It's interesting. As someone who struggles with major depression, the thing is you don't feel anything. Quite the opposite of how depression is misunderstood as sorrow or grief. You don't feel anything but the enormous unimportance of existance and life. An entire universe swolloen with nothing and encircled by very dim horizons. THIS music, including its moments of astounding grace brings me back to life, feeling and green spring after rain. I revisit it now and then just for that.
@@EAZYED420 I also always cry when I hear this adagio, because I remember my closest loved one - my brother, two years younger than I, who died alone in his 30s in a terrible highway accident. I cry in awe of Samuel Barber's genius in conveying that pain and grief with musical notes alone, no words needed. It is a beautiful and perfect piece of music.
First time my wife heard this was when we walked into a church in Rome. A string orchestra was rehearsing and started playing the Adagio. We stood rapt. The acoustics were incredible. My wife cried like a baby. One of our favorite memories of our marriage.
We had this played at our wedding (before the movie). It filled us with such emotion, love and prayers for the future. My beloved passed away in my arms a few months ago after 37 yrs of marriage. This will forever be ours.
Condolences to you but well wishes for your wonderful 37 yrs. He will be in your arms again. That is our Lord's promise. Music is God's gift to us...along with many others.
@@bronxboy47 You are probably correct. Things don't change much over the years. I have to wonder if he EVER found any personal happiness during his lifetime.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger - something better, pushing right back."
This is Samuel Barber's masterpiece--his exquisitely beautiful, hauntingly stirring work recognized throughout the world. It has been played repeatedly during national times of mourning, e.g., the funerals of FDR and Einstein, after the assassination of JFK, and after 9/11. When I'm feeling particularly sad, I listen to my favorite recording of this Adagio (Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony). Remarkably, after I have my good cry, I do feel better afterward and am reminded once more of Barber's extraordinary talent. I often think to myself, 'How fortunate we are to be able to listen to such breathtakingly stunning music.' Of note, Barber composed this when he was just 26.
For days this adagio has been playing daily at Puerta del Sol in Madrid. It is a tribute to the thousands of people killed by the Covid19. Hopefully the peace that this adagio transmits will comfort all loved ones of the deseased.
1 year ago when I was 15. I lost my grandmother when covid struck. My family weren't able to attend her own funeral because of quarantine. This piece reminds me of her so much, and how much she is in my heart. I love you grandma, you're my star ❤
Un anima che ha scelto il sacrificio per l'altro....riposa in pace 🙏 che la sua rinascita in un piano diverso sia ricca di ogni bene, sorridi e gioisci pensando a lei, e lei godrà di questo tuo amore.
Such a brave and courageous thing to share. You already know far more than you need to about what matters in a lifetime. And if you ever lose your way…return here to this music. You’ll snap right back to where you belong. Best to you, and yours.
When someone we care about,dies, it’s just their body that dies. Everything you learned from them and by being with them, Is their gift to you. These gifts from them stay with you as long as you live. Now you have the chance to teach other people about the useful things you learned.
There are some wonderful videos with a cappella chorus, "Agnus Dei," with one mesmerizing from the Vlaams Radio Koor in Brussels. I do eternity with this composition, vocal or string.
@Svetlana Abramova That is until we utterly destroy it as we've been doing quite regularly on the Earth for a few millenia. Eternity is a concept for children. :/
I've lived a shitty life, abused, neglected, beaten every day. Mom was an Alcoholic and dad was in prison. Many Boarding homes, Many times, I put the rope around my neck. This piece brought me back. This 2019 struggle is so real, I'll keep fighting, for what it's worth. Many days-I really am ready to give up......
We're sorry to hear about your struggles, and hope you find the support and help you need. Thanks for listening to our music; we are happy to share and help you on your way.
You're not alone, Allan. And despite every abuse that you've had to endure and overcome, here you remain... an earnest, introspective being... a light still flickering in such times of darkness. You are not alone, my friend. You/we/others are a testament to a Universal spirit that defies circumstances, challenges, heartache... deep inside is knowing, perhaps unconscious, but a knowing nonetheless that our existence is greater than just this life, and that peace and meaning to our struggles will one come to us, in this life or beyond. Find one thing to be grateful for each day and write it down. Godspeed, my friend.
The movie Platoon was my first exposure to this extraordinary work, it also took me back to Viet Nam and strangely reminded me of the mood swings following a major firefight. It was a time to reflect on what happened. It was horror beyond anything I could ever have imagined. The noise, the screams, the sounds of battle have left me but the memories will always be there. This beautiful piece of music takes all those horrible moments away and soothes my soul. It's like as a child you have a nightmare and your Mom comes in and stroke your head telling you not to worry it was just a bad dream. Then it is alright and you go back to sleep. I've asked that this be played at my funeral.
I confess, I'd never heard this piece until I saw Platoon in the cinema. The music hit me like a ton of bricks, every hair on my body stood up.30 years later and after countless times listening, it still brings a tear to my eye every time I play it. Utterly brilliant!
Me, too. I was ~ 25 then. I enjoyed classical music, but casually. Beethoven and Brahms, mostly, their symphonies and concertos. That's about it. It's near 50 years later for me, and my taste for the classics has broadened, quite a bit. This piece was one of those that sent me off on my quest for more.
I had heard it before Platoon but couldn't remember where until i watched again 'The Elephant Man',right at the end when he had finished making the matchstick model of the church next door to the hospital where he was staying.
@@bernardholdsworth2171 This was played several dozen times on TV, in the week following the JFK murder. I asked around, and no-one knew what it was. About twenty-five years later I heard it on Elephant Man and caught it on the credits. I'm now 77. First heard at 16.
I first heard this a few years ago. I was a delivery driver and had to pull over. I could not stop crying. This tugs hard at my heart strings. The only song to ever make me cry.
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings is possibly the most beautiful melody ever written. It touches me like no other melody I have ever heard. I feel my soul levitating, lifting up, floating above the petty, mundane and inconsequential things in life. I surrender my mind, my spirit my soul. I focus on the Eternal every time I listen to it. This melody, I believe, is the result of a true moment of Divine Inspiration.
Me he preguntado en alguna ocasión que llevó a Samuel Barber a componer esta melodía delicada, triste y de una inmensa belleza. Parece inspirada por algo espiritual, mágico.
