Adagio for Strings, op. 11

Name: Adagio for Strings, op. 11
Duration: 8 min 42 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
3.5	Adagio for strings	8:40	Samuel Barber	100 Popular Classics	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XE1993	Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC)	MBS CD 517
2.5	Adagio for Strings	8:42	Samuel Barber	Classical Music of the Millennium	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2000	Castle Music (subsidiary of Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.)	PRECD 001, PRECD001
3.5	Adagio for Strings	8:43	Samuel Barber	200 Popular Classics The Finest Music By The Greatest Composers	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2001	Castle Pulse (aka “Pulse”, sub‐label in the Castle/Sanctuary “family”)	PBXCD903X
3.5	Adagio for Strings, op. 11	8:43	Samuel Barber	100 Popular Classics: Best Loved Works of the Great Composers	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2005-05-09	Castle Communications (primary imprint of Castle Communications PLC)	MBS CD 517

orchestra:	London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO; The Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra)
conductor:	Walter Süsskind (conductor)

recording of:	Adagio for Strings

orchestrator:	Samuel Barber (American composer) (in 1938)
composer:	Samuel Barber (American composer) (in 1936)
premiered by:	NBC Symphony Orchestra (on 1938-11-05) Arturo Toscanini (conductor) (on 1938-11-05)

premiered at:	[radio broadcast] (1938-11-05)

publisher:	Chappell (Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.) G. Schirmer Inc.

is the basis for:	Dov’è l’amore
arrangement of:	String Quartet, op. 11: II. Molto adagio
arrangements:	Adagio (Carla Bley arrangement, from Adagio for Strings) Adagio for Strings (for organ, Strickland) Adagio for Strings (arr. Lucien Cailliet for clarinet choir) Adagio for Strings (arr. John O'Reilly for woodwind band) Adagio for Strings (catch‐all for arrangements) Adagio for Strings (Lee Jackson arrangement) Adagio for Strings (Bond arrangement) Adagio for Strings (arr. William Orbit) Agnus Dei (arr. Samuel Barber for chorus)