This 8 minutes of perfection manages to make me as calm and serene as i could ever feel, but at the same time making me feel like my heart and soul have been ripped out.... beautiful music.
Being an atheist, this music is still incredibly beautiful. The beauty of religion is in things like this, pieces of music, in art, the beauty of it is all in the art. You can't help but to love the beauty. This is a marvelous piece of music, composed by an extraordinary composer. You don't have to be a believer to have respect for the art and music.
+Alfredo Punzi I know it has nothing to do with religion, my point is I, a muslim enjoy listening to this song. In my country, this type of music is associated with church or Christianity which it is not encouraged in my religion to enjoy..
To be fair its a choral arrangement of Adagio for Strings set to the words of a Latin Mass so to many this particular work has a great deal to do with Catholicism. For me its a stunningly beautiful and haunting work with its religious interpretation or not.
The start of the build up at 5:10 reaching it's full glory at 5:29 and continuing until they stop before the softness of the choir comes back gets me every time.
Words cannot ever describe the feelings that music may portray and words may divide where music can bring us together, for music is the expression of the heart and the most inner emotions of humans, where we are all not too different in our longing for peace and peace of mind.
I cannot listen to this song without crying. The power of this song is so moving. It is truly beautiful. Oh, what I would give to see this performed live...
La bellezza di questa composizione è veramente unica: si coglie tutto il dolore per i peccati dell'uomo accanto alla salvezza divina. Il suono e la parola si combinano in una perfezione eccezionale. Siamo ancora una volta di fronte all'indicibile: per quanto ci si sforzi con la lingua di tradurre concettualmente i significati di questo brano, c'è qualcoso che ci sfugge, qualcosa appunto di intraducibile. La musica ci trasmette un'armonia celestiale che le parole non riescono a spiegare con i concetti.
Bello comentario. Es así. Las palabras no pueden expresar como la música la belleza y la profundidad de la Gracia divina. Cumplimenti desde España, amigo.
Agnus Dei es una de las composiciones mas extraordinarias que se hayan compuesto en la historia de la musica, es realmente deliciosa escucharla y la quietud de espiritu y la paz del alma que transmite esta melodia, que la hace realmente deliciosa y hermosa¡.
Very few of us can understand the words - this just goes to show that music is above words. Once while singing in a choir I had a 'Musical Experience" - I lost awareness of my physical being and rose up above the choir by about 10 meters. After a few moments, when my conscious 'monkey mind' noticed what was happening I was instantly back on the risers, singing as per usual. But for that moment I was 'one with the music'. absolutely magical.
Je ne suis pas croyante mais l'Agnus Dein pourrait bien me faire croire en Dieu, aux anges et à tout le reste... Il y a une telle force dans cette musique ! C'est incroyable.
Yesterday in my Church we experienced Gods presence there were nothing sad in it. Purest joy and gladness. This song is full of sadness to me. I don’t sense presence of my Living God in here. This is only human art.
upon the sky, the clouds dividing a very bright light shine from above through the center way of clouds voices of angels heard and they sing this song they hail for God comes to earth for mercy (this is my perspective imagination when 18y old)
La musica di questo meraviglioso canto è un sublime veicolo all'invocazione di perdono rivolta a Dio, parole e musica sono un tutt'uno per formare una umile ma profonda preghiera
i love both Barber's adagio for strings and agnus dei, but when it comes down to it, the choir version is significantly more emotional than the strings, but i still love them both
Une exécution parfaite, un chef de choeur professionel, des solistes hallucinants, une acoustique idéale!... Bref, un moment céleste hors du temps, cette interprétation est la meilleure de tous les temps! Frissons garanties à chaque écoutes et Dieu sait combien il y en a eu!!!
Du coup ça fait 6216' soit 103h06 soit 4j3h d'Agnus Dei d'écoute!... Etant donné que je l'ai découvert il y a 10 ans... Ouais c'est fort possible que ce soit 777 fois!
The impression sank into my heart . Impression passed through all my internalorgans and penetrates my soul and plucked the heartstrings strongly. Unimpeachable performance ！
lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world have mercy on us lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world have mercy on us lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world grant us peace
cecelia obrien agneau de dieu, qui enlève le péché du monde, prend pitié de nous. Agneau de dieu, qui enlève le péché du monde, prend pitié de nous. Agneau de dieu, qui enlève le péché du monde, donne nous la paix.
