It's interesting. As someone who struggles with major depression, the thing is you don't feel anything. Quite the opposite of how depression is misunderstood as sorrow or grief. You don't feel anything but the enormous unimportance of existance and life. An entire universe swolloen with nothing and encircled by very dim horizons. THIS music, including its moments of astounding grace brings me back to life, feeling and green spring after rain. I revisit it now and then just for that.
@@EAZYED420 I also always cry when I hear this adagio, because I remember my closest loved one - my brother, two years younger than I, who died alone in his 30s in a terrible highway accident. I cry in awe of Samuel Barber's genius in conveying that pain and grief with musical notes alone, no words needed. It is a beautiful and perfect piece of music.
First time my wife heard this was when we walked into a church in Rome. A string orchestra was rehearsing and started playing the Adagio. We stood rapt. The acoustics were incredible. My wife cried like a baby. One of our favorite memories of our marriage.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger - something better, pushing right back."
@@bronxboy47 You are probably correct. Things don't change much over the years. I have to wonder if he EVER found any personal happiness during his lifetime.
Music is the antidote to, well everything. I fought MDD for about 50 yrs, starting in high school. If I hadn't studied and played Classical piano, I would not have survived.
We had this played at our wedding (before the movie). It filled us with such emotion, love and prayers for the future. My beloved passed away in my arms a few months ago after 37 yrs of marriage. This will forever be ours.
Condolences to you but well wishes for your wonderful 37 yrs. He will be in your arms again. That is our Lord's promise. Music is God's gift to us...along with many others.
For days this adagio has been playing daily at Puerta del Sol in Madrid. It is a tribute to the thousands of people killed by the Covid19. Hopefully the peace that this adagio transmits will comfort all loved ones of the deseased.
I've lived a shitty life, abused, neglected, beaten every day. Mom was an Alcoholic and dad was in prison. Many Boarding homes, Many times, I put the rope around my neck. This piece brought me back. This 2019 struggle is so real, I'll keep fighting, for what it's worth. Many days-I really am ready to give up......
We're sorry to hear about your struggles, and hope you find the support and help you need. Thanks for listening to our music; we are happy to share and help you on your way.
You're not alone, Allan. And despite every abuse that you've had to endure and overcome, here you remain... an earnest, introspective being... a light still flickering in such times of darkness. You are not alone, my friend. You/we/others are a testament to a Universal spirit that defies circumstances, challenges, heartache... deep inside is knowing, perhaps unconscious, but a knowing nonetheless that our existence is greater than just this life, and that peace and meaning to our struggles will one come to us, in this life or beyond. Find one thing to be grateful for each day and write it down. Godspeed, my friend.
1 year ago when I was 15. I lost my grandmother when covid struck. My family weren't able to attend her own funeral because of quarantine. This piece reminds me of her so much, and how much she is in my heart. I love you grandma, you're my star ❤
Un anima che ha scelto il sacrificio per l'altro....riposa in pace 🙏 che la sua rinascita in un piano diverso sia ricca di ogni bene, sorridi e gioisci pensando a lei, e lei godrà di questo tuo amore.
Such a brave and courageous thing to share. You already know far more than you need to about what matters in a lifetime. And if you ever lose your way…return here to this music. You’ll snap right back to where you belong. Best to you, and yours.
When someone we care about,dies, it’s just their body that dies. Everything you learned from them and by being with them, Is their gift to you. These gifts from them stay with you as long as you live. Now you have the chance to teach other people about the useful things you learned.
My late father served in Vietnam with the USAF. I associate this music with him bc of the movie “ Platoon.” 23 years after his passing and every single time I hear this it makes me emotional. Just typing this with it playing in the background is enough. I don’t think I’ll ever get over loosing my father at a young age and can only hope that I live long enough for my daughters to grow up and have their own lives and for me to see them grow. This music forever connects me to him it comforts me and I feel him when I hear it.
There are some wonderful videos with a cappella chorus, "Agnus Dei," with one mesmerizing from the Vlaams Radio Koor in Brussels. I do eternity with this composition, vocal or string.
@Svetlana Abramova That is until we utterly destroy it as we've been doing quite regularly on the Earth for a few millenia. Eternity is a concept for children. :/
The performance of Adagio for Strings is nothing short of a sacred event. Holy. The audience rapt and silent. The musicians who work so hard to create this beautiful piece. Barber who poured himself into it. So beautiful in it’s sadness.
