TDCM: November 10th - Samuel Barber

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Bio

2x Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer and Prix de Rome winner. Barber studied in Philadelphia and held a Guggenheim Fellowship. His earliest composition to achieve notoriety was published in 1929 and he remained relevant well into his 60s.

Music

Adagio for Strings

Violin Concerto Op. 14

I. Un poco adagio - Allegro con sprito

II. Andante con moto

III. Dance - Allegro giocoso

The School for Scandal, Op. 5

Music for a Scene from Shelley, Op. 7

Symphony No. 1, Op. 9: I. Allegro ma non troppo

Symphony No. 1, Op. 9: II. Allegro molto

Symphony No. 1, Op. 9: III. Andante tranquillo

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

First Essays for Orchestra, Op. 12

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Presto in motor perpetuoso

Second Essay, Op. 17

Commando March

Funeral March

Symphony No. 2, Op. 19: I. Allegro ma non troppo

Symphony No. 2, Op. 19: II. Andante, un poco mosso

Symphony No. 2, Op. 19: III. Presto, senza battuto - Allegro risoluto

Capricorn Concerto, Op. 21: I. Allegro ma non troppo

Capricorn Concerto, Op. 21: II. Allegretto

Capricorn Concerto, Op. 21: III. Allegro con brio

I. Allegro moderato

II. Andante sostenuto

III. Molto allegro e appassionato

Horizon

I. Parados

II. Choros. Medea and Jason

III. The Young Princess. Jason

IV. Choros

V. Medea

VI. Kantikos Agonias

VII. Exodos

Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a

Thanks for listening!