Agnello di Dio, che toglie i peccati del mondo, abbi pietà di noi. Agnello di Dio, che toglie i peccati del mondo, abbi pietà di noi. Agnello di Dio, che toglie i peccati del mondo, dona a noi la pace.
Esecuzione vocale degna di sincera lode... Toccante, intima e partecipata di quell'Adagio per Archi di Samuel Barber, che amo sopra ogni altro qualsiasi brano esistente al mondo
This was in Lorenzo's Oil. Agnus Dei was played when Lorenzo's parents have just received the terrible diagnosis of their young son. A scene later, Adagio for Strings is played when Lorenzo's dad is reading about the disease. Both Agnus Dei and Adagio for Strings are so beautiful 💙
I sang this in college choir. Listening to this again makes me wish I could go back to those days! Our director turned a shitty choir into an extraordinary one.
Dawno nie słuchałam niczego aż tak podniosłego. Do tej pory nad wszystkich przedkładałam Bacha, teraz uniosła mnie ta kompozycja i przepiękne wykonanie.
+Quentin Gamache (Quinn-Plays) Not desperate at all. I am in graphic design and print, socal, this song is the business while doing business! "marcus miller orchestra" also great to listen!
Unbelievable power in the opening three phrases. Lone note, then duotronic addition creating a diminished chord and finally a minor progression just to finish stomping your heart into talcum... wow. If there was ever a song worthy of the title Miserere mei, Devs, this is it. I cant think of no better song to encapsulate the horror of the bubonic plague... ;-; They were people and they each had stories... VIVRE AGN SOL
It's simply unbelievable the voracious ambitious of own insulting amount of money and yet sucks more and more at expense of poverty, ignorance and suffering. CZcams should put all the commercials at the end of master pieces like this!!!
MAGNIFIQUE !!!! J'ai mis cette très belle musique 🎼 à l'église 🏛, aux obsèques 🎚de feu mon Père 🖤, pour l'entrer du cercueil ⚰, le lundi 25 février 2019 🪦.
One can barely comprehend the beauty of this in the early hours...its as if I have seen heaven in all of her glory, beyond polarity, limitation and prejudice ..and when you have seen that, you know that the key thing in life is to 'die before you die' , and know there is no such thing as death...I shall trace you in the ether dear 'first mates and mutineers' 🐋
1. Agnus Dei, Op. 11 (Barber Adagio) [Excerpt] - Barber 2. Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 - Faure 3. Missa Papae Marcelli: I. Kyrie - Palestrina 4. Ave verum corpus, K. 618 - Mozart 5. Cantata No.147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' BWV147: X "Jesu bleibet meine Freude" [Jesu, Joy o - Bach 6. Vespers, Op. 37: VI. Ave Maria - Choir Of New College Oxford 7. Enigma Variations, Op. 36: X. Nimrod, "Lux aeterna" - Choir Of New College Oxford 8. Totus tuus, Op. 60 - Choir Of New College Oxford 9. Hear my Prayer (O for the Wings of a Dove) - Mendelssohn 10. The Lamb - Tavener 11. Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: VII. In Paradisum - Faure 12. Miserere mei - Choir Of New College Oxford
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem. which means: Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
I wish I could demonstrate to all listening to this most exquisitely haunting of melodies, and reading my words, the full measure of the transcendent bliss and the aethereal exhilaration Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei means to and for me. I have an extraordinarily wide vocal range that enables me to sing all eight registers of the chorus. Whilst at university, a friend who then had been a piano performance major of considerable ability told me that I could sing from the fifth ledger line below the bass clef to the D above high C (and once an A)! Yes, I even now can voice nearly all this grand piece; just the highest couple of notes. Unfortunately, I lack the resources to train and to develop my talents (I also aspire to be a novelist) to marketable skills, that I could earn a worthwhile living; and conceivably, actual wealth, which could enable me to facilitate others in their own efforts to enhance their capacity.