Certainly in the top 10 for me. May I suggest a choral piece? Written in the 1600s, it is called "Miserere Mei, Deus by the Oxford College Choir.....exquisite, ethereal.
The performance of Adagio for Strings is nothing short of a sacred event. Holy. The audience rapt and silent. The musicians who work so hard to create this beautiful piece. Barber who poured himself into it. So beautiful in it’s sadness.
This reminds me of the sadness inside a truly beautiful person that I know who unfortunately failed to see their own internal and external beauty. It is haunting and beautiful, filled with deep pain. It has to be the best piece ever composed.
My dad loved this song . When he passed away we played it at his funeral. It's now my favorite song to listen to. Very peaceful . Makes me feel like he's with me . When I close my eye's.
Music is the antidote to, well everything. I fought MDD for about 50 yrs, starting in high school. If I hadn't studied and played Classical piano, I would not have survived.
My late father served in Vietnam with the USAF. I associate this music with him bc of the movie “ Platoon.” 23 years after his passing and every single time I hear this it makes me emotional. Just typing this with it playing in the background is enough. I don’t think I’ll ever get over loosing my father at a young age and can only hope that I live long enough for my daughters to grow up and have their own lives and for me to see them grow. This music forever connects me to him it comforts me and I feel him when I hear it.
God does not create wars, men greed and evil does. Remember God gave us free will to choose, we are destroying everything. Read the book of Genesis. I’ll pray that God gives you understanding of his word. God wants the best for us as we are his creation however the devil is also very much in this world. No doubt about that!🙏🏾
I grew up listening to opera and classical music thanks to my dear father. This music gets into your soul. You can almost taste it. So emotional. Rest in peace dad, thank you for the music. ❤
I like many people first experienced this truly incredible piece of music through the movie Platoon. Here I sit almost 37 years later and the incredible music still brings me to tears everytime I hear it. As a Canadian, we did not experience the horrible tragedy that was the Vietnam War and the terrible toll it played on the American soldiers who had to fight the war and how it tore America apart. I hope this incredible piece of music brings peace to those who suffered through the war both directly and indirectly and that we remember how truly great pieces of art inspire and move us a civilization to all we can be as humans. I am a rocker at heart but classical music has always inspired far different emotions in me and there is no piece of music of any genre that has truly had the ability to move me more than this incredible piece of music. I truly believe if you are not moved by this song and the incredible playing of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, I fear you may have already shuffled off from this mortal coil. To all of you who view and are moved by this incredible piece of music, I wish you all lives full of happiness, joy and love and as I will do, please to my darling wife, when it is time to put my ashes out to sea that this be the piece of music that accompanies my movement into whatever the next life brings.
War and death are human and they are part of our lifes. Currently you can see what happens when there is no more war and less deaths. Overpopulation is the result of peaceful times. Even if we are emotionally stable because of peace, you need war and death to stabilize the population in order to control the social disaster that will rain down upon us one day if we continue this current path.
A wonderful friend of mine had this played at the funeral of her little son Joshua, he fell asleep and died quietly in her arms aged 2, without warning. It absolutely rips the tears from me in seconds. Blessings little Joshua.
This shows the human condition. Unparralled. The most human song I've ever heard. Encapsalates what it means to be a human, perfectly. Thank you Samuel Barber!
@@msdsecretary8702 ...are you 12 years old? You sound like it? Isn't that too young to have a baby?...well actually probably normal in your family. Bye bye!
Steven Tyers You know what - i bet he does. I lost my dad and my grandad on the same day shortly after my 4th birthday. 53 years later i still miss them every day. Blessings.
The first time I heard this song, the hair on my body stood straight up and I was frozen in my steps. Such beauty deserves honor. This piece turned me toward classical music, and I have managed to find some lovely, lovely pieces. But none compare to this masterpiece.
How about: The second movement Adagio from Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony and the third movement Adagio from his 8th? The fourth movement Adagio from Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony, as well as the Adagio Finale from his 3rd, the Adagietto from his 5th and the Andante from his 6th? The third movement Romanza from Ralph Vaughan William's 5th Symphony? The entire Third Symphony of Henryk Gorecki?
The first time I heard it was on clip on the 911 world trade center jumpers.I was mesmerized.Looked high and low for it till I got the orchestra playing it.
I assume you're referring to that movie which was Oliver Stone's directorial breakout, and is widely-regarded as both a definitive Vietnam War movie **and** a definitive '80s movie? The one which turned out to be a masterclass in dramatic acting, executed by a cast positively dense with both "A-List" talent (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker) and journeyman character actors (Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Francesco Quinn, Tony Todd) but didn't know it yet? The same one that accumulated stacks of awards and recognition, and credited with kick-starting an arguably overdue national dialogue on the sociopolitical ramifications of America's deeply troubled/flawed foray into Southeast Asia.... ...and which I invariably think of each and **every single time** I hear "Adagio For Strings" (or as I called it prior to learning it's real name: "that Platoon song,") because it book-ends the movie so perfectly you'd think it was composed specifically for it? Yeah, I remember that. ;-) I also remember seeing it in the interim between the day I formally enlisted in the Marine Corps, and the day I left for Parris Island.
@@frenchandaluz George Delerue AdorE Barber, entre autre. Platoon est de ses meilleurs scores Hollywoodien. Si tu aime regarde aussi ses compositions pour Truffaut et Godard.
Yes. until I again saw "Platoon" recently, for the first time in probably nearly 20 years, I did not realize "Adagio for Strings" was in the soundtrack. (Rather, at that time, I was not familiar with the piece.)
I hear the cries of 58,000 young warriors that never had an opportunity to marry, walk their daughter down the aisle, to hold their first child, I did, I'm a survivor. There isn't a day that goes by I don't think of the War I survived, the men I knew and experiences I'll never forget. This is their music for us to remember.
If you genuinely want to appreciate this piece by Barbor, watch the movie 'Platoon' by Oliver Stone...again. The Adagio is soundtracked throughout the film and adds a powerful, passionate lens to the mayhem of war.
My heart simply breaks into pieces hearing this music. I was a dancer and for every note I saw the choreography...from life, to trauma, to death, to peace, to glory....
