Not Only Is Albinoni´s Adagio A Movie Cliché, It´s A Total Forgery
(ArtsJournal)

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 […]