My heart simply breaks into pieces hearing this music. I was a dancer and for every note I saw the choreography...from life, to trauma, to death, to peace, to glory....
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings is possibly the most beautiful melody ever written. It touches me like no other melody I have ever heard. I feel my soul levitating, lifting up, floating above the petty, mundane and inconsequential things in life. I surrender my mind, my spirit my soul. I focus on the Eternal every time I listen to it. This melody, I believe, is the result of a true moment of Divine Inspiration.
Me he preguntado en alguna ocasión que llevó a Samuel Barber a componer esta melodía delicada, triste y de una inmensa belleza. Parece inspirada por algo espiritual, mágico.
Certainly in the top 10 for me. May I suggest a choral piece? Written in the 1600s, it is called "Miserere Mei, Deus by the Oxford College Choir.....exquisite, ethereal.
My dad loved this song . When he passed away we played it at his funeral. It's now my favorite song to listen to. Very peaceful . Makes me feel like he's with me . When I close my eye's.
I hear the cries of 58,000 young warriors that never had an opportunity to marry, walk their daughter down the aisle, to hold their first child, I did, I'm a survivor. There isn't a day that goes by I don't think of the War I survived, the men I knew and experiences I'll never forget. This is their music for us to remember.
Steven Tyers You know what - i bet he does. I lost my dad and my grandad on the same day shortly after my 4th birthday. 53 years later i still miss them every day. Blessings.
I first heard this a few years ago. I was a delivery driver and had to pull over. I could not stop crying. This tugs hard at my heart strings. The only song to ever make me cry.
The movie Platoon was my first exposure to this extraordinary work, it also took me back to Viet Nam and strangely reminded me of the mood swings following a major firefight. It was a time to reflect on what happened. It was horror beyond anything I could ever have imagined. The noise, the screams, the sounds of battle have left me but the memories will always be there. This beautiful piece of music takes all those horrible moments away and soothes my soul. It's like as a child you have a nightmare and your Mom comes in and stroke your head telling you not to worry it was just a bad dream. Then it is alright and you go back to sleep. I've asked that this be played at my funeral.
War and death are human and they are part of our lifes. Currently you can see what happens when there is no more war and less deaths. Overpopulation is the result of peaceful times. Even if we are emotionally stable because of peace, you need war and death to stabilize the population in order to control the social disaster that will rain down upon us one day if we continue this current path.
I confess, I'd never heard this piece until I saw Platoon in the cinema. The music hit me like a ton of bricks, every hair on my body stood up.30 years later and after countless times listening, it still brings a tear to my eye every time I play it. Utterly brilliant!
Me, too. I was ~ 25 then. I enjoyed classical music, but casually. Beethoven and Brahms, mostly, their symphonies and concertos. That's about it. It's near 50 years later for me, and my taste for the classics has broadened, quite a bit. This piece was one of those that sent me off on my quest for more.
I had heard it before Platoon but couldn't remember where until i watched again 'The Elephant Man',right at the end when he had finished making the matchstick model of the church next door to the hospital where he was staying.
@@bernardholdsworth2171 This was played several dozen times on TV, in the week following the JFK murder. I asked around, and no-one knew what it was. About twenty-five years later I heard it on Elephant Man and caught it on the credits. I'm now 77. First heard at 16.
I like many people first experienced this truly incredible piece of music through the movie Platoon. Here I sit almost 37 years later and the incredible music still brings me to tears everytime I hear it. As a Canadian, we did not experience the horrible tragedy that was the Vietnam War and the terrible toll it played on the American soldiers who had to fight the war and how it tore America apart. I hope this incredible piece of music brings peace to those who suffered through the war both directly and indirectly and that we remember how truly great pieces of art inspire and move us a civilization to all we can be as humans. I am a rocker at heart but classical music has always inspired far different emotions in me and there is no piece of music of any genre that has truly had the ability to move me more than this incredible piece of music. I truly believe if you are not moved by this song and the incredible playing of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, I fear you may have already shuffled off from this mortal coil. To all of you who view and are moved by this incredible piece of music, I wish you all lives full of happiness, joy and love and as I will do, please to my darling wife, when it is time to put my ashes out to sea that this be the piece of music that accompanies my movement into whatever the next life brings.
