The Piece That Never Was
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio is one of the most famous pieces of classical music, but the truth is, it never existed until almost 200 years after Albinoni's death. Albinoni's cataloguer, Remo Giazotto, discovered a fragment of melody by Albinoni in a bombed-out library after World War II — and turned it into the work we know today. We'll hear this romanticized version of baroque melody from the English String Orchestra under William Boughton.
Also, don't forget tonight is your last chance to enter New York's Biggest Beethoven Fan contest! We'll gear up with an historic recording of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 8 featuring Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff; also, the Horn Sonata in F with Anthony Halstead. The formidable soprano Christine Brewer takes us on a Straussian journey with the "Four Last Songs" later in the evening, and Loren Maazel leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Camille Saint-Saëns ever-popular "Organ" Symphony.
Also, don't forget tonight is your last chance to enter New York's Biggest Beethoven Fan contest! We'll gear up with an historic recording of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 8 featuring Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff; also, the Horn Sonata in F with Anthony Halstead. The formidable soprano Christine Brewer takes us on a Straussian journey with the "Four Last Songs" later in the evening, and Loren Maazel leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Camille Saint-Saëns ever-popular "Organ" Symphony.