+Kornelia McKenzie Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings (1936). In 1967, he set the Latin words of the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, for mixed chorus with optional organ or piano accompaniment.
First heard this when I went to watch Platoon, Daniel Dafoe getting shot to ribbons as he was left behind, awesome moving scene. Bought it on vinyl following day and still have it. Still sounds amazing compressed
+Jaikie Perry-Sloan Best game ever... best story, best OSB... Actually it's Adaggio for String. I play the original several times and now i play the new Remastered
Whenever I listen to this it takes me away from all the bad things in this world. And for just 8 minutes it's peace and I don't have to worry about the awful things I hear on the news. When music can do that to you, I think it's just wonderful. But still my friends think Iggy Azalea is the best artist alive.
THIS IS THE MUSIC PLAYED IN THE MOVIE 'PLATOON' ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR. WE LOST MANY YOUNG MEN DRAFTED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL REQUIRED BY LAW TO GO TO WAR AT AGE 18 WITH AN AVERAGE AGE OF 22 SOME SAY. IT HAS SPECIAL MEANING 'AGNUS DEI' LAMB OF GOD BY BARBER
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
+Armchair General for your tomorrow they gave their today,great words from Burma.as is ,to all the world you were only one,to me you were all the world.grave of crpl JJ Curley died 1944 age 29 Burma.
To all the people who say they like this even though they aren't religious, the music is not religious, just the text. Samuel Barber originally wrote this as an instrumental piece only, called Adagio for Strings. It wasn't until almost 30 years later that he made a choral arrangement of it with these words.
It's all about context. The melody for the US national anthem was taken from an English drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven". Yet the melody is now only associated with the US anthem. The US also "borrowed" the melody from the British national anthem, "God Save the Queen", and applied it to "My Country tis of Thee". Elgar's "Nimrod" was adapted by John Cameron as "Lux Aeterna". So, when Barber, who wrote this melody, chose to use the Adagio in conjunction with "Agnus Dei", this version became "religious". I've heard it performed in Catholic Mass and in Lutheran services.
The incredible beauty that man is able to create is not evidence of Heaven. Heaven and Hell are not places that we are destined for... because they are already within each of us.
Ascoltai tempo fa nella Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo in Foggia(italy) l'esecuzione di questo brano all'organo! Ne rimasi colpito! Davvero un'esecuzione intensa !
I wonder why does it makes me cry like a baby...must be the spirit that inspired the author, God tends to make us go to him with joy for beauty.
It remains me of the Passion of our dear Lord Jesus, the Christ.
I Feel The Same.God is Close To You When You Heard This Music Miracle.
This 8 minutes of perfection manages to make me as calm and serene as i could ever feel, but at the same time making me feel like my heart and soul have been ripped out.... beautiful music.
delicious comment Simon, you took the words right out of my mouth, like so many enlightened beings from the East
You described it perfectly Simon!
Amen, brother.
@@peterwaters4119 tf is happening 💀
He was homosexual.
Being an atheist, this music is still incredibly beautiful. The beauty of religion is in things like this, pieces of music, in art, the beauty of it is all in the art. You can't help but to love the beauty. This is a marvelous piece of music, composed by an extraordinary composer. You don't have to be a believer to have respect for the art and music.
+Christian Anderson You weren't named appropriately then really, were you?
+saltnsaucedammit bum dum tiss
+saltnsaucedammit Sweet irony there.
+Christian Anderson
Atheists only think they are smart - they are actually stupid.
Don't confuse culture with religion.
I don't think I have cried to any other song as much as this. Simply beautiful.
Never heard anything more beautiful in my life.
now sit down and listen to lots of J.S.Bach...how about h i s Agnus dei from the H-Moll Mass.....!
Even i am a Muslim, i found out that this choir is just simply breathtaking.. and calming..
+adi daneal Religion has nothing to do here... It's just a cover from Adaggio for String from Samuel Barber
+Alfredo Punzi I know it has nothing to do with religion, my point is I, a muslim enjoy listening to this song. In my country, this type of music is associated with church or Christianity which it is not encouraged in my religion to enjoy..
