ADAGIO Alessandro Marcello

This recording presents an arrangement for clarinet and guitar orchestra by Walter Abt.

The soloist on clarinet is the outstanding Serbian virtuoso Ognjen Popovic.

The Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935, is an early 18th-century concerto for oboe, strings
and continuo attributed to the Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello. The earliest extant
manuscript containing Johann Sebastian Bach's solo keyboard arrangement of the concerto,
BWV 974, dates from around 1715. As a concerto for oboe, strings and continuo its oldest
extant sources date from 1717: that year it was printed in Amsterdam, and a C minor variant
of the concerto, S Z799, was written down.
Bach's keyboard version was published as an arrangement of a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi in
the 19th century. In 1923 the C minor version of the oboe concerto was published as a
composition by Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro's brother.