The Armenian composer and pianist has reimagined a work close to her heart, the Adagio once credited solely to Tomaso Albinoni.
2 months ago

Elegance, stability, and order—as well as a sense of pure, elemental joy—are the qualities I hear in Tomaso Albinoni's music...
10 months ago

Albinoni was a Baroque composer who had a financially rather well-cushioned life, thanks to the shares he inherited in his father's stationery firm,...
80 months ago

Tomaso Albinoni was born in Venice in 1671. His father, Antonio, is a wealthy paper merchant and Tomaso himself initially follows him into the trade.
21 months ago

The story of Albinoni's Adagio is much more complicated than that. It is, in fact, arguably the biggest fraud in music history.
71 months ago

The premier boys sacred choir treats us all to a little-heard “Ave Verum” by Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni that rivals the beauty of Mozart’s version.
16 months ago

Just as I crossed the threshold of the cathedral, the travertine and basalt starkly alternating in white and black horizontal stripes,...
113 months ago

For years, I've been fascinated by Tomaso Albinoni, the Baroque composer whose presence in the public "eye" is tied almost exclusively to a...
139 months ago

A classic of film scores, Albinoni's Adagio isn't a lost baroque masterpiece; it's a spoof composed by his biographer in the 1950s.
76 months ago

Film soundtracks from Flashdance to Gallipoli have called upon the stately spare sadness of Albinoni's Adagio, so much so that it has been...
57 months ago