A musicologist named Remo Giazotto wrote a monograph on Albinoni in which he claimed to have discovered manuscript fragments by the Venetian Baroque composer, fragments from which he reconstructed the overworked now-famous Adagio. “It sounds too good to be true. And it is.” Cinema and early music maven Donald Greig (who for many years sang with the Tallis Scholars) gives us the real story. – The Guardian
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