Baroque Music for 45 mins - Tomaso Albinoni Orchestral Music (1671-1751)

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

was born in Venice in 1671, eldest son of a wealthy paper merchant. At an early age he became proficient as a singer and, more notably, as a violinist, though not being a member of the performers' guild he was unable to play publicly so he turned his hand to composition.

A lifelong resident of Venice, Albnoni married an opera singer, Margherita Raimondi, and composed as many as 81 operas several of which were performed in northern Europe from the 1720s onwards. Most of his operatic works have been lost, having not been published during his lifetime. Nine collections of instrumental works were however published, meeting with considerable success and consequent reprints; thus it is as a composer of instrumental music (99 sonatas, 59 concertos and 9 sinfonias) that he is known today. In his lifetime these works were favorably compared with those of Corelli and Vivaldi, and his nine collections published in Italy, Amsterdam and London were either dedicated to or sponsored by an impressive list of southern European nobility.

We have selected a variety of Albinoni's best instrumental works from several different collections, featuring strings, oboes, and an oboe concerto here performed on the trumpet, as was often done in baroque times. Altogether a very enjoyable and varied program, which we conclude with the celebrated Adagio.

#musicforrelaxation #musicforstudying #tomasoalbinoni #orchestralmusic #classicalmusic #baroquemusic #movienerd

Видео Baroque Music for 45 mins - Tomaso Albinoni Orchestral Music (1671-1751) канала SONNYPEDIA