Classic FM Rising Star trumpeter, Aaron Azunda Akugbo plays the opening movement of Albinoni's exhilarating Trumpet Concerto ...
Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and music of the Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni, whose output included not only a large number of oboe concertos, but also a vast amount of choral, ...
Albinoni was a Baroque composer who had a financially rather well-cushioned life, thanks to the shares he inherited in his father’s stationery firm, which manufactured playing cards, among other ...
This is the 16th of these monthly columns about £1 classical music records. I’ve learned so much researching them, but let me tell you: there haven’t half been times when I’ve found myself staring ...
Unlike the famous Adagio, there is no question mark hanging over the authorship of one of Albinoni’s best-known works for oboe. During his lifetime, the self-styled Venetian dilettante became famous ...
Film soundtracks from Flashdance to Gallipoli have called upon the stately spare sadness of Albinoni’s Adagio, so much so that it has been denuded of meaning. The work itself isn’t even authentic.
Zenobia, Movements: Sinfonia Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer Concerto de' Cavalieri Marcello Di Lisa, Conductor (La) Statira, Movements: Vien con nuova orribil guerra Ana Quintans, Soprano Tomaso ...
Phil Hebblethwaite examines five classical musical hoaxes and controversies, from the early twentieth century to the modern day. These are origin stories that have fooled and perplexed some of the ...