Agnus Dei (Barber) Jenkins included it on her 2008 album "Sacred Arias". In 2015, the Rotterdam Symphony Chorus made a live recording of Agnus Dei during a concert tour with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Agnus Dei (Barber) Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his "Adagio for Strings" (1936). In 1967, he set the Latin words of the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, for mixed chorus with optional organ or piano accompaniment. The music, in B-flat minor, has a duration of about eight minutes. Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
Requiem for a Tribe Brother reprise of the "Hosannas" from the previous movement. In common with the second movement, the "Agnus Dei" is a slow chorale, featuring a highly pungent harmonic language and many unusual shifts of key. This movement features two soprano soli which float above the rest of the choir throughout. A fast and fiery dance primarily for tenors, built on an ostinato figure in the basses. Towards the end of the movement, there is a brief reprise of material from the opening "Requiem aeternam". The serene concluding movement, in C major, derives its melody from the opening of the "Song of Hope"