Are these two musical pieces the same or connected?!
Question:
Are these two musical pieces the same or connected?
An Angel Falls by Gabriel Yared on the City of Angels Soundtrack sounds very much like Adagio for Strings by Barber with the exception of the angelic vocals. Does anyone know it the Yared piece used the Barber piece as the base for An Angel Falls?
Answers:
I can certainly see how the one would remind you of the other. A number of the Yared gestures are very reminiscent -- something in part also enhanced by rather similar layouts in orchestration -- of the Barber (though not, of course, its string quartet original) but I can't register any real quotation or paraphrase of it in the Yared piece. There are also a few gestures that could almost seamlessly run into Wagner's Siegfried Idyll but, where the Barber is concerned, though it may have been a model, I don't think it ever was a source.
It's quite a well made piece in its own right, really... :-)