To be fair its a choral arrangement of Adagio for Strings set to the words of a Latin Mass so to many this particular work has a great deal to do with Catholicism. For me its a stunningly beautiful and haunting work with its religious interpretation or not.
um ur wrong research befor u speak this song is for jesus christ the lamb of god
this is religion. people stained it, but this is the crux of religion...God.
The start of the build up at 5:10 reaching it's full glory at 5:29 and continuing until they stop before the softness of the choir comes back gets me every time.
The best part, it's a real goosebumps moment, the harmonies are perfect.
Words cannot ever describe the feelings that music may portray and words may divide where music can bring us together, for music is the expression of the heart and the most inner emotions of humans, where we are all not too different in our longing for peace and peace of mind.
I cannot listen to this song without crying. The power of this song is so moving. It is truly beautiful. Oh, what I would give to see this performed live...
Yes
Makes me cry every time. Powerful thing music.
La bellezza di questa composizione è veramente unica: si coglie tutto il dolore per i peccati dell'uomo accanto alla salvezza divina. Il suono e la parola si combinano in una perfezione eccezionale. Siamo ancora una volta di fronte all'indicibile: per quanto ci si sforzi con la lingua di tradurre concettualmente i significati di questo brano, c'è qualcoso che ci sfugge, qualcosa appunto di intraducibile. La musica ci trasmette un'armonia celestiale che le parole non riescono a spiegare con i concetti.
Bello comentario. Es así. Las palabras no pueden expresar como la música la belleza y la profundidad de la Gracia divina. Cumplimenti desde España, amigo.
Grazie mille.@@josemanuelruizfernandez7481
C'est vraiment extraordinaire, d'une beauté sans pareille!
Agnus Dei es una de las composiciones mas extraordinarias que se hayan compuesto en la historia de la musica, es realmente deliciosa escucharla y la quietud de espiritu y la paz del alma que transmite esta melodia, que la hace realmente deliciosa y hermosa¡.
I'll hide you in my heart , there where I can find you ..
Pray for me , so I Can rest in peace .
Agnus Dei,
quitollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei,
quitollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei,
quitollis peccata mundi: dona nobis pacem.
I don't get the whole point about how this is sad, lamb is fucking delicious.
Maybe it's the lamb singing
kevin morrison
delicious sufferinɡ
The Lamb is another name for Jesus
Amen
When I listen to this music, I feel like I'm close to transcendance. That there's something above me.
All men on Earth, praise the God. Our Lord have mercy on our souls. For we are sinners. Forgive us, Father.
Heavenly. Listen to the whole piece to fall into its depth with all your heart.
samuel barber!!!!!
Kevin Soju ????
look at the title of the youtube video
daym ..i cant express any feeling after this song....its really out of this world...sth magical..sth extraordinary
Kevin Soju Ikr! wow.
Sounds like a heavenly choir of angels - just breathtakingly beautiful...
Possibly the greatest music in history.
Very few of us can understand the words - this just goes to show that music is above words. Once while singing in a choir I had a 'Musical Experience" - I lost awareness of my physical being and rose up above the choir by about 10 meters. After a few moments, when my conscious 'monkey mind' noticed what was happening I was instantly back on the risers, singing as per usual. But for that moment I was 'one with the music'. absolutely magical.
I can hear the glory of God
You mean Yato
Amen
Je ne suis pas croyante mais l'Agnus Dein pourrait bien me faire croire en Dieu, aux anges et à tout le reste... Il y a une telle force dans cette musique ! C'est incroyable.
Music should always be this beautiful. This sings right to my soul.
hermoso regalo de Dios no se como llegué ha estos cantos gracias mi bendito Padre celestial😙👏👏👏🕊
Yesterday in my Church we experienced Gods presence there were nothing sad in it. Purest joy and gladness. This song is full of sadness to me. I don’t sense presence of my Living God in here. This is only human art.
upon the sky, the clouds dividing
a very bright light shine from above through the center way of clouds
voices of angels heard and they sing this song
they hail for God comes to earth for mercy
(this is my perspective imagination when 18y old)
Here it is. The melody of Adagio for Strings in a beautiful choral work.
+Stuart Safford not a surprise, Barber wrote both compositions.
Brings tears to my eyes every time.
So beautiful ! God took Barber's hand and guided him through Beauty !