I assume you're referring to that movie which was Oliver Stone's directorial breakout, and is widely-regarded as both a definitive Vietnam War movie **and** a definitive '80s movie? The one which turned out to be a masterclass in dramatic acting, executed by a cast positively dense with both "A-List" talent (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker) and journeyman character actors (Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Francesco Quinn, Tony Todd) but didn't know it yet? The same one that accumulated stacks of awards and recognition, and credited with kick-starting an arguably overdue national dialogue on the sociopolitical ramifications of America's deeply troubled/flawed foray into Southeast Asia.... ...and which I invariably think of each and **every single time** I hear "Adagio For Strings" (or as I called it prior to learning it's real name: "that Platoon song,") because it book-ends the movie so perfectly you'd think it was composed specifically for it? Yeah, I remember that. ;-) I also remember seeing it in the interim between the day I formally enlisted in the Marine Corps, and the day I left for Parris Island.
@@frenchandaluz George Delerue AdorE Barber, entre autre. Platoon est de ses meilleurs scores Hollywoodien. Si tu aime regarde aussi ses compositions pour Truffaut et Godard.
Yes. until I again saw "Platoon" recently, for the first time in probably nearly 20 years, I did not realize "Adagio for Strings" was in the soundtrack. (Rather, at that time, I was not familiar with the piece.)
A wonderful friend of mine had this played at the funeral of her little son Joshua, he fell asleep and died quietly in her arms aged 2, without warning. It absolutely rips the tears from me in seconds. Blessings little Joshua.
@@msdsecretary8702 ...are you 12 years old? You sound like it? Isn't that too young to have a baby?...well actually probably normal in your family. Bye bye!
This is Samuel Barber's masterpiece--his exquisitely beautiful, hauntingly stirring work recognized throughout the world. It has been played repeatedly during national times of mourning, e.g., the funerals of FDR and Einstein, after the assassination of JFK, and after 9/11. When I'm feeling particularly sad, I listen to my favorite recording of this Adagio (Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony). Remarkably, after I have my good cry, I do feel better afterward and am reminded once more of Barber's extraordinary talent. I often think to myself, 'How fortunate we are to be able to listen to such breathtakingly stunning music.' Of note, Barber composed this when he was just 26.
This reminds me of the sadness inside a truly beautiful person that I know who unfortunately failed to see their own internal and external beauty. It is haunting and beautiful, filled with deep pain. It has to be the best piece ever composed.
There’s no other piece of music that so vividly scores my victories and defeats in life … a true push/pull of emotions that haunt and elate at the same time🥹
I grew up listening to opera and classical music thanks to my dear father. This music gets into your soul. You can almost taste it. So emotional. Rest in peace dad, thank you for the music. ❤
How can anyone play this without sobbing their eyes out? This is the most touching piece of music ever written. Especially coming from Detroit where everything is falling apart.
MarkGTR - So beautiful. Everytime i hear this the movie platoon pops into my head as it was played when William Dafoe was was being chansed out of the jungle. A song and scene i will never forget.
This shows the human condition. Unparralled. The most human song I've ever heard. Encapsalates what it means to be a human, perfectly. Thank you Samuel Barber!
The first time I heard this song, the hair on my body stood straight up and I was frozen in my steps. Such beauty deserves honor. This piece turned me toward classical music, and I have managed to find some lovely, lovely pieces. But none compare to this masterpiece.
How about: The second movement Adagio from Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony and the third movement Adagio from his 8th? The fourth movement Adagio from Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony, as well as the Adagio Finale from his 3rd, the Adagietto from his 5th and the Andante from his 6th? The third movement Romanza from Ralph Vaughan William's 5th Symphony? The entire Third Symphony of Henryk Gorecki?
The first time I heard it was on clip on the 911 world trade center jumpers.I was mesmerized.Looked high and low for it till I got the orchestra playing it.
PLEASE let us NEVER LOSE CLASSICAL MUSIC Granted writing the score for such masterpieces is extremely difficult, but the reward is shear HEAVEN! Thank ALL of you ARTISTS for keeping this ALIVE!
