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Disc 1:- Adagio for Strings - Barber, Samuel
- Andante
- O mio babbino caro
- Warsaw Concerto - Addinsell
- John dunbar Theme
- Intermezzo
- Adagio sostenuto (except)
- Gabriel's Oboe
- The heart asks pleasure first
- Romance
- Adagio
- Soave sia il vento
- Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana
- Largo
- Adagio sostenuto
- Adagio (excerpt)
- Lacrimosa
Disc 2:- Scene (Opening of Act 2)
- Barcarolle
- Adagio un poco mosso
- Adagio - Moderato (excerpt)
- Adagio
- Largo, ma non tanto
- Clair de Lune - Debussy, Claude
- Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
- Symphony No. 5 Adagietto - Mahler
- Air
- Che soave zeffretto (Letter Duet)
- Un bel di
- Canon in D major
- Adagio (excerpt)
- Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Op. 3 No. 2 Ut Dièse Mineur Cis-Moll ... - Rachmaninov, Sergei
- We have all the time in the world
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Good Peaceful Music
It is good driving music, it is a breath of fresh air in a hectic world.
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movie adagios
This CD was all that I hoped for. Beautiful, evocative music just made for a relaxing evening at home.
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If You Love Classical Music, This CD Is For You
This compilation of movie themes is one of the most pleasurable CD's you'll ever own.
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Probably Decca's best "Adagios" set
I say "probably," since it's hard to outdo its "Beethoven Adagios" set. I've only bought a few of these "Adagios" sets because, looking over the track listings of so many, there's just so much overlap. Here, you get the best single collection of the bunch. Here, I was introduced to Addinsell's "Warsaw Concerto," and for that alone it was worth the price. But let's not forget a significant number of other gorgeous classic adagios: Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto (used in a gorgeous film, "Picnic at Hanging Rock"), Bach's "Air on a G String," Mahler's Adaghietto from Symphony no. 5, some obligatory Mozart, the Barber adagio, Debussy's Claire de lune, and - oh lovely! - Schubert's String Quintet in C. Then there are much-appreciated entries (Cinema Paradiso, Gabriel's Oboe) from a personal favorite composer, Ennio Morricone, one of the actual official film composers (as distinct from long-dead composers whose music was used in film) used for this collection, along with a couple from another personal favorite, John Barry. (You'd really need to get Barry's own set of "adagios," titled "Moviola," to get his best, e.g., the title theme to "Out of Africa" and to "Somewhere in Time." For Morricone, the master of the romantic adagio in the past century, go with "Itinerary of a Genius" or individual soundtracks like "Legend of 1900," "Lolita," "Once Upon a Time in America," "Once Upon a Time in the West," and others.)
A couple drawbacks to this set: (1) The adagio from Rachmaninov's 2nd is truncated to a mere 4 minutes. For this, one is well advised to purchase a CD with the entire concerto, or get a full version of just the adagio elsewhere (Decca does include a full version on its "Romantic Adagios" collection). (2) So much from so many composers is included, that there is too little room for more Beethoven. I'd prefer the adagio from the "Pathetique" sonata to the "Moonlight" one which was included here. For Beethoven adagios, you need the "Beethoven Adagios" set as an accompaniment (where you get, among other things, adagios for the op. 130 string quartet, the 6th symphony, the violin concerto, piano concerto no. 3, the 7th symphony, and the romance for violin no. 2, op. 50). If you're a fan of Mozart music often used in the movies, there's the "Mozart Adagios" set and/or the "Amadeus" soundtrack.
I'm a "purist" as to a few works; I'd rather hear the entirety of the "Emperor" concerto than merely the adagio, for instance. In plenty of other cases, an adagio movement is heard just fine as a stand-alone work; plenty of the most beautiful music is used for adagio movements, as these sets make clear enough.