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A journey to Albinoni's Adagio

Sara Mohr-Pietsch embraces the allure and considerable mysteries of Albinoni's Adagio, one of the best-known pieces of classical music ever written.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch time travels across the musical universe to reach Albinoni's Adagio, one of the best-known pieces of classical music every composed. But who did compose it? Probably not the seventeenth century Italian Albinoni but another much later Italian, Remo Giazotto, who died in 1998. Sara journeys towards Giazotto's iconic piece making musical connections with Mozart's Requiem, Dido's Lament by Purcell, Blue Bolero by Abdullah Ibrahim, Elgar's Sospiri along with music by Sibelius, Busoni and The Doors.

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1 hour, 29 minutes

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  • Next Sunday 13:30