Me : I refuse, You're THE Doctor, Doctor WHO !!! HELP ME !!! Doctor : I can't, You're a fixed point in the Univers. I can't do anything. Me : NOOOOOOOOOOOO Doctore : Don't be afraid. Your endlife is necessary to begin a new era of human peace. With your death, a new human cycle will born and a beautiful way and adventure will begin for the humanity throught the Univers. You dead will inspired myriad of generations to fight for freedom and egality !!! In future, you name will be synonym of.... What happens ? Me : argghhhhhhhhhh ..... @#%£ dead Doctor : Damned, he's dead before I finish my explanation.
We played this at contest in high school just before my Granny’s death. I could hear it playing at her funeral in my head. It’s been 40 years and I listen to it fondly now.
years ago...when I was a single parent....living in an old broken down trailer out in the woods of south Georgia [USA] I used to blast this out in the woods every so often ....I was broke and barely making ends meet.... I felt like every time I played this that Jehovah would hear my sadness....it is my favorite piece of music as well....Lisa
It is a comfort to know that your situational poverty did not prevent you from appreciating this beautiful piece of music. And that you occasionally shared it with the wild creatures living around your modest home in the wilds of southern Georgia is an added bonus. Hope you are doing much better these days.
I hope, Lisa, that circumstances are much better for you now. Bless you and doesn't it help to know that music can help sustain us, even in the darkest times? Obviously you have many friends on here, including me.
This music is so so so sad 😭😭😭😢 💔 my daughter was found deceased by the Police at Christmas and I came across this music wow started crying 😭😭😢 💔 miss you love you Caroline ❤️ love mum.xxx
This turns at the screaming soul of every man and woman who faces battle. It is desperately speaking to my beloved loved one while my heart cries infinitely. It expresses my inner belonging. It makes me believe in my grandfather's soul. When my soul cried, that's the sound I listened. We should all listen to this and cry. 0:00-8:50 moved me to remembering the battles of my heart's soul.
This piece changed my teachers life made her become the great violinist and teacher that she is today. I’ve heard this piece but never paid it any attention as I prefer upbeat jumpy. After she had explained to me how it so profoundly changed her life I started listening, been listening for days now on repeat. I understand.
5:12-5:56 always makes me cry. The rising tension in this section has so much despair overflowing that it feels as if a breakdown of the soul is imminent
So melancholy...breaks ones heart..music goes on and on making one cry for the lost ones...for the bygone days...for everything one couldn't achieve in life...ultimately the soul finds peace! Beautiful piece of music!
Its took me 59 years to appreciate the classics I love soul dance reggae and even punk I loved the sex pistols but here and now classical music bring me to tears as no other music has all my life x
barber was of my fathers generation, but his adagio will still be played and interpreted and admired and enjoyed and loved long after my generation has come and gone
Today marks the first day I ever heard this song, and while I thought it expressed sadness my significant other believed it expressed hopefulness and a new beginning. Nonetheless no matter how you perceive this piece, we can agree that it's full of emotion and beauty
When I was a kid, I always fast forwarded the Platoon VHS tape to the end. Just to hear this masterpiece. It always calmed me down. This is definately the song to be played at my funeral.
Rico this song was on my answering machine thirty years ago. Every day this guy would have to call me to give me his order for the next day. One afternoon I didn’t answer and the machine picked up. After he recorded his order, he said he called back three times just to hear it.
This glorious piece of music brings so many of us to a place of pure joy, heartache, loss, hope and beauty. All the loss, fear and sorrow of this unbelievable year of this earth’s pandemic. Listen and let this beautiful creation soak into your being. Let the tears flow. Thank you to all our first responders. Your dedication is truly appreciated. 😘😘😘😘🙋🏻
And in times of private mourning, as now when our family mourns the loss of a granddaughter who died after four months in the womb. We miss and love you, baby Margaret.
I first heard this piece of music when I was 14, since then for every day I have listen to it, I am now 39. This music is by far thee most amazing, wonderful and peaceful piece of music I have ever heard and will ever hear in my life. I absolutely love this with all of my heart. I don't have anyone in my life to dedicate it too but whomever is feeling low and/or down then please listen to this, listen to the music.....the sounds and you'll see and feel how amazing it is and i'm sure you'll smile inside and out.
mum I love you so much ,I did everything I could ,words cannot say ,put on your lippy ,and rest in peace, I love you so much and will never forget you Al xx
Music doesn't get any better than this. I think this piece was written by the Angels for Christ himself. Thank you for sharing it with us Jesus. I will dance to this at my funeral...
