Albinoni Adagio
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Albinoni (arr. Giazotto)
Adagio for Organ and Strings in G minor

A significant proportion of Albinoni's work has been lost, but while assembling the materials for a biography of this Venetian self-described dilettante, Remo Giazotto found six bars of music from a trio sonata fragment.  This was sufficient for this musicologist to construct in 1945 what, ironically, has become Albinoni's most famous work.
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Musica recommended recording
Conductor: Robert King Robert King bio page
Orchestra: Musica da Camera Orchestra website
Label: Linn Records Label website
Catalogue Ref: CKD012
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Release Date: January 1994

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Robert King, more regularly featured with his eponymous Consort, here delivered an 'authentic' rendition of the Adagio on period instruments which, although ironic bearing in mind its relatively recent reconstruction, here delivered an extraordinarily haunting interpretation.