There’s no other piece of music that so vividly scores my victories and defeats in life … a true push/pull of emotions that haunt and elate at the same time🥹
5:12-5:56 always makes me cry. The rising tension in this section has so much despair overflowing that it feels as if a breakdown of the soul is imminent
How can anyone play this without sobbing their eyes out? This is the most touching piece of music ever written. Especially coming from Detroit where everything is falling apart.
Me : I refuse, You're THE Doctor, Doctor WHO !!! HELP ME !!! Doctor : I can't, You're a fixed point in the Univers. I can't do anything. Me : NOOOOOOOOOOOO Doctore : Don't be afraid. Your endlife is necessary to begin a new era of human peace. With your death, a new human cycle will born and a beautiful way and adventure will begin for the humanity throught the Univers. You dead will inspired myriad of generations to fight for freedom and egality !!! In future, you name will be synonym of.... What happens ? Me : argghhhhhhhhhh ..... @#%£ dead Doctor : Damned, he's dead before I finish my explanation.
Today marks the first day I ever heard this song, and while I thought it expressed sadness my significant other believed it expressed hopefulness and a new beginning. Nonetheless no matter how you perceive this piece, we can agree that it's full of emotion and beauty
MarkGTR - So beautiful. Everytime i hear this the movie platoon pops into my head as it was played when William Dafoe was was being chansed out of the jungle. A song and scene i will never forget.
A truly 'magnificent' performance by a group of superb musicians. It's 2:00am in the morning and I am thoroughly enjoying Barber's superb composition. This work is beautifully structured and the melodic and harmonic content is pure joy for the ear to behold. I can listen to this work over and over again and never tire of it's wonder and grace. It speaks to the finer qualities of humanity in this time when we have individuals in our country that represent the opposite of excellence. Truly, this work excels in all aspects of brilliance.
This beautiful Samuel Barber Adagio in Memory of 10 months your funeral was my beloved child Pietro Orlando...R.I.P. in Heaven my dear little Angel. Dad sad Ciro Orlando.....Thanks DSO and UA-cam.
PLEASE let us NEVER LOSE CLASSICAL MUSIC Granted writing the score for such masterpieces is extremely difficult, but the reward is shear HEAVEN! Thank ALL of you ARTISTS for keeping this ALIVE!
This piece changed my teachers life made her become the great violinist and teacher that she is today. I’ve heard this piece but never paid it any attention as I prefer upbeat jumpy. After she had explained to me how it so profoundly changed her life I started listening, been listening for days now on repeat. I understand.
So melancholy...breaks ones heart..music goes on and on making one cry for the lost ones...for the bygone days...for everything one couldn't achieve in life...ultimately the soul finds peace! Beautiful piece of music!
It gives us a space to meet again, to introspect ourselves to meditate, cry, pray, self-improve and be better, to think that we are not eternal and that everything ends, sometimes without warning. If we are still alive ... Covid-19, 27-03-2020.
years ago...when I was a single parent....living in an old broken down trailer out in the woods of south Georgia [USA] I used to blast this out in the woods every so often ....I was broke and barely making ends meet.... I felt like every time I played this that Jehovah would hear my sadness....it is my favorite piece of music as well....Lisa
It is a comfort to know that your situational poverty did not prevent you from appreciating this beautiful piece of music. And that you occasionally shared it with the wild creatures living around your modest home in the wilds of southern Georgia is an added bonus. Hope you are doing much better these days.
I hope, Lisa, that circumstances are much better for you now. Bless you and doesn't it help to know that music can help sustain us, even in the darkest times? Obviously you have many friends on here, including me.
This is one of my favorite pieces of music. It tugs at my soul; it speaks to my very being. I am an organist/keyboardist. I was the organist for my grandmother’s funeral. This is one of the things I played on the pipe organ for her service.
And in times of private mourning, as now when our family mourns the loss of a granddaughter who died after four months in the womb. We miss and love you, baby Margaret.
I definitely remember that. I had recently completed college and had a small black and white TV. They showed JFK's birth date and that particular date while the music kept playing.
Karen King Wow!! Didn't know that either!! Jesus Christ thiis piece has been used for a lot of mournful situations (including deaths of famous presidents)
mum I love you so much ,I did everything I could ,words cannot say ,put on your lippy ,and rest in peace, I love you so much and will never forget you Al xx
I saw and heard this piece played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2007. Being a novice of classical music, I had no idea who Barber was, nor the name of this piece. Sure, I'd heard it in various movies, but to see and hear it live.. OMG.. Close your eyes.. sit back, breathe a deep sigh.. if you're not moved, I mean transported, than you are not alive.
Adam Trombino Chicago Symphony one of the best, brings back of my years studying music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago during seventies to eighties!!!
This music is so so so sad 😭😭😭😢 💔 my daughter was found deceased by the Police at Christmas and I came across this music wow started crying 😭😭😢 💔 miss you love you Caroline ❤️ love mum.xxx
When I was a kid, I always fast forwarded the Platoon VHS tape to the end. Just to hear this masterpiece. It always calmed me down. This is definately the song to be played at my funeral.
Rico this song was on my answering machine thirty years ago. Every day this guy would have to call me to give me his order for the next day. One afternoon I didn’t answer and the machine picked up. After he recorded his order, he said he called back three times just to hear it.
This turns at the screaming soul of every man and woman who faces battle. It is desperately speaking to my beloved loved one while my heart cries infinitely. It expresses my inner belonging. It makes me believe in my grandfather's soul. When my soul cried, that's the sound I listened. We should all listen to this and cry. 0:00-8:50 moved me to remembering the battles of my heart's soul.
Thank you for the gorgeous interpretation (and a tempo that actually makes sense, according to Barber’s score, with all its urgent and meditative yearning).
Years ago as i listened to that tune for the 1st time, i felt very emotional and tears began running down my cheeks, sat down on the sofa nearby and listened to the whole piece... How nice it was ! Every now and then, I listen to it and retrieve the same emotions as those i then felt. There are times when you come back to the basics, this is one major to me.
There is nothing like it. A simply phenomenal composition that is timeless. If this does not move one's heart/emotions...nothing will. Superbly conducted and performed. Bravo Zulu!
