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Regina Coeli (harp and string orchestra) (2007)
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Programme Note
Related works:
Four Angels
Regina Coeli for harp and string orchestra
Regina Coeli for harp and string quintet
Composer Note:
Even before the National Symphony’s première performance in May of 2006 of Four Angels: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, musicians in the orchestra were urging me towards presenting its third movement — Regina Coeli, an aural meditation on the mother of Jesus as the Queen of Heaven — as a separate piece. The most distinguished American example of this practice is probably Barber’s Adagio for Strings, which is heard much more frequently outside, rather than inside, its role as the slow movement of his string quartet.
While the concerto Regina Coeli includes a breath of brass, it is largely scored only for harp and strings. I prepared versions that could be performed either by string quintet or string ensemble; and Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, the chamber orchestra of the National Symphony, recorded the string orchestra version of Regina Coeli for an all-Adamo record released on Naxos in November 2009.
— Mark Adamo
Four Angels
Regina Coeli for harp and string orchestra
Regina Coeli for harp and string quintet
Composer Note:
Even before the National Symphony’s première performance in May of 2006 of Four Angels: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, musicians in the orchestra were urging me towards presenting its third movement — Regina Coeli, an aural meditation on the mother of Jesus as the Queen of Heaven — as a separate piece. The most distinguished American example of this practice is probably Barber’s Adagio for Strings, which is heard much more frequently outside, rather than inside, its role as the slow movement of his string quartet.
While the concerto Regina Coeli includes a breath of brass, it is largely scored only for harp and strings. I prepared versions that could be performed either by string quintet or string ensemble; and Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, the chamber orchestra of the National Symphony, recorded the string orchestra version of Regina Coeli for an all-Adamo record released on Naxos in November 2009.
— Mark Adamo
Scores
Score
Features
- Catalogue Classics: Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
- Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber is one of the best-known and most beloved concert works of all time. Derived from the middle movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, it was premiered in 1938 by Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. As the US struggled to emerge from the Great Depression and the prospect of war in Europe loomed, Adagio for Strings provided its audiences with a space to access their emotions, through radio broadcasts and performances across the Americas.
