ExclusiveAlbinoni: Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, no.2 - II. Adagio

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Tomaso Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, no.2 - II. Adagio. This beautiful piece was played by Paul Arden-Taylor. It has Creative Commons license (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Unlike the famous Adagio, there is no question as to the authorship of one of Albinoni's most famous works for oboe.

During his lifetime, the self-proclaimed Venetian dilettante became famous throughout Europe, especially for his operas. He was determined not to let his inheritance from his father's paper and stationery business get in the way of his composing. He soon divested himself of all day-to-day responsibilities. This left him free to spend much of the 1720s (when he would have been in his fifties) touring the most fashionable international opera houses and overseeing his works. This meant that he was at the forefront of learning about the latest advances in the music of the time. He was one of the first in Italy to write for the oboe, a new instrument in its infancy. This concerto is a near-perfect example of the genre.

The video was captured by Christian Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.


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