It's interesting. As someone who struggles with major depression, the thing is you don't feel anything. Quite the opposite of how depression is misunderstood as sorrow or grief. You don't feel anything but the enormous unimportance of existance and life. An entire universe swolloen with nothing and encircled by very dim horizons. THIS music, including its moments of astounding grace brings me back to life, feeling and green spring after rain. I revisit it now and then just for that.
Beautifully put, Matt.
I know what you're talking about. All the best.
I totally understand and agree x
Your comment really resonates so much with me. I feel exactly the same way.
All the best, Mat!
This was my late wife's favorite piece of music, It has been 34 years, and I miss her so much each and every day!
Rest in peace my love!
I felt so sad reading your comment... Hope this beautiful piece of music can ease the pain
My late husband's, too.
34 years without? :(
Merci beaucoup
I hope you meet again one day
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed.
I always cry when i hear this..and i really dont know why
@@EAZYED420 I also always cry when I hear this adagio, because I remember my closest loved one - my brother, two years younger than I, who died alone in his 30s in a terrible highway accident. I cry in awe of Samuel Barber's genius in conveying that pain and grief with musical notes alone, no words needed. It is a beautiful and perfect piece of music.
Toni Merflag: Sorry for your loss. There's peace on earth.
Ya....reckon you could write a movie bout this song
@@tonimerflag8793 God bless you.
This is my Father's favorite piece, and also mine. He passed away a month ago and this piece always brought both of us to tears. Now just me.
He is still with you - all around you. Never forget that.
He loves you and will always be with you . Take comfort in that .
I have advanced cancer and this gives me peace.
rip
Bless you
Hi are you still here
For my angel, Caroline Kent, who died July 14, 2018 at 7:14 a.m. in my arms. Caroline, our love will last forever. Wait for me, I am coming to you.
:( My kitty passed in my arms. I'll forever miss Gidget.
Unconditional love is always the hardest to let go of. Blessings to you and Gidget.@@NinjaSushi2
I’m truly deeply sorry for your loss...
R.I.P for Her I am sorry for Your lost.It is true LOVE. You must wait on Her.
@@NinjaSushi2 😢🙏🏼♥️
First time my wife heard this was when we walked into a church in Rome. A string orchestra was rehearsing and started playing the Adagio. We stood rapt. The acoustics were incredible. My wife cried like a baby. One of our favorite memories of our marriage.
Sounds like heaven........ a wonderful moment. I still have faith in humanity!
lucky guy
Boy - Why strange? They had good taste. Good art is universal.
Wow! What an experience! 😁
Memories like that are incredibly priceless.
@Boy Freitag : the beautiful music is independent from the nationality of composer.
My brother died in a plane crash Jan 23, 2009 and the following Good Friday this was on the radio. I will never forget the anguish I felt.
Te acompaño en el sentimiento por tan trágica pérdida.
Very sad, I'm sorry to hear this. Have peace, God bless.
😭
We had this played at our wedding (before the movie). It filled us with such emotion, love and prayers for the future. My beloved passed away in my arms a few months ago after 37 yrs of marriage. This will forever be ours.
May his memory be eternal
I hope you are coping now some time has passed ❤
Condolences to you but well wishes for your wonderful 37 yrs. He will be in your arms again. That is our Lord's promise. Music is God's gift to us...along with many others.
Magnificent, awe inspiring and deeply soul moving.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music that has ever been written. I don't know how anyone could hear it and not be struck to their core.
I wonder how a composer can reach deep down in his soul and come up with something like this. Haunting, mournful and beautiful all at the same time.
Greg H: Could it be from the pain and suffering experienced as a member of a group vehemently despised by so many? Yes, Barber was gay.
@@bronxboy47 You are probably correct. Things don't change much over the years. I have to wonder if he EVER found any personal happiness during his lifetime.
So profund, Greg. It really touches the Soul.
profound
It is very easy...all musicians are mere vehicles from the creator...
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger - something better, pushing right back."
This is Samuel Barber's masterpiece--his exquisitely beautiful, hauntingly stirring work recognized throughout the world. It has been played repeatedly during national times of mourning, e.g., the funerals of FDR and Einstein, after the assassination of JFK, and after 9/11. When I'm feeling particularly sad, I listen to my favorite recording of this Adagio (Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony). Remarkably, after I have my good cry, I do feel better afterward and am reminded once more of Barber's extraordinary talent. I often think to myself, 'How fortunate we are to be able to listen to such breathtakingly stunning music.' Of note, Barber composed this when he was just 26.
For days this adagio has been playing daily at Puerta del Sol in Madrid. It is a tribute to the thousands of people killed by the Covid19. Hopefully the peace that this adagio transmits will comfort all loved ones of the deseased.
:(
🙏🙌❤😔
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Seems like a good goal
Yeah, the song has nothing to do with Covid 19. Nice try though.
1 year ago when I was 15. I lost my grandmother when covid struck. My family weren't able to attend her own funeral because of quarantine. This piece reminds me of her so much, and how much she is in my heart. I love you grandma, you're my star ❤
Un anima che ha scelto il sacrificio per l'altro....riposa in pace 🙏 che la sua rinascita in un piano diverso sia ricca di ogni bene, sorridi e gioisci pensando a lei, e lei godrà di questo tuo amore.
Such a brave and courageous thing to share. You already know far more than you need to about what matters in a lifetime.
And if you ever lose your way…return here to this music. You’ll snap right back to where you belong.
Best to you, and yours.
It
When someone we care about,dies, it’s just their body that dies.
Everything you learned from them and by being with them,
Is their gift to you.
These gifts from them stay with you as long as you live.
Now you have the chance to teach other people about the
useful things you learned.
An endless, enlightened-mournful melody. The great Requiem of the 20th century. Samuel Barber managed to write something that belongs to eternity
There are some wonderful videos with a cappella chorus, "Agnus Dei," with one mesmerizing from the Vlaams Radio Koor in Brussels. I do eternity with this composition, vocal or string.
@@hwh1946 Thanks for bringing up this gem. All the best to you.
Nail on the head. Has a beautiful sadness to it
@Svetlana Abramova That is until we utterly destroy it as we've been doing quite regularly on the Earth for a few millenia. Eternity is a concept for children. :/
Well said! A piece which somehow manages to encapsulate all of the tragedies of the past century, and yet gives ultimate hope.
