The very knowledge that Tomaso Albinoni had published an "Opus 10" managed to elude scholars until the 1960s and the music itself still longer; however, by the end of the 1960s, two copies of the ultra-rare Le Cene edition of the set of 12 concertos had been found. A strangely pellucid and conventional recording of the then unfamiliar music was promptly made by I Musici for Philips, at which point all interest in the novelty of Albinoni's Op. 10 set seemed to vanish. Only two other recordings separate the old I Musici ...
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The very knowledge that Tomaso Albinoni had published an "Opus 10" managed to elude scholars until the 1960s and the music itself still longer; however, by the end of the 1960s, two copies of the ultra-rare Le Cene edition of the set of 12 concertos had been found. A strangely pellucid and conventional recording of the then unfamiliar music was promptly made by I Musici for Philips, at which point all interest in the novelty of Albinoni's Op. 10 set seemed to vanish. Only two other recordings separate the old I Musici version and this, Chandos Chaconne's Albinoni: Homage to a Spanish Grandee -- Concertos from Op. 10, a distance of more than 40 years. This time -- perhaps wisely -- Chandos decided to pass on the whole set of 12 and include a selection of the eight best concertos, as performed by period instrument group Collegium Musicum 90 under Simon Standage. Overall this is a much brighter, livelier, and more alert performance than has so far proved the norm, and the result is that a few concertos...
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