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  • "Adagio" -- entered with a telegram on a salver which she offered to

    The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

  • The Adagio is a striking and wonderful work, but when Barber transfered it to voices it was given a haunting, gut-wrenching quality that isn't there in the original, making it quite possibly the most emotionally power piece of music ever written.

    Musical adapations that were meant to be Brian Clegg 2010

  • The Adagio is a striking and wonderful work, but when Barber transfered it to voices it was given a haunting, gut-wrenching quality that isn't there in the original, making it quite possibly the most emotionally power piece of music ever written.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Brian Clegg 2010

  • [Footnote: The slow movements of Chopin's concertos are marked Larglietto, the composer uses here the word Adagio generically ” i.e., in the sense of slow movement generally.]

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • "After the String Quintet in C, D956" and, if you know the quintet, you might hear an echo, in the first poem, of the mysterious opening of the Allegro, or recall the Adagio's pizzicato passages in those very short lines at the end of the second.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Adagio, which is a very slow movement or leg extension.

    PegasusNews.com stories Mark-Brian Sonna of MBS Productions 2010

  • Adagio, which is a very slow movement or leg extension.

    PegasusNews.com stories Mark-Brian Sonna of MBS Productions 2010

  • Adagio, which is a very slow movement or leg extension.

    PegasusNews.com stories Mark-Brian Sonna of MBS Productions 2010

  • A new CD called "Adagio in the Automobile" features Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer playing part of Mozart's Piano Concerto Nr. 21 accompanied by the orchestra of Berlin's Deutsche Oper.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • A new CD called "Adagio in the Automobile" features Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer playing part of Mozart's Piano Concerto Nr. 21 accompanied by the orchestra of Berlin's Deutsche Oper.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

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