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Soul Music: Series 18: Adagio in G minor

Adagio in G minor

Series 18

BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Series 18, Adagio in G minor

Albinoni's Adagio may be wrongly attributed but it still never fails to move us.

Virginia McKenna explores the lasting impact of Albinoni's adagio, while Andrew Gant maintains it is wrongly attributed to him. From 2014.

Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, is one of the most popular and moving pieces of music.

But, as academic and composer Andrew Gant explains, it wasn't written by Albinoni and is now attributed to 20th century Italian composer, Giazotto.

Award-winning veteran BBC foreign correspondent, Malcolm Brabant recalls the ' cellist of Sarajevo', Vedran Smailovic, playing it everyday for weeks amidst the wreckage of the beautiful city, as Serbian gunfire raged around.

Actress Virginia McKenna explains its importance to her and her late husband, actor Bill Travers, who died in 1994. The piece was played at the beginning and end of his memorial service.

And TV producer, Gareth Gwenlan reveals why it was chosen as the theme for the character played by Wendy Craig, in the BBC’s 1970s TV sitcom, Butterflies.

Producer: Lucy Lunt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.

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