My mom taught me a love of Classical, and I trained as a Classical pianist. And this is the genre I return to when the melancholy strikes and I need to be reminded of the aching joy of being alive, each second is a transitory and exquisite gift, if you will open up to it. Thanks Mom, as I approached our home 60 years ago getting off the school bus, I'd hear our stereo cranked up with Rachmaninoff or Beethoven or Broadway....miss you.
I first heard Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings whilst watching the film The Elephant Man and wept it moved me so much. Such a deeply emotional piece.
I first heard this Beautiful music when I went to see the movie "Platoon" that starred Charlie Sheen as a young Vietnam soldier. At the end of the movie. He was carried away from the slaughter in a helicopter and then the camera panned back and you could see the bodies of both armies lying DEAD everywhere in the background. Right there and then, without any words spoken, I GOT the message that WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS and this music changed my attitude to life and other human beings INSTANTLY, and I just broke down and wept uncontrollably. I have taught this invaluable lesson/truth to my own grandchildren and to anyone else who cares to listen. We ARE ALL ONE, it's our governments that tells us were "different" from "them". Live in Gentle Peace my Brothers and Sisters for in TRUTH, WE ARE ALL ONE Namste 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
William Paterson You have to remember in one of the last scenes of that movie,when William DeFoe is running towards the LZ, and he raises his arms as the helicopters fly off without him....
As I type this message streams of sorrowful tears bounce off my laptop keyboard. The beauty of this piece has made me blind with tears. Beautiful. Beautiful Beautiful. Yours, Charlie.
This is one of my favorite pieces of music. It tugs at my soul; it speaks to my very being. I am an organist/keyboardist. I was the organist for my grandmother’s funeral. This is one of the things I played on the pipe organ for her service.
i am not sure which is more beautiful, this astonishingly gorgeous piece of immortal music, or the sensitive, heartwarming, deeply soul-felt comments i am reading here in the comments section. i have to say that these are the kinds of things that remind me that there may be hope for humanity after all
When Samuel Barber sat down one morning in 1936 and wrote this, I wonder whether he felt the hand of God on his shoulder. It is sublime to an extent that is hard to describe and the only piece of music that moves me to tears every time I hear it.
This beautiful Samuel Barber Adagio in Memory of 10 months your funeral was my beloved child Pietro Orlando...R.I.P. in Heaven my dear little Angel. Dad sad Ciro Orlando.....Thanks DSO and RU-vid.
Earlier today, one of my cats passed away due to complications of him being of old age. We got him from one of our neighbor's apartments flooded and with them being my parent's friend, my mom took him and their other cat in and adopted them both. Lately he hasn't been well and his previous owner and my mom both scheduled a vet appointment for him, but when he reached the vet, he was doing really worse. It was their decision to put him to sleep. We've had them for 8 months now in September of 2020, and since then, he and Dior (the other cat) have been both amazing and wonderful companions to us and our other two cats we already had prior to taking them in. I know it may have only been a few months that we've had them, but in those few months, we've had plenty nice and enjoyed times together, and we're really going to miss him. When I hear this song, I think of you and Jasper (who passed in 2016). I miss you both so so much, you have no idea. Rest easy George
@@carlospena98 Come on, man. How can you be so cold? Most of them did'nt even want to go but they were ordered to do so and if they refused, they were gonna get court-martialled.
@@carlospena98 Well you see? there you have it... Now u practically said it yourself: They refused, they get court martialled. But i really don't think you should blame the lower ranking soldiers like Privates, Private First Class, Corporals, etc as it was'nt their decission. They were ordered to so they pretty much had no choice. In other words: it was either "Fight" or "Court Martial"
@@PaulScholtes1980 then they did have a choice, theys simply chose the cowards way and went to kill people who were fighting for their independence overseas, truly the most vile people these ¨privates, privates first class, etc¨
I saw this movie with my husband and son. My son was in college and we went to see this before he headed back from break. My tears ran when this music played for all those poor men who died there. I thought if my son had been born earlier, it could have been him. My husbands cousin was killed there. They were carrying wounded to a helicopter and he was shot in the back, his second tour.
