Unlike the famous Adagio, there is no question mark hanging over the authorship of one of Albinoni’s best-known works for oboe. During his lifetime, the self-styled Venetian dilettante became famous ...

Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and music of the Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni, whose output included not only a large number of oboe concertos, but also a vast amount of choral, ...

Back in the 17th century, Tomaso Albinoni's family made its money selling playing cards. Albinoni didn't really have to work, so he devoted himself to music. In concert in Atlanta's Spivey Hall, the ...

The Chicago-based ensemble called Music of the Baroque, conducted by Robert King, plays the Concerto for two oboes in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni (toh-MAH-soh ahl-bee-NOH-nee). The group was recorded ...

Piero Toso -violin. Giuliano Carmigola - violin. I solisti Veneti, conducted by Claudio Scimone. Warner Classics - Apex CD 2564 61136-2 BORN in Venice in 1671, Tomaso Albinoni's music should be one of ...

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, which manufactured playing cards, among other ...