I found a CD presented as a collection of Baroque masterpieces at home. I casually took it to the car and played it while driving, and it felt completely out of place. I wrote before about wondering what on earth it was.
The Albinoni Adagio included on that CD is not Baroque music either. The answer is that it is a work from 1958 by the musicologist Remo Giazotto, who compiled the systematic catalogue of Albinoni’s works. This is not Baroque at all either. It is neo-Romantic. What are the ears of critics like when they call this a Baroque masterpiece?
So, please listen: the Adagio, composed by Remo Giazotto in 1958. There is not the slightest bit composed by Albinoni.
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