Vienna Philharmonic – Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op.11 (Summer Night Concert 2019)

If this masterpiece is not played in my funeral I'm not going

I understand why everyone talks about how sad this song makes them feel, but I think we are all missing something with the beauty of this piece. There is a point in the music where the notes get higher and higher and when you feel like the notes can't get any higher, they go one note higher! Its beautiful! It reminds me of our resilience, strength, and joy! Remember, out of the darkness, no matter how deep, comes light!

This is one of the most beautiful things my ears have ever heard in 43 years on earth

MUSIC LIKE THIS SHOULD BE PLAYED IN THE STREETS OF EVERY CITY ALL OVER THE WORLD.

I have lung cancer and this beautiful music takes the fear away

I dedicate this song to my Mother who died recently from covid. She was still young. I really miss her everyday. Love mum 💕 😢 ❣️

If angels were crying for humanity…this would be the background music

As our helicopter lifted away from our company outpost in Kandahar province in 2011, I heard this song in my head and tears flowed down my cheeks. In one year, I had seen men I was responsible for perish. I had seen the cruel suffering of the local population and at times had participated in their suffering. I witnessed the most heroic and selfless acts by men who were little more than boys. We just tried to survive, and not everyone did. Some lost their lives, some their limbs, and many their minds. I pray I may never have to kill or harm another human being as long as I live. When that helicopter left and carried me on the first leg of the long journey home, I felt as though we had all left something there. I could not think of what that was until years later, but eventually I realized it was our innocence. May peace and mercy prevail in a world so easily consumed by hatred and fear. May God forgive us all for the hardness in our hearts

My husband's favorite classical song, and when he was just buried last week, this song was playing- as he was put into the ground. 26 wonderful married years with the smartest, most handsome, precious man ever. I still can't believe this horrible covid 19 virus took him from us. I will love you forever Darryll Eli Salvadori 💗

I remember the first time I really listened to this Adagio. It was the movie, Platoon. My brother died in Vietnam. William Howard Shaller. He was a tank commander. Caught outside the tank, when gunfire erupted. He ran for the tank. The first time I saw Willem Dafoe running out of the jungle ... the pain and tears would not stop. They still do not stop.

This masterpiece is in remembrance of my son, a young U.S. Naval aviator whose plane crashed at sea off the coast of Bosnia, 31 years ago.

I lost my Dad recently. The first time I heard this song it felt like he was giving me a hug from heaven and then stepping back and saying "Son, I am ok now....go live your life, I'll be waiting"

I dedicate this to my beloved wife who passed away 5 years ago. I had a love for her that I cannot express in words...I will never get over her...

So amazing to watch people in Vienna - a very cosmopolitan city - listening to a piece written by an American long ago, performed by Austrians, conducted by a Venezuelan, and moved by the same feelings. We have to remember that we all have more in common than not.

I dedicate this song to my missing mother battling drug addiction. May you find God and recover what you’ve lost in all these years.

In a perfect world....this is the song we should all hear when we depart this earth.

This may be labeled as one of the saddest pieces ever but it is also one of the most incredibly beautiful pieces ever written. It expresses grief but in a very loving way.

There exists no other combination of notes, pace, dissonance and lament that is as affecting as this. Pure genius that reaches beyond our defenses and touches us in a private, loving and hurtful place - pure genius.

Just found out my dad passed away overnight. I dedicate this to him.

I dedicate this masterpiece to my Twin Brother Maruis that passed away 32 years ago the telepathic bond we had can not be put in words 😢