Nice choice of music. Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

Orchestral version:
Adagio For Strings - Samuel Barber - directed by Leonard Bernstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVNhFMZP4NM

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>> ^Reefie:

>> ^Lethin:
1 min in, stopped. wish i could get the min back.
F you music industry. F you for ruining music.

Hahaha what would you rather be listening to?

Loaded question. but i'll play your game.
this.

tron legacy - the son of flynn
and
Deadmau5- Ghosts and stuff
and
GITS2 - INTRO
also
clean-the-fan-song
to
Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei (Adagio for strings)

but dont get me wrong. i have my guilty pleasures (also, i dont usually use HMTL coding, so im sorry if its broken links)

>> ^gwiz665:

I always enjoyed the counterpoint of the Choral singing and the weapons in the trailer of Homeworld. Love it.
Below is a live version of it
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I heard this again last night and it still stops me dead in my tracks. I'd agree with the above, it's more poignant as a quartet.

(edit) here's a link to the Kronos Quartet version

Incredible. Reminds me of the "Red Shoe Diaries" theme. I really like the "Virtuosi" recording this is on. Samuel Barber's "Excursions" for piano is also on there. Great stuff

I remember this was the first time I ever heard Adagio for Strings (choral) by Samuel Barber. I like the aural interaction between the beautiful haunting music and the sounds of the engines and such. I think the trailer for the game used the music as well, but with a battle going on.

The same mix of classical music can be found in the newest Hitman (Blood Money), where Ave Maria is used to great effect, and in the trailer for Dawn of War, also be Relic, who made Homeworld.