Dans la chronique Copier-coller, Pierre Solot se demande pourquoi diable on s'est encore permis de secouer un chef-d'oeuvre ! Tout ça pour ne rien y changer. Rien ? Ou presque... La pièce transformée, ...

Il s’agit de l’œuvre la plus célèbre de Samuel Barber. Son intensité dramatique convenant parfaitement au cinéma, à la télévision ou même aux grands événements solennels. Mais savez-vous comment est ...

For many, it was its use in the film Platoon. For others, it was William Orbit’s Pieces in a Modern Style project. But very few of us can claim to have first experienced Barber’s Adagio for Strings in ...

In the second of a five-part series produced by independent producer Ben Manilla and Media Mechanics, Weekend All Things Considered looks at recordings recently selected for the Library of Congress' ...

This is a beautiful collection of American music, lovingly and brilliantly performed. With Barber’s Adagio you might fear that Bernstein would ‘do a Nimrod’ and present it with exaggerated ...

This new book about Samuel Barber’s famous, eloquently mournful “Adagio for Strings” is 262 pages long. About one-fourth of those pages are eminently worthy of the music lovers’ careful attention. In ...

VIDÉO - Pour fêter ses 15 ans, le quatuor Modigliani sort un nouveau disque intitulé Portraits avec, entre autres, le superbe Adagio du compositeur américain tel qu'il avait été écrit à l'origine Bien ...

Les adagios ont été rendus célèbres auprès du grand public par le cinéma. L’Adagio pour cordes de Samuel Barber, par exemple, a été utilisé dans Platoon, Elephant Man, Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie ...

This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem. Samuel Barber's Adagio ...

For many, it was its use in the film Platoon. For others, it was William Orbit’s Pieces in a Modern Style project. But very few of us can claim to have first experienced Barber’s Adagio for Strings in ...