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Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, transformed into an unmissable funeral
moment, is like a tree hiding the forest of a protean, if not prolific, oeuvre.
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on March 9, 1910, Samuel Osmond Barber II
received a musical education from his pianist mother and trained as a singer,
following in the footsteps of his aunt, the famous lyric contralto Louise Homer,
who would go on to a career at New York's Metropolitan Opera, while his uncle
Sidney Homer, a composer of melodies, followed him throughout his training.
Gifted for improvisation, he was a preco...
Agnus DeiSamuel Barber and The Choir of New College, Oxford
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms - Copland: In the Beginning - Barber: Agnus Dei
The Sleeping BeautySamuel Rogers and Samuel Barber
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47: III. Allegro, ma non tantoDaniel Harding, Samuel Barber, Renaud Capuçon and Jean Sibelius (Renaud Capucon)
Sibelius: Violin Concerto - Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
