Albinoni: Adagio, Pachelbel: Canon, Bach: Air, Vivaldi: La Notte, Mozart: Serenata notturna, Gluck: Reigen seliger Geister, Dance of the Blessed Spirits / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan / Universal Music Audio CD 2013 / 480 861-9

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The Adagio in Sol minore per archi e organo su due spunti tematici e su un basso numerato di Tomaso Albinoni (Mi 26), also known as Adagio in G minor for strings and organ, is a neo-Baroque composition commonly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but actually composed by 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto, purportedly based on the discovery of a manuscript fragment by Albinoni. There is a continuing scholarly debate about whether the alleged fragment was real, or a musical hoax perpetrated by Giazotto, but there is no doubt about Giazotto's authorship of the remainder of the work.

Pachelbel's Canon is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel in his Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo (German: Kanon und Gigue für 3 Violinen mit Generalbaß) (PWC 37, T. 337, PC 358). It is sometimes called Canon and Gigue in D or Canon in D. Neither the date nor the circumstances of its composition are known (suggested dates range from 1680 to 1706), and the oldest surviving manuscript copy of the piece dates from the 19th century.

"Air on the G String", also known as "Air for G String" and "Celebrated Air", is August Wilhelmj's 1871 arrangement of the second movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068.

The arrangement differs from the original in that the part of the first violins is transposed down so that the entire piece can be played on just the violin's lowest string (the G string). In performance, that part is generally played by a single violin (instead of by the first violins as a group).

Tracklist:

TOMASO ALBINONI 1671-1751
(Arr: REMO GIAZOTTO)

01  Adagio in G minor for Strings and Organ

ANTONIO VIVALDI 1678-1741
Concerto for Flute, Strings and
Harpsichord in G minor, op.10 no.2 “La Notte”

02  1. Largo - Fantasmi. Presto

03  2. Largo - Presto

04  3. Il sonno, Largo - Allegro

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 1685-1750

05 Air

from the Suite for Orchestra no.3 in D major, BWV 1068

JOHANN PACHELBEL 1653-1706
(Arr. MAX SEIFFERT)
Canon and Gigue in D major for 3 Violins and Basso Continuo

06 Kanon. Sostenuto - Gigue, Scherzando

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK 1714-1787

07 Dance of the Blessed Spirits

from the opera ‘Orpheus and Eurydice”’

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 1756-1791
Serenata notturna in D major, K.239

08  1.  Marcia. Maestoso
09  2.  Menuetto
10  3.  Rondeau, Allegretto - Adagio - Allegro

• Violin - Leon Spierer, Thomas Brandis, Emil Maas
  
• Organ - David Bell
• Flute - Andreas Blau, Karlheinz Zoeller
• Harpsichord - Frank Maus
• Viola - Neithard Resa
• Double-bass - Rainer Zepperitz