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Adagio for Strings
Composer: Samuel Barber
Performers: ±«Óãtv National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Jac van Steen
Recording date: 11 May 2019
Date of broadcast: 22 June 2020
Barber's masterpiece for string orchestra. This piece - from 1936, and at a time of personal and international turbulence - is a mixture of tears and sighing. Listen: an orchestra breathes, and grieves.
Composer: Samuel Barber
Performers: ±«Óãtv National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Jac van Steen
Recording date: 11 May 2019
Date of broadcast: 22 June 2020