Peace and endless joy listening to this !
Boy's voice is one of the pure things in the world.
La musica di questo meraviglioso canto è un sublime veicolo all'invocazione di perdono rivolta a Dio, parole e musica sono un tutt'uno per formare una umile ma profonda preghiera
I am crying. Every time.
i love both Barber's adagio for strings and agnus dei, but when it comes down to it, the choir version is significantly more emotional than the strings, but i still love them both
This is unbelievably powerful!!
John Appleseed Amen!
Just lovely.......perfect....beautiful.....
I can't get enough with this intoxicating piece! unbelievably mesmerizing!
All the contrary desintoxicating☝️🙂👼!
@@adaneden4828 The toxics plants are not bads they are the god’s fruits
Une exécution parfaite, un chef de choeur professionel, des solistes hallucinants, une acoustique idéale!... Bref, un moment céleste hors du temps, cette interprétation est la meilleure de tous les temps! Frissons garanties à chaque écoutes et Dieu sait combien il y en a eu!!!
Du coup ça fait 6216' soit 103h06 soit 4j3h d'Agnus Dei d'écoute!... Etant donné que je l'ai découvert il y a 10 ans... Ouais c'est fort possible que ce soit 777 fois!
A stunning performance by one of the world's greatest choirs of men and boys. I believe they won a grammy for this album.
I love music like this so much. I wish all music was this beautiful.
Gorgeous music....makes me cry and yearn for a higher power's help in our tortured nation
The impression sank into my heart .
Impression passed through all my internalorgans and penetrates my soul and plucked the heartstrings strongly.
Unimpeachable performance ！
lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world have mercy on us
lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world have mercy on us
lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world grant us peace
cecelia obrien
agneau de dieu, qui enlève le péché du monde, prend pitié de nous.
Agneau de dieu, qui enlève le péché du monde, prend pitié de nous.
Agneau de dieu, qui enlève le péché du monde, donne nous la paix.
Hallelujah!
Agnello di Dio, che toglie i peccati del mondo, abbi pietà di noi. Agnello di Dio, che toglie i peccati del mondo, abbi pietà di noi. Agnello di Dio, che toglie i peccati del mondo, dona a noi la pace.
Grazie Antonio
Thank you amen
I may not be religious, but this is beautiful.
You don't have to be religious to enjoy music you know
Harvey Bower True.
Another comment on the same night I posted... Wow.
Harvey Bower Well, this is awkward, isn't it? ...
Chasetherabbit Umm is it?
my eyes are tears my this is out of the world....so beautiful
Sublime.
after a hard day at work and mug of coffee and Samuel Barbers agnus dai is just about perfect talk about instant unwinding
This moves me to a beautiful place, where inner and outer unite. Superb!!!!
my absolute favourite piece of music ever.
Esecuzione vocale degna di sincera lode...
Toccante, intima e partecipata di quell'Adagio per Archi di Samuel Barber, che amo sopra ogni altro qualsiasi brano esistente al mondo
Superior imposible, Majestuoso.
This is the most beautiful music ever written and The Choir of New College has given a perfect enactment!
Agnus Dei and Miserere Mei Deus.
Two great pieces to listen to. They put me at ease when I'm troubled.
***** yes , both pieces can bring complete chills , in a solemn moment , a quiet evening of reflection
AGNUS DEI è meravigliosa
Domine Deus Jesu Christe misere nobi nunc et semper..
This was in Lorenzo's Oil.
Agnus Dei was played when Lorenzo's parents have just received the terrible diagnosis of their young son.
A scene later, Adagio for Strings is played when Lorenzo's dad is reading about the disease.
Both Agnus Dei and Adagio for Strings are so beautiful
💙
I sang this in college choir. Listening to this again makes me wish I could go back to those days! Our director turned a shitty choir into an extraordinary one.
Dawno nie słuchałam niczego aż tak podniosłego. Do tej pory nad wszystkich przedkładałam Bacha, teraz uniosła mnie ta kompozycja i przepiękne wykonanie.
Awesome sung and fantastic composition by Barber. Totally relaxing.....
Listening to this while I'm browsing for job offers in Graphical Design.
Yup. *That* desperate.
