An organ recital in progress: part 71

Dear SMM Community,
 

The next part of my online organ recital is here, and I hope that you enjoy it. I offer up these musical meditations as part of our parish efforts to find ways to keep you connected at this time. Recorded on my house organ, the instrument is a musical facsimile of the great 'Father' Willis organ at Salisbury Cathedral.

Today, I present Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings.


American composer, conductor, pianist, and music educator Samuel Barber (1910-1981) was educated at the Curtis Institute, and by his uncle and composer Sidney Homer. Barber’s Adagio for strings was written in 1935 as the second movement of his String quartet, and reworked a year later by the composer for orchestra. Reworked as a choral Agnus Dei  by the composer in 1967, the arrangement heard here was prepared by William Strickland in 1949.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music