Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and music of the Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni, whose output included not only a large number of oboe concertos, but also a vast amount of choral, ...

Back in the 17th century, Tomaso Albinoni's family made its money selling playing cards. Albinoni didn't really have to work, so he devoted himself to music. In concert in Atlanta's Spivey Hall, the ...

Albinoni was a Baroque composer who had a financially rather well-cushioned life, thanks to the shares he inherited in his father’s stationery firm, which manufactured playing cards, among other ...