I've lived a shitty life, abused, neglected, beaten every day. Mom was an Alcoholic and dad was in prison. Many Boarding homes, Many times, I put the rope around my neck. This piece brought me back. This 2019 struggle is so real, I'll keep fighting, for what it's worth. Many days-I really am ready to give up......
We're sorry to hear about your struggles, and hope you find the support and help you need. Thanks for listening to our music; we are happy to share and help you on your way.
You're not alone, Allan. And despite every abuse that you've had to endure and overcome, here you remain... an earnest, introspective being... a light still flickering in such times of darkness. You are not alone, my friend. You/we/others are a testament to a Universal spirit that defies circumstances, challenges, heartache... deep inside is knowing, perhaps unconscious, but a knowing nonetheless that our existence is greater than just this life, and that peace and meaning to our struggles will one come to us, in this life or beyond. Find one thing to be grateful for each day and write it down. Godspeed, my friend.
Don't give up....listen to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata first movement for piano.
Malcolm Shaw whoa we are one in the same. just listened to that before this.
@@brainrussell6811 I'm still am here....I appreciate your words, Thank you so much....
The movie Platoon was my first exposure to this extraordinary work, it also took me back to Viet Nam and strangely reminded me of the mood swings following a major firefight. It was a time to reflect on what happened. It was horror beyond anything I could ever have imagined. The noise, the screams, the sounds of battle have left me but the memories will always be there. This beautiful piece of music takes all those horrible moments away and soothes my soul. It's like as a child you have a nightmare and your Mom comes in and stroke your head telling you not to worry it was just a bad dream. Then it is alright and you go back to sleep. I've asked that this be played at my funeral.
My mother played this fabulous music with her violin......and i continue to listen It in her memory.
Cómo me gustaría poderlo hacer yo tienes mucha suerte de poder recordar una cosa así tan bella.Saludos
I love her already ❤
Makes me cry every time ,what a wonderful piece of music
I confess, I'd never heard this piece until I saw Platoon in the cinema. The music hit me like a ton of bricks, every hair on my body stood up.30 years later and after countless times listening, it still brings a tear to my eye every time I play it. Utterly brilliant!
Me, too. I was ~ 25 then. I enjoyed classical music, but casually. Beethoven and Brahms, mostly, their symphonies and concertos. That's about it. It's near 50 years later for me, and my taste for the classics has broadened, quite a bit. This piece was one of those that sent me off on my quest for more.
house/ trance version is better
I had heard it before Platoon but couldn't remember where until i watched again 'The Elephant Man',right at the end when he had finished making the matchstick model of the church next door to the hospital where he was staying.
Me too
@@bernardholdsworth2171 This was played several dozen times on TV, in the week following the JFK murder. I asked around, and no-one knew what it was. About twenty-five years later I heard it on Elephant Man and caught it on the credits. I'm now 77. First heard at 16.
I get chills everytime I hear this piece. You all played beautifully. I cannot wait until concert halls open up again. To hear a piece like this.
Michelle Brazil same here.... you should check out the 2nd movement of Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no. 2. That one gives me chills as well
I first heard this a few years ago. I was a delivery driver and had to pull over. I could not stop crying. This tugs hard at my heart strings. The only song to ever make me cry.
I hope it set you free, to believe, to love
😭
Same here w the tears. It's involuntary. Impossibly beautiful music
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings is possibly the most beautiful melody ever written.
It touches me like no other melody I have ever heard. I feel my soul levitating, lifting up, floating above the petty, mundane and inconsequential things in life. I surrender my mind, my spirit my soul. I focus on the Eternal every time I listen to it. This melody, I believe, is the result of a true moment of Divine Inspiration.
Perfect words 🙏🏼
Agreed whole heartedly
I think Hans Zimmer is trying to 'copy' this,but sorry he's not a patch on Barber.
Me he preguntado en alguna ocasión que llevó a Samuel Barber a componer esta melodía delicada, triste y de una inmensa belleza.
Parece inspirada por algo espiritual, mágico.
Certainly in the top 10 for me. May I suggest a choral piece? Written in the 1600s, it is called "Miserere Mei, Deus by the Oxford College Choir.....exquisite, ethereal.
The performance of Adagio for Strings is nothing short of a sacred event. Holy. The audience rapt and silent. The musicians who work so hard to create this beautiful piece. Barber who poured himself into it. So beautiful in it’s sadness.
I know this will annoy some people, but this ineffable beauty comes from the heart and soul of a gay man.
@@bronxboy47 who cares?
@@jeanier12 People denigrated for being gay care. That's who.
The musicians are inspired Truly by the Almighty...
@@bronxboy47 eff them.
This reminds me of the sadness inside a truly beautiful person that I know who unfortunately failed to see their own internal and external beauty. It is haunting and beautiful, filled with deep pain. It has to be the best piece ever composed.
Sara, listen to Vide Cor Meum.... I think you will love it
I couldn’t agree with you more.
I wouldn'd say better💔
My dad loved this song . When he passed away we played it at his funeral. It's now my favorite song to listen to. Very peaceful . Makes me feel like he's with me . When I close my eye's.
It is a tune...not a song.
This piece makes me think that life is not totally worthless, and in pain and suffering, comes the dawn, with fresh hope and optomism
As a person who suffers with bipolar disorder, listening to Barber's Adagio sets my mind at ease, whether I am depressed or myself. !!! 💜✌️🙏
Music is the antidote to, well everything. I fought MDD for about 50 yrs, starting in high school. If I hadn't studied and played Classical piano, I would not have survived.
My late father served in Vietnam with the USAF. I associate this music with him bc of the movie “ Platoon.” 23 years after his passing and every single time I hear this it makes me emotional. Just typing this with it playing in the background is enough. I don’t think I’ll ever get over loosing my father at a young age and can only hope that I live long enough for my daughters to grow up and have their own lives and for me to see them grow. This music forever connects me to him it comforts me and I feel him when I hear it.
I am very sorry to read your message> May God bring peace to you and blessings.
@@aidacontreras1449 Is that the same God that did nothing while those wars were in operation?
God does not create wars, men greed and evil does. Remember God gave us free will to choose, we are destroying everything. Read the book of Genesis. I’ll pray that God gives you understanding of his word.
