Concerto in D Minor for Oboe and Strings, Op. 1: II. Adagio
Alessandro Marcello (1669-1747) was an Italian nobleman and dilettante who … Read Full Bio ↴Alessandro Marcello (1669-1747) was an Italian nobleman and dilettante who dabbled in various areas, including poetry, philosophy, mathematics, and, music.
Marcello was born in Venice on 24th August 1669. His brother was Benedetto Marcello, was also a composer. He composed and published several sets of concertos, including six concertos under the title of La Cetra (The Lyre), as well as cantatas, arias, canzonets, and violin sonatas. Marcello often composed under the pseudonym Eterio Stinfalico, his name as a member of the celebrated Arcadian Academy (Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi).
Although his works are infrequently performed today, Marcello is regarded as a very competent composer. One of his concertos, in D minor for oboe, strings, and basso continuo, is perhaps his best-known work. Its worth was attested to by Johann Sebastian Bach who transcribed it for harpsichord (BWV 974).
He died in Padua on 19th June 1747.
Marcello was born in Venice on 24th August 1669. His brother was Benedetto Marcello, was also a composer. He composed and published several sets of concertos, including six concertos under the title of La Cetra (The Lyre), as well as cantatas, arias, canzonets, and violin sonatas. Marcello often composed under the pseudonym Eterio Stinfalico, his name as a member of the celebrated Arcadian Academy (Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi).
Although his works are infrequently performed today, Marcello is regarded as a very competent composer. One of his concertos, in D minor for oboe, strings, and basso continuo, is perhaps his best-known work. Its worth was attested to by Johann Sebastian Bach who transcribed it for harpsichord (BWV 974).
He died in Padua on 19th June 1747.
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Concerto in D Minor for Oboe and Strings Op. 1: II. Adagio
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@olenagoncharuk5061
"As I am answering your uttered thinking thoughts, I am writing a poem and here it is: it is yours now. I am carrying it in the palm of my hand, dripping with cold salty sea water - a shimmering pearly-grey-blue shard of an oyster shell covered with dry yellow sand. Listen: the waves are coming in..."
You are alive, alone on the beach; the world and everything that is in it is yours:
Look at the vault of clear blue-eyed sky, you feel the breeze, you hear gulls a-calling.
You turn around, walk towards the orange lights of quiet evening empty homes
That line the promenade of an unknown town that sheltered the revolving
Generations, families, invaders, troubadours, the hoi polloi, the sick at heart:
They have been here, they breathed the salty air of an eternal sea that licks my bare toes.
I step into the winding trail of their thread of life, I drag my tired feet through burning heat of sand,
I stumble and fall, and kindly face appears: I touch the hem of Abbot's tattered robe,
Get off my throbbing bleeding knees, I follow the light, the peace, the wisdom, the awakening.
The Universe has opened up, all stars are mine, the Milky Way a-twinkling like a swarm of fireflies.
I head into the future of the Cosmic Space, I leave the footprints of my thoughts on virgin snow page,
I greet the pinkish dawn of golden Orb that is the Sun who is my Brother, confidante and my Epiphany:
To travel lightly, without gold and riches, and possessions is to embrace the Freedom of my Way.
Written on 25th January, 2021.
@nebraskatpp
I'll never forget the first time I heard this piece. I was doing something and suddenly I heard this piece, and it made me stop and me wait to identify it. It is a strong piece.
@quabledistocficklepo3597
It made you stop your work; it made me stop breathing.
@tharchandran3709
It sounds so melancholy and heartbreakingly beautiful.
@stuartshone1740
one of my all time favourites, hauntingly beautiful.......
@NelsonClick
I like this piece because there's no cliches in it. It doesn't go where you think it's going. Detours from the expected and drifts me into a place I feel I've never been. It's not sad or melancholy or even that beautiful. I don't know what it is and I love that. Life has many of those quiet reflective moments. I'm just here and thinking about something.
@nikkykiwi9628
I get goosebumps each time i listen to it. Magnificent adagio!👌👌
@valentinkostadinov9286
One of best of ever created music of Baroque! Thank you for uploading!
@jacobw.5340
I totally agree 👍
@elesculapio9525
Me encanta éste Adagio y precioso el Oboe!!
@angelhalo2
I first heard this as a 13 year old and decided to play the oboe which didn’t happen until my late 40s as I was a viola player, then a clarinetist. It’s still my favourite piece and my niece is playing it at my funeral 😊❤️