+Quentin Gamache (Quinn-Plays) Not desperate at all. I am in graphic design and print, socal, this song is the business while doing business!
"marcus miller orchestra" also great to listen!
xxxxdarksidexxxx
Maybe not where you're from, but in Belgium, it is. :/
+QuinnPlays Well damn in America I think it's a highly respected job,fuck everybody else do what you love I guess
+QuinnPlays Britain just cut the arts budget, I feel your pain. I'm writing my dissertation to this :) the calm before the storm it seems...
+Stephen Mills Britain is cutting and cutting and cutting and in the end the desperate will cut our throats and not the ones of the posh.
Very Heavenly!!!🙏🏻👼🏼
Unbelievable power in the opening three phrases. Lone note, then duotronic addition creating a diminished chord and finally a minor progression just to finish stomping your heart into talcum... wow. If there was ever a song worthy of the title Miserere mei, Devs, this is it. I cant think of no better song to encapsulate the horror of the bubonic plague... ;-; They were people and they each had stories... VIVRE AGN SOL
This song is a beautiful poem
This is so beautiful, I listen to this when I want to clear my mind
Es preciosa esta canción, hace que me duela el corazón y me entre una nostalgia de algo.
It's simply unbelievable the voracious ambitious of own insulting amount of money and yet sucks more and more at expense of poverty, ignorance and suffering. CZcams should put all the commercials at the end of master pieces like this!!!
"How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die." Rachel Ward
MAGNIFIQUE !!!! J'ai mis cette très belle musique 🎼 à l'église 🏛, aux obsèques 🎚de feu mon Père 🖤, pour l'entrer du cercueil ⚰, le lundi
25 février 2019 🪦.
Perfeição divina..................................................................................................................................
One can barely comprehend the beauty of this in the early hours...its as if I have seen heaven in all of her glory, beyond polarity, limitation and prejudice ..and when you have seen that, you know that the key thing in life is to 'die before you die' , and know there is no such thing as death...I shall trace you in the ether dear 'first mates and mutineers' 🐋
1. Agnus Dei, Op. 11 (Barber Adagio) [Excerpt] - Barber
2. Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 - Faure
3. Missa Papae Marcelli: I. Kyrie - Palestrina
4. Ave verum corpus, K. 618 - Mozart
5. Cantata No.147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' BWV147: X "Jesu bleibet meine Freude" [Jesu, Joy o - Bach
6. Vespers, Op. 37: VI. Ave Maria - Choir Of New College Oxford
7. Enigma Variations, Op. 36: X. Nimrod, "Lux aeterna" - Choir Of New College Oxford
8. Totus tuus, Op. 60 - Choir Of New College Oxford
9. Hear my Prayer (O for the Wings of a Dove) - Mendelssohn
10. The Lamb - Tavener
11. Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: VII. In Paradisum - Faure
12. Miserere mei - Choir Of New College Oxford
THEY SING DIS IN HEAVEN TO GLORIFY GOD, DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER
+Jesus Christ not the same melody forever........boring
Simply "wunderbar"!..
Full Cd at home-love it !!
CD is a must have!
B.L.,germany
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
which means:
Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
I wish I could demonstrate to all listening to this most exquisitely haunting of melodies, and reading my words, the full measure of the transcendent bliss and the aethereal exhilaration Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei means to and for me.
I have an extraordinarily wide vocal range that enables me to sing all eight registers of the chorus. Whilst at university, a friend who then had been a piano performance major of considerable ability told me that I could sing from the fifth ledger line below the bass clef to the D above high C (and once an A)!
Yes, I even now can voice nearly all this grand piece; just the highest couple of notes.
Unfortunately, I lack the resources to train and to develop my talents (I also aspire to be a novelist) to marketable skills, that I could earn a worthwhile living; and conceivably, actual wealth, which could enable me to facilitate others in their own efforts to enhance their capacity.
Beautiful piece, I never really was religious, but it was one of my favourite pieces to sing in choir.
Que maravilhoso som... A beleza do som que nos conecta a Deus.
