Barber Adagio (100th Anniversay)

• Audio Samples
• Album Summary
• Notes & Reviews
• Also Purchased
• Works Details

Audio Samples

Album Summary

Performers

• Leon McCawley (Piano)
• Stanley Drucker (Clarinet)
• Judith LeClair (Bassoon)
• Joseph Robinson (Oboe)
• Philip Myers (Horn)
• Jeanne Baxtresser (Flute)
• Elmar Oliveira (Violin)
• Barbara Hendricks
• Roger Vignoles (Piano)
• Thomas Allen (Baritone)

Conductors

• Rattle, Simon, Sir
• Slatkin, Leonard
• Thomas, Michael Tilson

Ensemble

• 

Composer

• Samuel Barber (Composer) (1910 - 1981)

Notes & Reviews:

This 2-CD commemorative set marks the centenary of Samuel Barber's birth and gives a fairly rounded picture of the composer. Samuel Barber's music, masterfully crafted and built on romantic structures and sensibilities, is at once lyrical, rhythmically complex, and harmonically rich. His intensely lyrical Adagio for Strings has become one of the most recognizable and beloved compositions, both in concerts and films ("Platoon," "The Elephant Man," "El Norte," "Lorenzo's Oil").

Reviews

There are currently no reviews, be the first one!

Also Purchased

Works Details

Barber, Samuel : Adagio for Strings

• Conductor: Simon Rattle
• Notes: Philharmonie, Berlin (12/29/2008-12/31/2008)
• Running Time: 8 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1936
• Studio/Live: Live

Barber, Samuel : The School for Scandal, overture for orchestra, Op. 5

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Running Time: 8 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1931-1933

Barber, Samuel : Concerto for Violin Op. 14

• Performer: Elmar Oliveira (Violin)
• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Running Time: 23 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1939

Barber, Samuel : Knoxville, Summer of 1915, Op. 24 :: Summer of 1915, for high voice & orchestra (rev. for voice & chamber orchestra), Op. 24

• Performer: Barbara Hendricks
• Conductor: Michael Thomas
• Notes: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London (1994-05-20_1994-05-21&1994-)
• Running Time: 15 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1947-1950

Barber, Samuel : Essay for Orchestra no 1, Op. 12

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Running Time: 9 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1937

Barber, Samuel : Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Notes: Composition written: 1953.
• Running Time: 13 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1953

Barber, Samuel : Dover Beach, Op. 3

• Performers: Roger Vignoles (Piano); Thomas Allen (Baritone)
• Notes: Blackheath Concert Halls, London (07/01/1990-07/03/1990)
• Running Time: 8 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1931

Barber, Samuel : Sonata for Piano in E flat minor, Op. 26

• Performer: Leon McCawley (Piano)
• Notes: St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol (12/17/1995-12/19/1995)
• Running Time: 20 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1949

Barber, Samuel : Excursions (4) for Piano, Op. 20

• Performer: Leon McCawley (Piano)
• Notes: St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol (12/17/1995-12/19/1995)
• Running Time: 13 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1942-1944

Barber, Samuel : Summer Music, for wind quintet, Op. 31

• Performers: Stanley Drucker (Clarinet); Judith LeClair (Bassoon); Joseph Robinson (Oboe); Philip Myers (Horn); Jeanne Baxtresser (Flute)
• Running Time: 10 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1955

Barber, Samuel : Songs (3), for voice & piano, Op. 2

• Performers: Thomas Allen (Baritone); Roger Vignoles (Piano)
• Notes: St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol (04/08/1993-04/09/1993)
• Running Time: 4 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1927-1934

Barber, Samuel : Quartet for Strings in B major, Op. 11

• Notes: Blackheath Concert Halls, London (07/01/1990-07/03/1990)
• Running Time: 18 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1936