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:
London Starlight Orch. [the version in film Platoon]
William Orbit [as Barber's Adagio For Strings, in 2000 a hit in a Ferry Corsten remix]
Skip Raiders [as Another Day]
DJ Tiƫsto [also during opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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