Books

Sometimes quite famous works have a dubious status. ‘Albinoni’s’ for example was fabricated from fragments by Remo Giazotti c1900, ‘Bach’s’ in D minor (BWV 585) is probably by somebody else and this fascinating and impressive book demonstrates that our familiar modern versions of Allegri’s (with their high Cs) ‘have been modified out of all recognition’ from the version written down in the 1630s. Indeed when the Holy Roman