God wants the best for us as we are his creation however the devil is also very much in this world. No doubt about that!🙏🏾
Playing this full blast, my neighbour smashed my window to get a better listen.
Detroit sympathy orchestra
That will teach you to get double glazing
Let’s just hope Robocop felt the same.
😂 Great comment!
I grew up listening to opera and classical music thanks to my dear father. This music gets into your soul. You can almost taste it. So emotional. Rest in peace dad, thank you for the music. ❤
Catherine Lynch: Your father is always wonderful.
My "spirit" leaves my body and hovers just above me when I "taste" pieces like this. Moving.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written 😢🙏👏
Imposible igualar esta obra de arte musical con su gran carga de tristeza.
Nostalgia .
I like many people first experienced this truly incredible piece of music through the movie Platoon. Here I sit almost 37 years later and the incredible music still brings me to tears everytime I hear it. As a Canadian, we did not experience the horrible tragedy that was the Vietnam War and the terrible toll it played on the American soldiers who had to fight the war and how it tore America apart. I hope this incredible piece of music brings peace to those who suffered through the war both directly and indirectly and that we remember how truly great pieces of art inspire and move us a civilization to all we can be as humans. I am a rocker at heart but classical music has always inspired far different emotions in me and there is no piece of music of any genre that has truly had the ability to move me more than this incredible piece of music. I truly believe if you are not moved by this song and the incredible playing of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, I fear you may have already shuffled off from this mortal coil. To all of you who view and are moved by this incredible piece of music, I wish you all lives full of happiness, joy and love and as I will do, please to my darling wife, when it is time to put my ashes out to sea that this be the piece of music that accompanies my movement into whatever the next life brings.
For me, in eight minutes this piece sums up every human tragedy and sadness since our evolution. War, death, disease, greed and destruction.
And enlightenment, imo
Shaun Deverson yesssssssssss
And, yet, we managed to come up with this masterpiece...
War and death are human and they are part of our lifes. Currently you can see what happens when there is no more war and less deaths. Overpopulation is the result of peaceful times. Even if we are emotionally stable because of peace, you need war and death to stabilize the population in order to control the social disaster that will rain down upon us one day if we continue this current path.
And ignorance
A wonderful friend of mine had this played at the funeral of her little son Joshua, he fell asleep and died quietly in her arms aged 2, without warning.
It absolutely rips the tears from me in seconds.
Blessings little Joshua.
What?? Oh my Lord. HOW did thst happen??
🖤😢
@@curadhan I'm guessing suddenly infant death syndrome.
i am so sorry little joshua died..but dont forget, his with god...may my prayers ease the pain of this loss. godbless you.
This is not good. Loos of someone's son at an early age due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
This piece takes my breath away every time I hear it. Words can't describe the transcendence when I listen to it.
This shows the human condition. Unparralled. The most human song I've ever heard. Encapsalates what it means to be a human, perfectly. Thank you Samuel Barber!
🙌
Frank: Being gay is part of the human condition. Barber was gay, although no one seems to want to mention it in these comments.
No matter how many times I hear this piece I cry. It connects to my soul in an overpowering way from the first 16 bars.
@@msdsecretary8702 ..not wrong there! 100% emo screwed. 🙃
@@msdsecretary8702 I think your baby is crying? I can hear it..
@@msdsecretary8702 ...are you 12 years old? You sound like it? Isn't that too young to have a baby?...well actually probably normal in your family. Bye bye!
I put this on, a couple minutes later my 3 year old son told me he loved me and started to cry. Amazing piece of music.
Steven Tyers
You know what - i bet he does. I lost my dad and my grandad on the same day shortly after my 4th birthday. 53 years later i still miss them every day.
Blessings.
Im sorry to hear that. All the best to you Leon.
Steven Tyers
Blessings.
He must be what we call an 'old-soul'.
Steven Tyers AWW!! How cute!!
The first time I heard this song, the hair on my body stood straight up and I was frozen in my steps. Such beauty deserves honor. This piece turned me toward classical music, and I have managed to find some lovely, lovely pieces. But none compare to this masterpiece.
How about: The second movement Adagio from Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony and the third movement Adagio from his 8th? The fourth movement Adagio from Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony, as well as the Adagio Finale from his 3rd, the Adagietto from his 5th and the Andante from his 6th? The third movement Romanza from Ralph Vaughan William's 5th Symphony? The entire Third Symphony of Henryk Gorecki?
I just sat there...in awe!!!
@@annakimborahpa Add the 3rd movement of Rachmaninov's 2d symphony (as played by Svetlanov)
@@annakimborahpa Add the Ruhevolle from Mahler's 4th (3rd Movement)!
The first time I heard it was on clip on the 911 world trade center jumpers.I was mesmerized.Looked high and low for it till I got the orchestra playing it.
Who remember "Platoon" movie with this magnificent piece of art!!!
I assume you're referring to that movie which was Oliver Stone's directorial breakout, and is widely-regarded as both a definitive Vietnam War movie **and** a definitive '80s movie? The one which turned out to be a masterclass in dramatic acting, executed by a cast positively dense with both "A-List" talent (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker) and journeyman character actors (Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Francesco Quinn, Tony Todd) but didn't know it yet? The same one that accumulated stacks of awards and recognition, and credited with kick-starting an arguably overdue national dialogue on the sociopolitical ramifications of America's deeply troubled/flawed foray into Southeast Asia....
...and which I invariably think of each and **every single time** I hear "Adagio For Strings" (or as I called it prior to learning it's real name: "that Platoon song,") because it book-ends the movie so perfectly you'd think it was composed specifically for it?
Yeah, I remember that. ;-) I also remember seeing it in the interim between the day I formally enlisted in the Marine Corps, and the day I left for Parris Island.
Un film qui m'a fait pleuré avec se chef d'oeuvre comme musique de fond restera en moi pour toujours !
@@frenchandaluz George Delerue AdorE Barber, entre autre. Platoon est de ses meilleurs scores Hollywoodien. Si tu aime regarde aussi ses compositions pour Truffaut et Godard.
Yes. until I again saw "Platoon" recently, for the first time in probably nearly 20 years, I did not realize "Adagio for Strings" was in the soundtrack. (Rather, at that time, I was not familiar with the piece.)
