William Ørbit* – Barber's Adagio For Strings

I the 'Ferry Corsten Remix' when it came out...WOW! What a tune! He did the original version every bit of justice it deserves. Truly beautiful and still one of my favorite trance tunes to this day. That rollin' baseline eats me right up.

YES YES YES, this is a choon, and unfortunately swapped it for a record I don't even in about 2001/2?
Finally re bought it to place it back into my collection.

no doubt the ferry corsten remix is way better than tiesto remix of Barber's Adagio For Strings . The typical ferry corsten bassline and synth will sent shivers on the breakdown and release .

Completely agree with Rich.C, Corsten's original version is indeed a trance masterpiece. Tiesto's remix, on the other hand, was a disastrous reinterpretation, lacking respect for the essence of the original track.

This is a great single as it contains one of the best chill-out tunes ever as well as a dance version which is also of top quality. I don't understand why remixes from ATB were included because they are simply not as good. They are interesting to a certain point but that's about it. He was good for his track 9PM (Till I Come) and his follow up Don't Stop (a little less so) but that's about it.

It's a shame that not all versions were included on the UK issue as Ferry Corsten's mix is epic, both edited and unedited. The UK issue only features the unedited version, however it contains the full album version which this version does not feature. Why not add it as an extra track? I'm sure the extra nine and a half minutes wouldn't have caused any issues!

I love the normal and dance mix of this release and I just had to have it on vinyl. This disc provides both full length versions of this masterpiece. The trance remix may well not be how the tune was intended to be heard but it still retains the full emotion of the original, a trait rarely seen in dance mixes. It does seem a little unusual that the beat-less original version would appear on a 12 inch like this but I am so glad that it did.

Rich C. Totally agree with you. Tiesto should have left well alone in my personal opinion.

It really don't come much better than this pure class................#NY2K.

One of the big trance tracks of all time & its all about the breakdown, sends a shiver down my spine, absolute monster of a track, they simply don't come any bigger and these are the mixes to have.

Just one of those tracks everyone knows from the film platoon and the breakdown is simply amazing in a packed nightclub. Shame Tiesto massacred it and now everyone associates this track with his shitty version, he just basically played with the breakdown and then slammed a booming beat over the top....and thats a remix is it, FFS there should be a law made against this! Corsten made the original into a trance masterpiece no question, slotting in nicely with system f - out of the blue and binary finary 1999, if you were a trance dj in 1999 and you didn't own let alone play this your very presence near the decks was frowned upon ;)