This well known piece of music written for and organ and
string ensemble was originally part of a sonata or cantata composed in the
Baroque period.It was unknown
until after WWII when just a fragment of the bass part of the manuscript
was discovered in the ruins of the Dresden State Library, which had been
bombed.This was passed to the
Italian musicologist, Remo Giazotto, who arranged/composed it into the
popular piece we now know.It
has been used extensively in television shows including Space 1999 and Butterflies, and film scores such as Kafka's The Trial, Rollerball, Flashdance
and Gallipoli.In popular music it has been used
by Yngwie Malmsteen in "Icarus Dream Suite", the Doors used it
for the album An American Prayer,
Muse use it as introduction for their song "Time is Running Out",
guitarist Dominic Miller has transcribed and recorded it, and it was used
in the rock/opera Midnight Blue
as a theme for the song "Midnight Blue".It is also a featured song on
the 1994 computer game Rise of the
Triad.
Academy of
St. Martin
in the Fields (ASMF) recordings
EMI Classics 5 66400 (CD: Baroque for Dummies)
Conductor -
Neville Marriner
Violin -Iona Brown
Seraphim 5 73289 2 (CD:
Classical Favorites)
Conductor - Neville Marriner
Violin - Iona
Brown
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
recordings
Deutsche Grammophon DG 419 046-2 (CD: Albinoni/Pachelbel/Corelli & Manfredini/Vivaldi)
Conductor - Herbert Von Karajan
Organ - Wolfgang Meyer
Deutsche Grammophon DG. 445 282-2 (CD: Adagio - Karajan)
Conductor - Herbert von Karajan
Organ - David Bell
Violin - Leon Spierer
Deutsche Grammophon DG. 449 724-2 (CD: Respighi: Fontane Di Roma. Pina Di Roma etc.)
