Agnus Dei A Beautiful Prayer For Our Brave Ukrainian Brothers and Sisters
This is a Prayer, deep religious music, performed by Slovenian Philharmonic Choir. I dedicate this prayer to our suffering Ukrainian people under the brutal claws of the primitive and deadly attack. We all pray for you dear people of Ukraina, the heart of Eastern Europe. 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. The music, in Bflat minor, has a duration of about eight minutes. Barber s Adagio for Strings began as the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, composed in 1936. At the request of Arturo Toscanini, he arranged it for string orchestra, and in January 1938 sent that version to the conductor, who premiered it in New York with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In setting it to the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, Barber changed the music on
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