Music to start the weekend - the "Albinoni Adagio"

I have posted many times about the actual provenance of this piece. It is a mid-20th century creation by Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto, who claimed to have found a fragment of an Albinoni composition in the archives of a bombed-out German library, in Dresden, and recreated what the original might have been like from that fragment. That library did contain a trove of Albinoni’s compositions that were destroyed when the city was firebombed during World War II, so Giazotto’s claim was plausible. Whether or not there really was an Albinoni fragment, and whether or not it sounded anything like this, Giazotto's work is still a delight to listen to.

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