Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings

[elleng]

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# 18 of listener's favorites. Here's today's playlist, https://weta.org/fm/playlist; see ####s 32, Holst's Planets-Jupiter > #31, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto, etc.

Last # around dinner time, bet on Beethoven's # 9 OR Dvorak's New World (or a surprise!)

[Mme. Defarge]

1. I LOVE that piece

but it’s almost too much. Just hearing it in my mind is almost too much.

[elleng]

2. It's a lot, I agree.

Listening as I watch wind on the river.

(SORRY I missed the Moldau, @ 9:20.)


NEXT, Beethoven's #5!

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. I know what you mean

While I love it when it's performed by a full orchestra, this performance by the Dover Quartet is just so pure.

[Pachamama]

3. One of the most powerful pieces....made even more powerful by the imagery from JFK's funeral

Forever in my mind with the boot in the stirrup on the horse.....

[Sneederbunk]

5. Also played during movie Gallipoli. Powerful. Very sad.