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Yes, I am a Viet Nam vet and I have seen "Platoon" many times. Of course this effects intense emotions!
I hear the cries of 58,000 young warriors that never had an opportunity to marry, walk their daughter down the aisle, to hold their first child, I did, I'm a survivor. There isn't a day that goes by I don't think of the War I survived, the men I knew and experiences I'll never forget. This is their music for us to remember.
Very well said. And thank you for your service.
i hear the cry of millions of innocent people all around the world being massacred by USA
I hear the cry of one whiny bitch blaming the US for the world's problems.
Akisha Soyadi you just had to didn't you.
I hear the power of human creativity and the beauty that we are all a part of. Wonderful.
If you genuinely want to appreciate this piece by Barbor, watch the movie 'Platoon' by Oliver Stone...again. The Adagio is soundtracked throughout the film and adds a powerful, passionate lens to the mayhem of war.
My heart simply breaks into pieces hearing this music. I was a dancer and for every note I saw the choreography...from life, to trauma, to death, to peace, to glory....
Beautifully said!
There’s no other piece of music that so vividly scores my victories and defeats in life … a true push/pull of emotions that haunt and elate at the same time🥹
5:12-5:56 always makes me cry. The rising tension in this section has so much despair overflowing that it feels as if a breakdown of the soul is imminent
Me too!!!! Especially at 05:55
How can anyone play this without sobbing their eyes out? This is the most touching piece of music ever written. Especially coming from Detroit where everything is falling apart.
Well, it's falling part even more now. Unbelievable.
Doctor: You have ten minutes to live
Me:
8 minutes to cry
2 minutes to reflect
Hurry up
And by the way did I tell you barrack what an asshole you are.
Me : I refuse, You're THE Doctor, Doctor WHO !!! HELP ME !!!
Doctor : I can't, You're a fixed point in the Univers. I can't do anything.
Me : NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Doctore : Don't be afraid. Your endlife is necessary to begin a new era of human peace. With your death, a new human cycle will born and a beautiful way and adventure will begin for the humanity throught the Univers. You dead will inspired myriad of generations to fight for freedom and egality !!! In future, you name will be synonym of.... What happens ?
Me : argghhhhhhhhhh ..... @#%£ dead
Doctor : Damned, he's dead before I finish my explanation.
@@majormasjid4038 Tasteful. What a maroon.
In memory of my Grandfather (Ndandy) who passed away 💔 on 15th July 2020
You will forever be in my heart 💓.
I'm so sorry for your loss
I'm so sorry. My your grandad rest in peace
Thank you 🙏
Today marks the first day I ever heard this song, and while I thought it expressed sadness my significant other believed it expressed hopefulness and a new beginning. Nonetheless no matter how you perceive this piece, we can agree that it's full of emotion and beauty
Samuel Barber deftly pulling all our " strings ".
Such a monumental piece of music. So much emotion packed into so few minutes.
Fantastic. The best way to spend 9 minutes
Beyond this earth.
MarkGTR. Of this earth.
MarkGTR - So beautiful. Everytime i hear this the movie platoon pops into my head as it was played when William Dafoe was was being chansed out of the jungle. A song and scene i will never forget.
A prayer for Peace.
Hauntingly beautiful piece of music
@@gwhizz2588. the MAGIC of the Earth...
A truly 'magnificent' performance by a group of superb musicians. It's 2:00am in the morning and I am thoroughly enjoying Barber's superb composition. This work is beautifully structured and the melodic and harmonic content is pure joy for the ear to behold. I can listen to this work over and over again and never tire of it's wonder and grace. It speaks to the finer qualities of humanity in this time when we have individuals in our country that represent the opposite of excellence. Truly, this work excels in all aspects of brilliance.
I was looking for music to express our collective grief...here it is.
I don't know what you're going through but I have tears streaming down my face. My heart goes out to you, what ever your pain is.
Had this played at my dad's funeral in 2018. Absolutely love this and when I visit him I play it so makes me feel closer to him. Lovr you Dad
May his memory be eternal.
@@tohokugirl8144 it is. Thank you
This beautiful Samuel Barber Adagio in Memory of 10 months your funeral was my beloved child Pietro Orlando...R.I.P. in Heaven my dear little Angel. Dad sad Ciro Orlando.....Thanks DSO and UA-cam.
Bless you and Rest in Peace in the Kingdom of Heaven Pietro Orlando
Ciro Orlando: A tough moment when your child passed away.
Dio benedica te e tuo figlio. Un papà. ❤
PLEASE let us NEVER LOSE CLASSICAL MUSIC Granted writing the score for such masterpieces is extremely difficult, but the reward is shear HEAVEN! Thank ALL of you ARTISTS for keeping this ALIVE!
This piece changed my teachers life made her become the great violinist and teacher that she is today. I’ve heard this piece but never paid it any attention as I prefer upbeat jumpy. After she had explained to me how it so profoundly changed her life I started listening, been listening for days now on repeat. I understand.
So melancholy...breaks ones heart..music goes on and on making one cry for the lost ones...for the bygone days...for everything one couldn't achieve in life...ultimately the soul finds peace! Beautiful piece of music!
It gives us a space to meet again, to introspect ourselves to meditate, cry, pray, self-improve and be better, to think that we are not eternal and that everything ends, sometimes without warning. If we are still alive ... Covid-19, 27-03-2020.
years ago...when I was a single parent....living in an old broken down trailer out in the woods of south Georgia [USA] I used to blast this out in the woods every so often ....I was broke and barely making ends meet.... I felt like every time I played this that Jehovah would hear my sadness....it is my favorite piece of music as well....Lisa
God bless you Lisa .........
It is a comfort to know that your situational poverty did not prevent you from appreciating this beautiful piece of music. And that you occasionally shared it with the wild creatures living around your modest home in the wilds of southern Georgia is an added bonus. Hope you are doing much better these days.
Wow, you can tell a story girl. I SAW you after reading this.
I hope, Lisa, that circumstances are much better for you now. Bless you and doesn't it help to know that music can help sustain us, even in the darkest times? Obviously you have many friends on here, including me.
I love this. It's one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, and the Detroit Symphony does it justice.
Dedicate this song which wasn´t from earth to my passed girlfriend, may she live in eternal peace
this music I always think of the ascension of Christ.
