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A journey to Albinoni's Adagio

Sara Mohr-Pietsch embraces the allure and considerable mysteries of Albinoni's Adagio, one of the best-known pieces of classical music ever written.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch time travels across the musical universe to reach Albinoni's Adagio, one of the best-known pieces of classical music every composed. But who did compose it? Probably not the seventeenth century Italian Albinoni but another much later Italian, Remo Giazotto, who died in 1998. Sara journeys towards Giazotto's iconic piece making musical connections with Mozart's Requiem, Dido's Lament by Purcell, Blue Bolero by Abdullah Ibrahim, Elgar's Sospiri along with music by Sibelius, Busoni and The Doors.

1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Sun 13 Oct 2024 13:30
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor

    Composer: Remo Giazotto. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best Classical Album in the World... Ever!.
    • EMI.
    • 13.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem: Lacrimosa

    Choir: St. Olaf Choir. Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Andreas Delfs.
    • Avie.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.10 in F Sharp Major (Unfinished): iii) Purgatorio

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D Minor ii) Adagio

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Christian Petzold

    Minuet No. 1 in G Major

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • DG.

  • Sandy Linzer

    A Lover's Concerto

    Composer: Denny Randall. Singer: Sarah Vaughan.
    • Verve.

  • Henri Casadesus

    Viola Concerto in C minor i) Allegro molto ma maestoso

    Performer: Nemanja Radulovi膰. Ensemble: Double Sens.
    • DG.

  • Peter Schickele

    The Short-Tempered Clavier i) C Major

    Performer: Christopher O鈥橰iley.
    • Telarc.

  • Henry Purcell

    Dido's Lament

    Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Ensemble: United Strings of Europe. Conductor: Julian Azkoul.
    • BIS.

  • Abdullah Ibrahim

    Blue Bolero

    Performer: Abdullah Ibrahim.
    • Gearbox.

  • The Doors

    A Feast of Friends

    • Warner Bros.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberfl枚te: Ach, ich f眉hl's (Pamina)

    Singer: Lucia Popp. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Imogen Holst

    The Fall of the Leaf iii) Poco adagio

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • Hyperion.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri, Op. 70

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gra啪inyt臈鈥怲yla.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Alison Bury.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony No.1 "Afro-American": ii) Sorrow (Adagio)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Naxos.

  • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebrou

    The Story of the Wind

    Performer: Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebrou.
    • Mississippi Records.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse Triste

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • WARNER.

  • Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

    The Slow Train

    Ensemble: Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
    • EMI.

  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Arlecchino: Umzug und Tanz

    Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Virgin Classics Digital.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet Auf (10 chorale preludes)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony.

  • Sally Beamish

    Seavaigers (Haven)

    Performer: Chris Stout. Performer: Catriona McKay. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • McKay Stout Music.

Broadcast

  • Sun 13 Oct 2024 13:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3