Have you heard the sung version.? It's very difficult...we performed it at
a dedication of a church in Frankenmuth about 4 year ago....same
effect...very moving piece...

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Bach's Air on the G String is one of my favorite pieces...

I had an arrangement of it played at my mother's funeral. Also Samuel
Barber, Rachmaninoff, and Albinoni.

The Albinoni Adagio is also beautiful...

Indeed. My daughter, age ten at the time, requested Rachmaninoff's
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini--the melodic interlude from the
middle--because it was one of her and her grandmother's favorite pieces.
I requested Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings to be played just before
the pastor spoke. Following the crescendo near the end, there was nary a
dry eye in the church. That is a most moving piece, and it still makes me
misty whenever I play it.

Max