Links

« Samuel Barber » on Wikipedia.

« Samuel Barber » on Classissima.

« Samuel Barber, Once Upon A Time... » : interview on the French website Qobuz about the first French biography on Barber (January 2012).

« A Composer For Our Time » : portrait of Samuel Barber and discography by Pierre Brévignon (Classica magazine, September 2010).

« Samuel Barber : A Forgotten Neo-Romantic Great » : a few months before the release of his second Barber album (Somm Records), the English pianist Leon McCawley talks about his passion for the US neo-romantic composer (The Guardian, November 18th 2010).

« A Sideways-Looking Genius » : portrait of Samuel Barber by Philip Clarke (Gramophone USA, July 2010).

« Barber, a Composer Between Two Worlds », an article by the Capricorn Society for American Center France, the hub for franco-american exchange of the US Embassy.

« The Saddest Music Ever Written » : excerpt of the new book by Thomas Larson, an essay on the Adagio for Strings.

Official website of the music publisher Schirmer, with a beautiful commemorative text by Paul Wittke, Barber’s personal editor.

The website of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

« Echoes of Ireland » : details of the Barber Festival organized by Nóta à Dublin le 9 mars 2010.

A website dedicated to violinist Iso Briselli recounting the amazing genesis of the Violin Concerto.

An overview of Barber's chamber music by his American biographer Barbara B. Heyman for Chamber Music America.

 


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