Rainer Kroll: Sorry for loss. There's always hope. Peace on earth.
Stunning. Makes me cry everytime. God bless you all for sharing your talent
How does something that simple can so majestically encompasses what it can feel to be human at times ?
The Phrygian mode that’s how 😍
This is one of my favorite pieces of music. It tugs at my soul; it speaks to my very being. I am an organist/keyboardist. I was the organist for my grandmother’s funeral. This is one of the things I played on the pipe organ for her service.
Painfully gorgeous. Very well played, DSO. The genius of Barber.
And in times of private mourning, as now when our family mourns the loss of a granddaughter who died after four months in the womb. We miss and love you, baby Margaret.
We took our best friend on her final journey to this song. Such an emotive piece ❤️
Thank you very much!! It was beautiful! Hugs from Gramado, Brazil for all the musicians!
Life stops for a minute when I listen to this. Truly touches the soul ❤
This piece was widely played on the radio after President Kennedy's assassination that Friday and over the rest of that sad weekend in 1963.
I definitely remember that. I had recently completed college and had a small black and white TV. They showed JFK's birth date and that particular date while the music kept playing.
It was also played on the radio following the announcement of FDR's passing.
John Murphy REALLY??!! Didn't know that now however I did know this piece is mournful
Karen King Wow!! Didn't know that either!! Jesus Christ thiis piece has been used for a lot of mournful situations (including deaths of famous presidents)
After 9/ 11 too.
This Adagio is a sad, peaceful and heartbreaking tune. The most beautiful sound I've ever heard. I need this in my life.
For me it doesn't sound sad but heavenly and indescribable beautyful 💕🌞
At the 5:40 mark, the crescendo, I always weep. Tears streak my face right now. This will be played at my memorial.
Beautiful🌹🌹
mum I love you so much ,I did everything I could ,words cannot say ,put on your lippy ,and rest in peace, I love you so much and will never forget you Al xx
I am so so sorry, know that it’s not your fault and she is still with you in your heart, I hope the piece brings you peace
One of the finest pieces of music ever written! What else can you say?
It's amazing how much emotion can come out of just five different instruments. I'll take a string orchestra over a band any day.
4 instruments actually violin,viola,cello and bass
He dude, as a marching band, we played this on the field and got standing ovations.
@@kentip3444 what marching band show? That sounds like it would be amazing to listen to. Do you have a link?
I not sure about that ,but this is epic .best performance I've heard of this
I saw and heard this piece played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2007. Being a novice of classical music, I had no idea who Barber was, nor the name of this piece. Sure, I'd heard it in various movies, but to see and hear it live.. OMG.. Close your eyes.. sit back, breathe a deep sigh.. if you're not moved, I mean transported, than you are not alive.
Adam Trombino t
Adam Trombino Chicago Symphony one of the best, brings back of my years studying music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago during seventies to eighties!!!
One of the most beautiful pieces of music written. I play it often; even though a lament, it comforts me.
This music is so so so sad 😭😭😭😢 💔 my daughter was found deceased by the Police at Christmas and I came across this music wow started crying 😭😭😢 💔 miss you love you Caroline ❤️ love mum.xxx
Oooh my!!
I am so sorry for your loss 🙏
@@justdev8965 Thank you.
@@stephboond2400 💕🤜🤛💪💕
Steph boond: Sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss.
I love this piece and the way the conductor feels every note.
I dedicate this moving adagio to my mother in law who died recently , she was an admirable lady, Peace to her soul O Lord . Amen
Ondine Claudel Amen
Ameno
Niech spoczywa w spokoju
Grazie
Wonderful Choice....
Tears running everytme I listen to this piece of music
Me too
@@rolandoalves2303 same
This and Nimrod do it to me every time.
Such a lovely, emotional, deep work.
Wes Kakashi VS Uchiha Obito use this song for their fight theme song....very emotional....
My heart is broken in pieces listening this wonderful music 💔
I think 5:00 is the most heartbreaking part of this piece in my opinion, the cellos sounds like they’re crying...
That is true.. not easy to have this feeling! you have a great heart!
You should hear this in real, it is an unbelievable piece up close to a symphonic orchestra.
"The sweetness of sadness" Oscar Wilde.
When I was a kid, I always fast forwarded the Platoon VHS tape to the end. Just to hear this masterpiece. It always calmed me down. This is definately the song to be played at my funeral.
It always has me bawling my head off, so moving
Rico, they also played it at the beginning of that same movie and I like you want it played at my funeral. It is beyond magnificent.
Used by David Lynch even more masterfully at the end of "The Elephant Man', years before Platoon.
Rico this song was on my answering machine thirty years ago. Every day this guy would have to call me to give me his order for the next day. One afternoon I didn’t answer and the machine picked up. After he recorded his order, he said he called back three times just to hear it.
it was played at Franklin D Roosevelt's funeral in 1945
When the heart cries, that's the sound we can listen..
Yasmin de Carvalho Perfectly expressed.
This turns at the screaming soul of every man and woman who faces battle. It is desperately speaking to my beloved loved one while my heart cries infinitely. It expresses my inner belonging. It makes me believe in my grandfather's soul. When my soul cried, that's the sound I listened. We should all listen to this and cry. 0:00-8:50 moved me to remembering the battles of my heart's soul.
Kakashi VS Obito theme song make me came to here..
But isn't that gay?!?!
Yes yes yes!! That’s it!
Such a powerful piece of music. I’m in tears. It’s beautiful.
Thank you for the gorgeous interpretation (and a tempo that actually makes sense, according to Barber’s score, with all its urgent and meditative yearning).
Nunca una música tocó tanto el corazón. Espectacular.
One of the most beautiful and yet one of the saddest songs I have ever heard. So much is said without a single word. A masterful piece of emotion.
Years ago as i listened to that tune for the 1st time, i felt very emotional and tears began running down my cheeks, sat down on the sofa nearby and listened to the whole piece...
How nice it was !
Every now and then, I listen to it and retrieve the same emotions as those i then felt. There are times when you come back to the basics, this is one major to me.
There is nothing like it. A simply phenomenal composition that is timeless. If this does not move one's heart/emotions...nothing will. Superbly conducted and performed. Bravo Zulu!
Goodbye, old friends. I hope to see you again one day. Love, Smüf