Monday, August 11, 2008

Tomasso Albinoni, Opus 9, No. 5 in C, Oboe Concerto


Time was, the only Albinoni oboe concerto anybody knew of was the one in D Minor--I heard it on the radio, and immediately called my piano teacher, and asked "Who is this Tomasso Albinoni who writes better oboe concertos than Bach?"  But, ¡Praise Allah!, there are in existence, despite the the Allied carpet bombing of Dresden which destroyed so many manuscripts of Venetian baroque music, at least 8 or 9 other oboe concertos by Albinoni....

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