On Mar 30, 11:10*am, "Dee Randall" > wrote:
> "DaleW" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> Sunday afternoon I prepped dinner, made an appearance to thank
> volunteers at a benefit concert, but then headed to White Plains where
> Betsy was leading cello section in a small string orchestra. Theme was
> film composers and those that influenced them, sinfoniettas by
> Bernard Hermann and Franz Waxman, and then Verklarte Nacht by
> Schoenberg.
>
> Since you speak often re concerts, I will ask if you know the answer to my
> question.
>
> "Alessandro Marcello's small but distinguished musical output includes a
> concerto in D minor for oboe, strings and basso continuo, published about
> 1717 at Amsterdam in a concerto anthology and transcribed by J.S. Bach as
> concerto for solo harpsichord in D minor (as BWV 974), presumably from an
> earlier manuscript."
>
> Question: *"""""""I wonder if the Adagio (on stage, not recording) in the
> Concerto in D minor is ever played by PIANO."""""
>
> I see that Glenn Gould is playing here at 4:48 min.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Adagio-Concert...Marcello/dp/B0...
>
> although the sound quality is not that great, compared to another recording
> (piano) at 1:45 min.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...ernetmoviedat/
>
> Thanks,
> Dee Dee

Never heard of the piece, but if transcribed for keyboard and recorded
by Gould, I am sure someone has played it in concert. I'm not the
musician, will try to remember to ask my wife if she is familiar with
it.