Possiedo questa compilation di musica sacra è meravigliosa e commovente
Thank yoy DarkLFlow for this post. This is a truly beautiful song. 🤓
"music is useless, but life would be sad without it", Barbara Streisand
so much peace and purity in silence
A little tidbit for those who are curious, Agnus Dei means Lamb of God in Latin.
I knew that
I said: "For those of you who don't know." Clearly, you understand Latin, not English.
+Kornelia McKenzie thx, now i dont have to google it ;)
Rumple No problemo :-)
+Kornelia McKenzie Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings (1936). In 1967, he set the Latin words of the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, for mixed chorus with optional organ or piano accompaniment.
First heard this when I went to watch Platoon, Daniel Dafoe getting shot to ribbons as he was left behind, awesome moving scene. Bought it on vinyl following day and still have it. Still sounds amazing compressed
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après plusieurs jours de confinement , ça fait du bien, magnifique.
homeworld intro brought me here, a beautiful piece of music
I still play the original at the moment
No one's left....
Everything is gone....
Kharak is burning.
+Jaikie Perry-Sloan Best game ever... best story, best OSB... Actually it's Adaggio for String. I play the original several times and now i play the new Remastered
@@Amodiinian The first time any video game had the power to actually make me cry
Whenever I listen to this it takes me away from all the bad things in this world. And for just 8 minutes it's peace and I don't have to worry about the awful things I hear on the news. When music can do that to you, I think it's just wonderful. But still my friends think Iggy Azalea is the best artist alive.
this songs is extremly beautiful!!!
et les anges descendirent du ciel pour le guider vers la lumiere où il trouva enfin la paix....
ça vient d"où??? c'est beau cette phrase!
emmanuel bruyere merci :) peut etre que quelqu un a deja dit ces mots,je ne sais pas, mais ca m'est venu comme ça.
c'est pas une partie du livret du requiem de Mozart?
emmanuel bruyere sincerement je ne sais pas; je ne serais pas étonné que ce genre de phrase ait déjà été écrit.
HEAVEN .
Gracias gracias gracias muy bellos mil bendiciones todo invita a continuar con las meditaciones Láser
Absolutely my all times favorite !
SIMPLY WONDERFUL...
THIS IS THE MUSIC PLAYED IN THE MOVIE 'PLATOON' ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR. WE LOST MANY YOUNG MEN DRAFTED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL REQUIRED BY LAW TO GO TO WAR AT AGE 18 WITH AN AVERAGE AGE OF 22 SOME SAY. IT HAS SPECIAL MEANING 'AGNUS DEI' LAMB OF GOD BY BARBER
Louvor maravilhoso esse nosso é magnifico Deus seja com vc🙏
Did anyone see that Sainsbury's christmas ad about christmas 1914? Jesus, it made me cry...
LEST WE FORGET.
Hi
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Thedarklord Morgoth Thank you :) God forbid this ever happens again.
+Armchair General for your tomorrow they gave their today,great words from Burma.as is ,to all the world you were only one,to me you were all the world.grave of crpl JJ Curley died 1944 age 29 Burma.
just spine tingling!!..
You'r not the only one remembering the homeworld and its cut scenes...
To all the people who say they like this even though they aren't religious, the music is not religious, just the text. Samuel Barber originally wrote this as an instrumental piece only, called Adagio for Strings. It wasn't until almost 30 years later that he made a choral arrangement of it with these words.
It's all about context. The melody for the US national anthem was taken from an English drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven". Yet the melody is now only associated with the US anthem. The US also "borrowed" the melody from the British national anthem, "God Save the Queen", and applied it to "My Country tis of Thee". Elgar's "Nimrod" was adapted by John Cameron as "Lux Aeterna". So, when Barber, who wrote this melody, chose to use the Adagio in conjunction with "Agnus Dei", this version became "religious". I've heard it performed in Catholic Mass and in Lutheran services.
The incredible beauty that man is able to create is not evidence of Heaven. Heaven and Hell are not places that we are destined for... because they are already within each of us.
La beauté de cette version peut difficilement laisser insensible...
Ascoltai tempo fa nella Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo in Foggia(italy) l'esecuzione di questo brano all'organo! Ne rimasi colpito! Davvero un'esecuzione intensa !
I have lots of music, but this is the one cd that has been played the moste