Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei (Adagio for strings)


Choral version of Agnus Dei sung to the theme of Samuel Barbers Adagio for strings.Performed by The Choir of Trinity College,Cambridge,UK.Directed by Richard Marlow.http://...

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Uploaded: November 2, 2007 at 1:17 am
Author: lee32uk

Length: 00:09:30
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Ironeyes07 (December 5, 2008 at 4:37 am)
True, but he did compose this paticular version himself in the 1960's. He took what he created and changed it himself. No one else came up with this version. It was all done by Barber.
ladylate (December 5, 2008 at 12:04 am)
This is beautiful! The octave jump at 1:34 is chilling!
surlabog (December 4, 2008 at 8:00 pm)
Prefer a bit of flannel myself...
3cplantin (December 4, 2008 at 6:34 pm)
Very true when he fist composed it. He wrote it first as one movement of a string quartet in the 1930s, then as a version for string orchestra. But Barber himself did arrange it much later (late 1960s) for choir using the Agnus Dei text. All versions are just incredible and as you mentioned the words are beautiful - together they are a wonderful match.

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