depth who appreciated GOOD music, and as someone who was a musican
I am not sure how many times I have listened to this while studying! It takes me places and makes me feel like I am light as a leaf flowing in the wind!
I am inspired to do a blogpost using this composition!
Timeless and beautiful.
Meravigliosa... La più bella interpretazione che abbia mai sentito di questo adagio
The phenomenal work of Leonard Bernstein touched my heart since I can remember. His talent lives on as long as life itself. Your the best Leonard.
I swear to god this is the most beautiful strings composition ever created. I just wish I could listen to the part where it goes high treble clef without having a panic attack...
I first heard this through William Orbit many years ago. This is a tremendously beautiful song in itself.
Great version, no hurry to end it. The performance is subtle and harmonious, one creature, living and breathing instead of a group of individuals performing their tasks.
Simply magnificent, frees your mind to wonder endless possibilities of emotions.
Exquisite, and reduces me to tears every time.
such a great recording
Love this piece! My music teacher played this in class today and I just about cried. Beautiful!! This truly will bring out your emotions.
A stunning example of an era with more sophisticated and emotional music
I first heart Barber's Adagio for Strings more than 15 years ago on a deserted highway under a sea of stars. It has stuck with me ever since.
If only one thing survives our species/civilisation ... this should be it.
The Finality of Existence, the music so portrays and I for feeling it with him. But not in the throws of a casket having flowers tossed to morn death but in the mist of life. In the Beggar on the street corner with a sign asking for a cup of coffee, and I couldn't stop to comply in traffic with my coffee cup full. In the Battered Wife and the Battered Husband making sense of love. In the Couple vowing everlasting Love and the 1st Kiss. In the Drug user dying before his/her next fix on a street corner. A warm embrace from a friend you never met before. A Stranger warming up to share a painful moment. The Divorce from a work place or a Lover Riding the same wave of Rejection. School Children laughing at a handicap person trying to walk, trying to read and talking funny. The Finality of Existence maybe was what he was feeling when he wrote this Passionate Love Piece. And we can only cuddle up to it, warming the mortality of our everyday existence. That is if we are lucky enough to feel sometimes, the soul hardened by the stench of death, murders and acts of Violence. The Finality of existence as we breathe a new breath each day.......Yes, music can stimulate DNA activation...look for 432hz music here on ytube. good reading too. Love, Light and Peace.
***** MORE????? really???? If he writes anything longer the UA-cam will crash for a month!
So incredibly moving and spiritual.....
such a sad and beautiful piece.
The chords are so beautiful...the part from about 6:00-7:10 always sends chills down my spine...but the entire piece is masterful.
J'ai entendu cet Adagio pour la 1ère fois, à la fin du film "Elephant Man", inoubliable!
Interprétation de Bernstein extraordinaire!
This sound awesome, My soul is weeping.....
When i hear this i imagine a war that has just ended, rain putting down fire and the last few people who just survived.
If i´m not wrong, a part of this piece is played upon the death of Crixus or Spartacus in the series Spartacus: War of the Damned. So yeah, I imagine the same you do
+Abdullah .m Alfi Yes. I always listen to this on Nov. 11.
+iMyZticx It's also the theme from the movie, Platoon.
+Abdullah .m Alfi Damn, I was thinking EXACTLY that, I can imagine the guys crying in their destroyed city, but they are muted, you only hear this music
+Abdullah .m Alfi Great thoughts ...
Profoundly beautiful Adagio
Oh, the joy of being a cellist in this piece...
Every time I hear this song I think of the end of Platoon with Charlie Sheen in the helicopter gazing into the rising sun. Great movie and great musical piece by the way
So beautiful and an amazing composition. It's SO tonal but it sounds just like the time it came from, the middle of the 20th century, decades after the Rite of Spring and Pierre Lunaire.
Just happened to be listening to this and reading at the same time and... the moods match so perfectly It is undescribable.
Been a fan since I 1st heard it in '68 on a compilation album....I was 11.
This piece captures my mood today, November 9, 2016.
we had a string quartet play this at my father's funeral...
My condolences. I wouldn't be able to make it through.
This live 10 minute version is the benchmark against which all others are judged. Leonard Slatkin 4 days after 9/11/2001, at the BBC Proms, took it even slightly slower (15 seconds slower) than Bernstein. In my opinion both performances are the greatest ever. Toscanini's premiere of the Adagio at 7:13 simply doesn't give the piece its needed depth of expression. Other versions clock in between 8 and 9 minutes.
It was my first time to hear this piece and I was very touched by this deep music. It is a very peacefull musi
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wow!!!
we are going to play this tomorrow in my orchestra for a competition
i'm so excited because it such a beautiful piece!!!!!
.. I heard from a music expert (profesional critic and well known background as a teacher in my country) that this score was written during one of his better time of his life: at a holiday trip to a wonderful place, professionally recognized, wealthy, very well loved and still healthy and relatively young,, and this adaggio was the result of thinking about losing all of this, I always liked this score but these history give even more depth and sorrow... I tried to find more information about this without luck.
This songs been in sooo many war movies that all i can think of when listening to this is a battlefield scene;
dying people, people bleeding, artillery explosions, tanks driving around :(
Such beauty.....when I leave this Earth would love to have this be the last music I hear.....
I am actually a professional violist by trade, although I am now legally blind and at 57, considered "retired." Music is subjective and this is a surprisingly difficult piece to pull off. It is also a piece used in times of national mourning in many countries. It was played at Princess Grace's funeral long ago, and part of the soundtrack for "Platoon." I was introduced to the piece while in high school, when I won a position in California's All-State Honor Orchestra of 1973, We played this.
I have just lost a student. This music profoundly allows me to grieve
Thank you for sharing with me. It's a beautiful composition.
How can you dislike this?
L'Adagio pour cordes provient d'un mouvement de son quatuor à cordes no 1, Op. 11, composé en 1936. Il suit un premier mouvement brutal et très différent, et précède une courte reprise de cette musique.
En janvier 1938, Barber envoya le morceau à Arturo Toscanini. Le chef d'orchestre rendit la partition sans commentaire, et Barber, vexé, évita de le revoir. Toscanini lui envoya alors un mot par le biais d'un ami, disant qu'il envisageait de jouer l'œuvre et qu'il la lui avait rendue parce qu'il l'avait déjà mémorisée. L'arrangement de Barber lui-même pour orchestre à cordes fut créé par Arturo Toscanini avec l'orchestre symphonique de la NBC le 5 novembre 1938 à New York.
Le compositeur arrangea aussi le morceau en 1967 pour un chœur de huit chanteurs, sous forme d'Agnus Dei.
Source : Wikipedia.
Un chef d'oeuvre total !
The Rite of Spring, classical music's masterpiece in rhythm, meter, and tonality.
i'm not crying, you're crying
You have to cry with this piece.
just the damn onions! piece of onion.
Are you a piece of vegetable Mrs.?
Hella Average you are so crying
I think we all are.