Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni: Concerto for oboe solo, strings & b.c. in D major (Op. 7 n. 6)
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the whole thing is absolutely incredible, but i just can't get over the 2nd movement. amazingly gorgeous....
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Anthony Tomassini non sa nulla di Musica.Non la conosce.Se la conoscesse, eviterebbe di fare classifiche idiote.
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Is any of his music available as a keyboard reduction? Fabulous stuff.
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@KhagarBalugrak ~ well ~ after reading your extensive response I can appreciate your outrage. However I still think the criteria lies within the music-lover. Who would listen to such nonsense A. Tomassini spreads? The sad part is, that teaching personal adapts this ridiculous attitude. Go and study music in Vienna ~ and you will not hear any of this totally uncalled for competition of who has the better composers. I commend you for speaking up ~ bravo!!!!
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@mmbmbmbmb, well, recently, Anthony Tomassini, a music critic for the New York Times, gave his "list" of the top 10 composers of all time. Albinoni wasn't even mentioned as a consideration. Neither was Corelli, Palestrina, Chopin, Rachmaninov, or any composer from the before the Baroque period or the late 20th century. All of the "top" composers on the list were German, and Tomassini had the balls to declare that the Germans have dominated classical music since its inception.
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@mmbmbmbmb, once more thing: I know Tomassini is of Italian ancestry. But he is ultra-conservative in his "musical views", and as such, has chosen to believe what every other American critic/music professor believes: the Germans have always been, and always will, be infinitely better than anyone else at everything music-related, and indeed, probably infinitely better at everything requiring craft and skill.
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@mmbmbmbmb, so yes, I will say Albinoni and non-Germans in general have never been looked at, at least in America, as ever being equal to the Germans. The reason for this, I think, is that most Americans are of German ancestry, and by holding up Germans as superior, the American professors and critics are really holding up themselves as superior. It's collective narcissism on the part of these American musical ideologues.
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@mmbmbmbmb, what's worse, I go to a music school, and literally all the professors agree with Tomassini. They too celebrate German classical music as universes above the classical music of every other country. In America, where I'm from, this is for some reason a very persistent and widespread ideology: their idea that Germans are far better than anyone else at everything music-related, and the belief that none of us non-Germans will EVER come anywhere close.
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what makes you think ~ or say that he isn't?
He is very celebrated among music-lovers.
Why the hell isn't Albinoni considered a great composer like Bach and Mozart? This is the second piece I've heard by Albinoni, and I'm already in love with his music.
KhagarBalugrak 1 year ago 13
You are right. I especially notice the difference when listening to my most favorite pieces for example by Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann or Händel. There I really hear a difference in how various orchestras play the same piece. It's nice that the music can be diversified by the individual musicians/orchestras, but as you mention it sometimes makes a good piece feel "less good" :-) This way however I have discovered great musicians that I have come to admire. At first I only concentrated on composers.
byf43 1 year ago 5