ADAGIO FOR STRINGS, OPUS 11

Created on 24/11/2004
Latest update on 15/04/2023

Artist: NBC Symphony Orchestra
Author: Samuel Barber
Label: HMV
Year: 1938

Conducted by Arturo Toscanini. American composer (1910-1981). Written for his String Quartet (1936), performed at the funeral of both president Roosevelt and Kennedy.

Covers:

1986:

London Starlight Orch. [the version in film Platoon]

1995:

William Orbit [as Barber's Adagio For Strings, in 2000 a hit in a Ferry Corsten remix]

1996:

Paul Oakenfold

2000:

Skip Raiders [as Another Day]

2004:

DJ Tiƫsto [also during opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics]

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