Word: adagio
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Remix of “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber, “Every Breath You Take” by the Police and the American spiritual “I’ll Fly Away?...
...only commissioned American ballet to be in three acts. Given that it's a full evening of dance, there are all kinds of limitations in terms of how much a human being can be taxed. In symphonic works, you can have an adagio that lasts 40 minutes, but in ballet, it would be far too taxing for a soloist onstage that long...
...Seated on a leather piano bench, Harrell opened the adagio-moderato movement of Sir Edward Elgar’s “Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85” with a declamatory broken chord. Harrell—who made his BSO debut in November 1978—favored a smoother, lighter touch to the opening theme, as opposed to the heavily sustained passion of English cellist Jacqueline Du Pré’s definitive 1965 recording of the concerto with the London Symphony...
...sonatas and Schubert impromptus that sometimes verge on eccentricity, and of Beethoven sonatas and Schumann fantasies that often threaten to collapse beneath their own structural weight. The highlight of the set is his 1965 Carnegie Hall concert, with a nervous Horowitz skirting disaster in the opening Bach-Busoni Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major before righting himself and going on to give one of the most thrilling live performances in the history of recorded sound. Another impressive recital is the 1968 television concert, which features Horowitz's best, most graceful reading of Schumann's gentle Arabeske as well...
...final piece of the evening was Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55.” The symphony is a narrative depicting the phases of life in four movements. Particularly illustrative was the second movement, “Adagio assai,” which aims for the harmonies and rhythms of a funeral march. The various solos in the wind section evoked the solemn organ part in a funeral mass. Following this somber movement, the orchestra moved easily into the uplifting third movement and finale...