Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings op. 11 | Cristian Măcelaru | WDR Symphony Orchestra
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ค. 2021
- Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings op. 11, performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of its principal conductor Cristian Măcelaru. Recorded live at the Kölner Philharmonie on February 26, 2021.
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings op. 11
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Cristian Măcelaru, conductor
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○ Introduction to the work
During Samuel Barber's own funeral in New York on January 23, 1981, it did not sound: his Adagio for strings, which, apart from the funeral march genre, is probably the most popular funeral music. Many famous personalities were buried to its sounds: Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Grace Kelly, Albert Einstein. It also continues to play a major role in the media treatment of horrific events such as 9/11. And of course, the Adagio also appears regularly in films when melancholy or sad images are involved.
A simple melody that seems to spin on into eternity in a painful and breathlessly condensing event: that makes Barber's Adagio the "saddest classical piece" of all time. At least that is what the listeners of the BBC, who were allowed to decide on it in 2004, felt. It is a piece of beguiling, timeless beauty and sublime seriousness.
For Barber, his best-known work was both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because it made him famous. A curse, because it made him a one-hit wonder. The fact that the American composer also wrote three operas, two symphonies and a violin concerto - who cares today? Even the work from which he tore his Adagio in 1938 in order to arrange it for string orchestra for a concert by the famous conductor Arturo Toscanini is heard extremely rarely: his String Quartet op. 11, in which the Adagio is surrounded by two fast movements. He composed the quartet in 1936 as a scholarship student in Rome.
Compared to the string quartet, in which the Adagio naturally sounds more sparse, more rational, the later arrangement virtually revels in the colorfully enriched sound of the string orchestra. The dragging tempo, the sighing theme that wanders through all the voices, the calm, undulating curve of increase without contrasts that culminates in spherical heights, the dark grounding by recumbent tones - all this does its part to move people to tears.
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Obrigado. Do Brasil.
Adagio for Strings is arguably his best known work by Samuel Barber, arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Opus 11. The composer completed the arrangement in 1936, the same year he wrote the quartet. The Adagio could have been composed much earlier, so far removed is its writing from what was done in the 1930s. It really has a particularly penetrating meditative character, close to certain religious canticles. The slow tempo, the stretched rhythms (some notes last 10 beats) contribute to give elevation to this piece. The repetition of the main theme, alternated with a second theme, from beginning to end gives the impression of a litany. The main theme is ascending. It is written like the long melismas of the Middle Ages, supported
by the other voices in broad chords which follow one another while sliding. The extended middle section continues the main playing
of the cellos in a mezzo-soprano tessitura. The first phrase returns like a refrain played in several voices, sometimes shortcut, or well concluded differently. Its various movements lead to a wide crescendo which culminates in a fortissimo peak of all the voices, the violins playing in superacute register. An extended silence and a few chords follow with a brief series of elegiac strings for this part
of the work, announcing the muted reprise of the beginning, leading after a last melisma to the high point. This composition is considered by many to be the most popular of all 20th century orchestral works. The Adagio by Samuel Barber has some similarities with the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler. Music is a beautiful refuge against the imperfection of the world. *Lucien*
I get goose bumps every time I listen this Adagio for Strings op. 11. Thank you very much! Greetings from Houston 👏👏👏👏👏
Wonderful !
Congratulation WDR Sinfonieorchester.
Congratulation Cristian Măcelaru.
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Thank you & greetings from Finland ❕
J'aime la douceur et cette musique sublime m'amène au paradis... merci à vous 🌹♥️🌹♥️
Merci! 🤗
Cette citation est pour vous :
Un monde sans musique c'est comme un monde sans amour... une vie sans vie !
*Gérard Briffoteaux-Fleury*
@@LucienMarine merci pour ce partage. Il y a beaucoup de musique dans ma vie!!!🌹🌹🌹
Zeitlos ist dies Werk von Barber 🌸 danke für die angenehme Darbietung 🌸
Fantástico a música de Barbear. Ele provoca reflexão sobre a essência das coisas.
Incredible touching my soul, great.
MARAVILLOSO
GRACIAS
Very simbolic these days. Make love not war. Greetings from Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Amazing
Thanks!
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Do you have Gary Bertini's vedio????????
Sollte die korrekte Opusnummer nicht op. 11a lauten? Op. 11 ist das Streichquartett, dem das Adagio entnommen ist. So steht es ja sogar in der Videobeschreibung.
Hi, Jestem!
Es spielt keine Rolle, ob es sich um die erste Streich-Quartett-Fassung von Samuel Barber, Bearbeitungen von Barber selbst oder Bearbeitungen von anderen Urheber:innen handelt, es bleibt immer op. 11.
Viele liebe Grüße vom WDR Sinfonieorchester
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