A baroque  piece written by Tomaso Albinoni. 
i obtained the midi to this and imported into CbB. All mixing was done in CbB. Mixed using Kirk Hunter strings and Kontakt library. Reverb is Valhala Shimmer on concert hall setting on a bus.
Mastered in Studio One Professional using Ozone 7 and various other plugins. Mixed to 24/48 wav. Soundcloud converts to 128 mp3. Mastered to K20 standard.
 
My main beef is the violin which I don't think sounds realistic enough. I don't have a better solo instrument library right now and I can't record mine.
https://soundcloud.com/starise/adagio-in-g-minor

This is really well done!  I was talking with a friend about who (composers) can make one feel joy through their works?  For me the only one I could come up with is Mozart.  Everyone else is so much sturm und drang, or dramatic, or cerebral, or coloristic  etc .  Beethoven is just too much to just listen  and feel happy (except for maybe #7)  Who would you suggest I listen to?

eph221 I appreciate your comments. I am still learning the composers myself and this was a way to learn about their song constructions. I don't feel qualified to even make good suggestions yet. 
Some composers have one or two works that really stick out and the rest might not be so great. This is an educational process for me 

Starise,
 
Nice work on this piece.   Very enjoyable listen....
 
 The only suggestion I would offer is to add some varying degrees of reverb to your verb bus so some of the backing parts sit a little further into the background, i.e. some of the basses, the string, horns, etc...  
 
I think your violin is not bad at all, sounds pretty convincing for a sample and the reverb level on it is good.  Fantastic post.
 
Regards

Starise, that was a great listen.  Nicely mixed, and produced.  Thank you.

Hi Tim,
Cool to hear you.
Well it is courageous to confront a piece like this with midi instruments...
There is a french saying which is:" la culture c'est ce qui reste quand on a tout oublié..." Which I could translate more or less like : " culture is what remains once you have forgotten all you know..." And I must admit
this tune is a part of my culture ,I must have heard it before I was born..
I must admit I didn't go yet to the end of the tune( but be sure I will) for two reasons ,sorry,sorry....
The first one is ( for me) you mastered it a little bit loud ( just have to lower the volume you could say..) and the second one is that in your " driving of voices" ( proper Word is " conduites des voies") the main theme ( played by strings I think) is more suggested than really put upfront....
Now that I listened to the end,I must admit you did a good job.
Thanks for sharing and to put this music back in my ears.
Olivier

eph221
who (composers) can make one feel joy through their works?  

JS Bach? 
 

Yes Bach is good.  Some are more sublime than joyous, but you're correct.  Goldberg variations really take you for a trip.

Chostakovitch....
I am in no way aknowlledged in music,but this guy was wounded during the war (1914-1918) and he had shrapnell pieces in his head which altered his brain and he was hearing music ( due to the pieces of metal he had in the brain) and he was able to translate them in terms of symphonic writing ....There was a kind of campaign last year or the year before ,here in France,on the radio ,and I remember of somewhat a quite joyfull writing....

This is a beautiful piece of music and you've managed to capture it so nicely.
 
It's very difficult to work with these sample libraries and get them to sound realistic.  I guess it's a combination of library+knowledge of MIDI programming.    I can't put up a song of mine for review that has just a bit of background string ensemble in it without somebody commenting how "fake" my strings and horns are, which gets annoying because I can't do anything about it.  I try, believe me.  But yes, you have conquered that beast and I congratulate you.
 
Back to the music-The first time I was exposed to this piece was back in the 70s.  I heard an adaptation of it by a band called Renaissance and they put lyrics to it and called it "Cold Is Being".  Then, along the way I heard various orchestras performing it.
Beautiful indeed, and, as I said, you perform it well.
 
John B.