Albinoni's Adagio by, er, Giazzoto

[kernelbogey]

This Guardian piece about how the 'Albinoni' adagio became a cliche through film interested me.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/16/albinoni-adagio-movie-cliche-donald-greig

The story may be well known to many boarders but I didn't know that the music is a completely modern pastiche.

[richardfinegold]

One of my first lps was a collection by the ASMF that was a Baroque Greatest Hits that featured this. The liner notes hinted and that it was inauthentic in some way, but I was a Classical Music neophyte and in those pre Google days I had no idea what that meant. Thank you for posting that

[cloughie]

I first heard it on a World Record Club Issue T/ST 666! by the Saar Radio Chamber Orchestra conducted by Karl Ristenpart which was an Erato recording! I really liked it then and still do and have a number of recordings. I suppose those seeking a hipp recording will wonder why it has been played on C18 th instruments rather than those available at the end of WWII! On authenticity of pieces of music - Persil’s Trumpet Voluntary doesn’t wash nowadays!

[MickyD]

If I remember correctly, way back in the 70s, Jean-Claude Malgoire and his Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy did attempt a HIP version of this for CBS, but I never heard it.

[LHC]

My introduction to the Adagio was its use in Norman Jewison's film Rollerball.

The film also made use of Andre Previn's recordings of Shostakovich's 5th and 8th symphonies, and was my introduction (as a young teenager) to those pieces as well. I'm pleased to say it prompted me to buy Previn's recordings of both symphonies.