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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Samuel Barber: Adagio100th Anniversary
Barber, S: | Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle Overture to The School for Scandal, Op. 5 Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin Violin Concerto, Op. 14 Elmar Oliveira (violin) Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 Barbara Hendricks (soprano) London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas First Essay for Orchestra Op. 12 Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Op.32a Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin Dover Beach, Op. 3 Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano), Endellion String Quartet Piano Sonata, Op. 26 Leon McCawley (piano) Excursions Op. 20 Leon McCawley (piano) |
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Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is best-known today for his Adagio for Strings, which was originally written as the slow movement for an early string quartet, and has become one of most played pieces of classical music. The Adagio was first perfomed in its orchestral form by Toscanini, with the Essay for Orchestra in the same concert. These works are typical of Barber's output, being overtly European in outlook and language.Barber composed music in most genres: two symphonies; concertos for piano, cello and violin, two grand operas; ballets; choral works; chamber music and a great number of songs. This selection of works includes the beautifully reflective Knoxville: Summer 1915, written to a sensitive text from James Agee's unfinished novel A Death in the Family. Also included is the Violin Concerto with it's lovely slow movement and the Overture to a School for Scandal, which was the first of Barber's works to be performed by a major orchestra. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Barber - Orchestral Works
Barber, S: | Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 Violin Concerto, Op. 14 First Essay for Orchestra Op. 12 Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a Summer Music, Op. 31 Overture to The School for Scandal, Op. 5 Cello Sonata in C minor, Op. 6 Canzone for Flute & Piano Op. 38a Excursions Op. 20 Nocturne, Op. 33 Pas de deux arr. from Souvenirs, Op. 28 Two-step arr. from Souvenirs, Op. 28 Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17 Third Essay for Orchestra, Op. 47 |
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| |  | Barber: Orchestral Works Volume 1
“Under Marin Alsop's sensitive guidance, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has found the heartbeat of this music.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2000 “That Marin Alsop is a musician of outstanding gifts is amply reinforced by this all-Barber anthology. In her red-blooded rendering of the wartime Second Symphony, she shows just what a powerfully inspired creation it is, extracting every ounce of sinewy logic from its fraught outer movements, while distilling wonder and atmosphere in the haunting central Andante, unpoco mosso. No less convincing is her reading of the magnificent First Symphony, always acutely responsive to the music's daring expressive scope and building climaxes of riveting cumulative intensity. In its unhurried authority, big heart and epic thrust, it's the kind of interpretation you could have imagined from Bernstein in his NYPO heyday. Elsewhere, she brings an aptly bardic quality to the outer portions of the First Essay, while few could fail to respond to the twinkling affection and gentle wit she lavishes on the irresistible School for Scandal Overture.
Were the orchestral contribution just a fraction more polished, this would be a world-beater.
Zinman's stylish 1991 anthology with the Baltimore SO tends to throw into sharper relief the relative shortcomings of Alsop's hard-working Scots (their fiddles especially lack something in silk-spun refinement and tone when playing above the stave). The expert engineering can't quite disguise the acoustical shortcomings of Glasgow's Henry Wood Hall, but the result is tonally truthful and conveys plenty of impact when required.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “the two Symphonies are played by the Scottish orchestra with passionate commitment and deep lyrical feeling.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Excellent performances of Barber's earlier orchestral works, including Adagio for strings.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2006 | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Music of Barber - Original Recordings (1935-1947)
Julius Baker (flute), Mitchell Miller (oboe), Harry Freistadt (trumpet), Samuel Barber (baritone), Raya Garbousova (cello), Erich Itor Kahn (piano) Los Angeles Janssen Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Saidenberg Little Symphony, Curtis Quartet, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Werner Janssen, Arturo Toscanini, Daniel Saidenberg, Eugene Ormandy, Bruno Walter | 
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| |  | Barber: Concerto per piano & 3 Essays
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Daniel Kawka As pianist and musicologist Alfonso Alberti writes in the liner notes, “in the evolution of musical language, Barber finds a niche in which we can still say something in a certain way which others consider dead and buried; he does not look ahead as Cowell or Ives (and still less Cage), do simply because he has other objectives”. This new CD includes the Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra, perhaps the culminating point in Barber’s career (the piece won the composer his second Pulitzer Prize), written for the pianist John Browning and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, and the Three Essays for orchestra. The first, dated 1937, and linked, chronologically and historically, to the famous Adagio was proposed to Arturo Toscanini for the first performance; the second was completed in 1942 and conducted for the first time by Bruno Walter; the third was written in 1978 and is typified by a particular crepuscular atmosphere and sparer writing, without giving up a charming melodic nature. The skilful pianist Giampaolo Nuti, already known for his recordings dedicated to Schnittke, Busoni and Berio, appears with Daniel Kawka and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI. “Nuti has a fine technique...The performances are all reliable and the CD is a welcome centenary tribute from Italy to a composer who had so many rewarding connections with that country throughout his life.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Neeme Järvi conducts Barber
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| |  | Gould, M: Latin-American Symphonette, Barber: Orchestral Works
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