Classic FM

What’s the piece of classical music in Mobb Deep’s Down For You?

And now it’s been used by New York’s Mobb Deep, one of the most successful rap duos of all time, in their latest single ‘Down ...
The New York Times

An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Johanna Keller SAMUEL BARBER’S Adagio for Strings begins softly, with a single note, a B flat, played by the violins. Two beats later the lower ...
Seattle Times

‘The Saddest Music Ever Written’: Samuel Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings,’ deconstructed

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 ...
The Independent

Album review: Keller Quartett, Ligeti String Quartets, Barber Adagio (ECM New Series)

The Keller Quartett are a Hungarian group, here showcasing two of their countryman György Ligeti's astringent string quartets of the Fifties and Sixties, separated by the calm lacuna of Samuel ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Samuel Barber’ Review: The Man Behind ‘Adagio for Strings’

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) found his musical voice early on. From youth, his works were expertly wrought, sumptuously opulent but clearly of their time, and full of passion restrained somewhat by a ...
The Irish Times

Keller Quartet – Ligeti: string quartets 1 & 2; Barber: Adagio

György Ligeti's First Quartet (1953-54) was a bottom-drawer work in his native Hungary for being too adventurous. And after his flight to the West in 1956 it became bottom drawer because it was too ...