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Samuel Barber

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1997 - Piano Concerto / Violin Concerto / Adagio for Strings / Seco

1994 - Barber/Bruch Violin Concertos

1994 - Chadwick: Symphony no. 3 / Barber: Two Orchestral Excerpts f
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1993 - Complete Works for Solo Piano (feat. piano: Eric Parkin)

1993 - Barber / Dvořák / Glass

1993 - Serenades

1992 - The Royal Edition no. 39: The Planets / Adagio for Strings /
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1992 - Knoxville Summer of 1915 / Dover Beach / Hermit Songs / Adro

1992 - Adagio for Strings / Symphony No. 1 / The School for Scandal

1992 - Music of Samuel Barber

1991 - Barber: Symphony No. 1 / The School for Scandal Overture / B

1989 - Cello Concerto, Cello Sonata, Adagio for Strings (Scottish C

1989 - Music of Samuel Barber (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra feat. c

1987 - Bernstein: Chichester Psalms / Copland: In the beginning and
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1985 - Piano Concerto / Medea / Adagio (London Symphony Orchestra f

1985 - Piano concerto / Medea: Meditation & Dance of Vengance/ Adag

1984 - Barber: Cello Concerto / Shostakovich: Cello Concerto no. 1

1983 - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Barber: Adagio for Strings / Co

1976 - Barber: Adagio for Strings / Ives: Symphony No. 3 / Copland:

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1910

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--- 1981

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Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

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Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century; music critic Donal Henahan stated that "Probably no other American composer has ever enjoyed such early, such persistent and such long-lasting acclaim." His Adagio for Strings (1936) has earned a permanent place in the concert repertory of orchestras. He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his opera Vanessa (1956–57) and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1962). Also widely performed is his Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (1947), a work for soprano and orchestra, which sets a prose text by James Agee. Unusual among contemporary composers, nearly all of his compositions have been recorded.