Samuel Barber’s Adagio for strings

HMV label has a CD with both Adagio for Strings and Agnus Dei (Choral version of same music) on which is pretty good. I haven't got the details here but will look tonight for you. Otherwise pop into HMV and if they have a Classical section somewhere (behind the mountains of DVD's of crap old films??) you might find it there.

Jonathan

You probably have heard it even if you cant remember it. The adagio is used for the score to the film 'Platoon' and 'The Elephant Man'.

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
You probably have heard it even if you cant remember it. The adagio is used for the score to the film 'Platoon' and 'The Elephant Man'.

Was it Platoon or was it The Deer Hunter? I remember the latter. Or was it used in both?

All best,
Fred

Deer Hunter, I reckon.

The Other Fredrik

Platoon

Elephant Man

The main theme from Deerhunter was 'Cavatina'composed by the late Stanley Myers, who passed away in 1993.

Wikepedia

The Adagio is heard in The Elephant Man (1980), El Norte (1983), Scarface (1983), The Scarlet Letter (1995), S1m0ne (2002), Reconstruction (2003), and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006); it is heard repeatedly in Platoon (1986), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), and Amélie (2001)

You're right, acad. I misremembered ... all those Vietnam films blur together. The horror ...

Memory is a funny thing, isn't it Fredrik?

All best,
Fred

Fred,

Yep, memory is weird, I don't remember the adagio being in Amelie and its not on the soundtrack. Fredrik's memory is not what it used to be - too much vodka I'm afraid.

Apart from music, I have forgotten why I am alive!

I had better watch out for high beams and rope if I go deaf. Some here think I already am!

ATB from Fredrik

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Originally posted by jcs_smith:
Is it any good and if so can anyone recommend any particular one?

I have the Bernstein's.
You find it on some Deutsche Grammophon edition.

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
I had better watch out for high beams

Hi Fred!

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

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Originally posted by jcs_smith:
Is it any good and if so can anyone recommend any particular one?

I have the Bernstein's.
You find it on some Deutsche Grammophon edition.

That's a very nice and schmultzy version!
Don't play that at a dinner party. It sure to kill the crowd.

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Originally posted by kuma:

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

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Originally posted by jcs_smith:
Is it any good and if so can anyone recommend any particular one?

I have the Bernstein's.
You find it on some Deutsche Grammophon edition.

That's a very nice and schmultzy version!
Don't play that at a dinner party. It sure to kill the crowd.

Hi Kuma!
Of course it's "the day after the party" music.
When one pounds his chest and think that he will not drink so much again!

Hi jcs

The HMV version I was talking about can be bought here for £4.99 delivered.

Its a really good version and as I said also contains the choral 'Agnus Dei' version.

Can't go wrong at that price!

Jonathan

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Originally posted by munch:
acad do you play music when you are not working for MI5 OR6 OR THE CIA OR THE OTHERS munch

Yes I do. I play the piano on live radio for the BBC. Other MI6 operatives around the world record my performances then play the music back through a computer to decode their orders. I got a couple of wrong notes the other day and a third world head of state got assassinated!

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

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Originally posted by kuma:

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

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Originally posted by jcs_smith:
Is it any good and if so can anyone recommend any particular one?

I have the Bernstein's.
You find it on some Deutsche Grammophon edition.

That's a very nice and schmultzy version!
Don't play that at a dinner party. It sure to kill the crowd.

Hi Kuma!
Of course it's "the day after the party" music.
When one pounds his chest and think that he will not drink so much again!

LOL!

Kuma,

you have pinkfish pm.

Jono

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Originally posted by kuma:

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

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Originally posted by kuma:

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

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Originally posted by jcs_smith:
Is it any good and if so can anyone recommend any particular one?

I have the Bernstein's.
You find it on some Deutsche Grammophon edition.

That's a very nice and schmultzy version!
Don't play that at a dinner party. It sure to kill the crowd.

Hi Kuma!
Of course it's "the day after the party" music.
When one pounds his chest and think that he will not drink so much again!

LOL!

ssssssssss
please don't scream...................

Oh yes it certainly does sound good at 2 or 3 in the morning the thunderous baselines complimenting the rushes of those little party pills to a tee late 90's non cheesy trance bringing back some fond memories now where did i leave my car keys lol.

Well Jonathan, on your recommendation I picked up a copy on HMV. It’s an interesting thought – what would I have thought of it if I hadn’t heard the dance version first. It’s probably a bit like eating roast chicken after spending your life eating Chicken Madras. Sorry but the orchestral piece sounds a bit dull and tedious to me.(And I like Pete Namlook – that must say something.) Quite lush though so it might work for some moods

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Originally posted by fentontfox:
Oh yes it certainly does sound good at 2 or 3 in the morning the thunderous baselines complimenting the rushes of those little party pills to a tee late 90's non cheesy trance bringing back some fond memories now where did i leave my car keys lol.

The last time I was working the door of a club we stopped a drug pusher who was selling haliborange (as E's), prozac and viagra. Can you recommend any of those?

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Sorry but the orchestral piece sounds a bit dull and tedious to me

Each to his own I suppose...and it depends a lot on what you find exciting. I actually find most dance music tedious and boring despite the high octane beat yet I find Agnus Dei absolutely exhilirating.

Thanks God we're not all the same though. As you say, try it again when you're in a different mood. If its not for you at least it didn't break the bank finding out.

All the best

Jonathan

Very true. I just feel that maybe the dance version will always temper my view of it.

By the way, I had assumed from the name you would have been a Halifax RL fan.

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I had assumed from the name you would have been a Halifax RL fan

Been a handful of times over the years (and to Thrum hall previous to that) but my countless visits to the Shay over the years have been to see the mightly HTAFC. Ee-eye-ee-eye-ee-eye-oh up the Conference table (hopefully) we'll go etc etc etc.

jonathan

It is very difficult to play well. Even the bass part has a few traps in it, though the real issue is the very high stuff on the fiddles and violas. I love it. It was a piece in my first ever concert, and I last played it in my third from the end gig, so it means a lot to me on alsorts of levels.

Kindest regards from Fredrik

All,

My fave is the Bernstein recording on DG (I think) - very slow, very rich, very wheepy. There's actually a version of the original quartet version on the Naim Label - the Eberle Quartet disc. Simon, the Label Manager will I'm sure be able to tell you more (i.e if there's any left).

Phil