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Vivaldi: Op. 11-12

Vivaldi: Op. 11-12

Of course Vivaldi is best known for the Four Seasons, but that is only a small part of his vast musical output. Vivaldis publisher compiled his works into 12 Opus sets. Recently I purchased an old LP set of the Op. 11-12 works by I Musici with Salvadore Accardo on Philips. Excellent music and playing. Surprisingly, there are not really any sets of many of the Opus works in recordings these days. It looks like Hogwood and the Ancient Academy…

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Albinoni: Concertos

Albinoni: Concertos

Albinoni may be best known for his Adagio for Organ and Strings, used in the movie Platoon. The Adagio is an arrangement by musicologist Remo Giazotto, who discovered a fragment of a work while researching for an Albinoni biography. In actuality it is a work composed by Giazotto but attibuted to Albinoni by him to give the work more ‘authenticity’. While a beautiful work, if that is all that you know of Albinoni, you are missing a lot. The closest…

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