EMS "Albinoni" 20/10/2024 (R)

[AuntDaisy]

A repeat of a 6/6/2021 EMS on Albinoni, this Sunday 20/10/2024.
Ardcarp's original thread is here - it generated lots of discussion. I think this was Ana Her's only EMS...

Albinoni - The Early Music Show

Ana Her celebrates the life and work of Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni, known for his operas and instrumental music, marking the 350th anniversary of his birth on 8 June 1671. It is thought that Albinoni wrote at least 50 operas, although few of them survive. His oboe concertos were the first of their type by an Italian composer to be published, and his instrumental music was admired by Bach, who wrote fugues based on Albinoni's works and also used them in his teaching.

Albinoni; Zenobia: Overture; Simon Desbruslais, Stephen Pedder, Charivari Agréable, Kah-Ming Ng
Albinoni; Sonata a 3 in A minor Op.1`6: 4th movement; Federico Guglielmo, L'Arte dell'Arco
Albinoni; Cosi languir mi fa [Ove rivoglio il piede, Op.4`7]; Silvia Frigato, L'Arte dell'Arco
Albinoni; Concerto a 5 in A minor Op.5`5: Adagio; Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage
Albinoni; Stelle ingrate [Astarto]; Andreas Scholl, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
Albinoni; Chi mi vuoi? [Pimpinone]; Elena Zilio, I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone
Albinoni; Sonata a 3 in B minor Op.1`8 (2nd movement) (excerpt); Federico Guglielmo; L'Arte dell'Arco
JS Bach; Fugue in B minor BWV.951; Robert Hill
Albinoni; Concerto a 5 in F major Op.2`2; Insieme strumentale di Roma, Giorgio Sasso
Albinoni; Concerto a 5 in D minor Op.9`2 (2nd movement); Pierre Pierlot, I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone
Vivaldi; Concerto in F major RV.433, Op.10`1 (La Tempesta di mare); Lisa Beznosiuk, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
Albinoni; Adagio in G minor compl. Giazotto [based on Albinoni fragment]; Remo Giazotto, English Chamber Orchestra, Stephanie Gonley

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wsl7

[LMcD]

A repeat of a 6/6/2021 EMS on Albinoni, this Sunday 20/10/2024.
Ardcarp's original thread is here - it generated lots of discussion. I think this was Ana Her's only EMS...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wsl7

More than a bit 'bitty'?

[AuntDaisy]

More than a bit 'bitty'?

BTW I did a quick comparison with Lucie Skeaping's 2006 Albinoni EMS on the original ardcarp thread.

AH mentions EMS in her Biography section of her website (link courtesy of French Frank).

She has presented The Early Music Show on BBC Radio 3 and in 2022, hosted the BBC Share Your Story UK tour to celebrate the BBC’s 100th anniversary. ...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Oh dear. Has the BBC sunk to Classic FM’s level of factual emptiness? Albinoni’s Adagio is as much to do with Albinoni as it has to do with Julius Caesar. Giazotto himself admitted as such in later year years. It’s a decent piece, but to continue to claim it’s by anyone other than Giazotto merely discredits the broadcaster(s).

[oddoneout]

Oh dear. Has the BBC sunk to Classic FM’s level of factual emptiness? Albinoni’s Adagio is as much to do with Albinoni as it has to do with Julius Caesar. Giazotto himself admitted as such in later year years. It’s a decent piece, but to continue to claim it’s by anyone other than Giazotto merely discredits the broadcaster(s).

I thought it was made clear in the programme that the popular story didn't stand up too well to scrutiny, and the announcement at the end of the programme referred to it as by Giazotto. Coming as it did after so many genuine Albinoni pieces rather highlighted the gap between the confected and the real I thought - but that might be partly because I was 'corrected' many years ago when referring to Albinoni's Adagio, so hear it differently? I think its inclusion was a considered choice and could be seen as a way of showing why its connection with Albinoni is at best tenuous.

[CallMePaul]

I thought it was made clear in the programme that the popular story didn't stand up too well to scrutiny, and the announcement at the end of the programme referred to it as by Giazotto. Coming as it did after so many genuine Albinoni pieces rather highlighted the gap between the confected and the real I thought - but that might be partly because I was 'corrected' many years ago when referring to Albinoni's Adagio, so hear it differently? I think its inclusion was a considered choice and could be seen as a way of showing why its connection with Albinoni is at best tenuous.

This piece was recently played at my aunt's funeral, where it was stated to be by Albinoni. After the service I saw the CD used (Berlin Phil/ Karajan) which also had Albinoni's name blazed on the cover ("arr Giazotto" added in the track listing). I did not have the heart to tell my fellow mourners that the piece was not by Albinoni but a pastiche.