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Adrian Chandler Album 2017 23 songs.

1. Adrian Chandler the director/violin, knows how to obtain the very best from La Serenissima. The all round effect is brilliant. The soloists all play with great enthusiasm.
2. Musicians: La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (violin) Works: Works by Albinoni, Matteis (the younger), Vivaldi and Brescianello. Catalogue number: SIGNUM SIGCD 641. This disc’s title refers to its status as a compilation of unissued recordings from sessions since 2014–15, as well as Adrian Chandler’s own devotion to Everton FC.
3. La Serenissima celebrated its 21st birthday in 2015 by recording Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (Manchester version) alongside works for violino in tromba marina: a reconstruction project undertaken by violinist Adrian Chandler, luthier David Rattray and the musicologist Michael.

La Serenissima has firmly established itself as one of the leading exponents of the music of Antonio Vivaldi and his Italian contemporaries.

Founded in 1994 by violinist Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima is now recognised as the UK’s leading exponent of the music of eighteenth century Venice and connected composers. Uniquely, we present world-class musical performances in concert and recording where all the research and editorial work is our own. Described by Gramophone as having 'a glorious and all-too-rare ability to make one’s pulse race afresh with every new project' we have been praised for our 'fresh approach' (BBC Music Magazine), 'dazzling inventiveness' (The Strad) and singled out for our 'difference in attack' from other orchestras (The Independent).

We delight in bringing great baroque music to the widest possible audience through our trademark mix of ‘blockbuster’ musical works and unknown gems; through live performances, talks and workshops; and through our recordings which are available to all. We’ve championed a plethora of neglected works by composers ranging from Dall’Abaco to Composer X and have also brought to life Vivaldi’s operas Catone in Utica, Giustino, La Fida Ninfa, L’Olimpiade, Ottone in villa and Tito Manlio.

La Serenissima has appeared at many of the UK’s leading festivals including the Bath Bach, Bath International, Beverley, Buxton, Cambridge Summer, Chelsea, Cheltenham, Lichfield, Ryedale, South Bank, Warwick and York Early Music, and at venues including Bridgewater Hall, St George’s Bristol, Snape Maltings, Cadogan Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall. We have given concerts for Music in the Round and leading cultural tours operator Martin Randall Travel; we have also received support from Arts Council England for UK touring projects Vivaldi: The Red Priest and The Four Seasons. We have performed abroad in Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Mexico and Spain to great acclaim.

Since we started making records (in 2003), La Serenissima has been universally applauded by publications including American Record Guide, BBC Music Magazine, Diapason, Falstaff Magazine, Fanfare Magazine, Gaudisc, Goldberg Magazine, Gramophone, La Stampa, The Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times, The Strad and The Sunday Times for our performances on the Avie Label. We won the Gramophone Award in the ‘Baroque Instrumental’ category in 2010 for Vivaldi: The French Connection, an album that was later included in an elite Forbes List (2013). Our recordings have regularly made the Top 10 of the UK Specialist Classical Chart, received frequent award nominations, been featured as ‘Disc of the Month’ and ‘Concerto Choice’ (BBC Music Magazine), ‘Editor’s Choice’ (Gramophone), ‘Drive Discovery’ (Classic FM) and on BBC Radio 3 programmes ‘Record Review’ and ‘Building a Library’. Part of the follow-up album to our first ever record Per Monsieur Pisendel has been used on the soundtrack to hit American TV series The Originals.

We celebrated our 21st birthday by recording a new edition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (Manchester version) alongside works for violin 'in tromba marina', a reconstruction collaboration between violinist Adrian Chandler, luthier David Rattray and the musicologist Michael Talbot which was a ‘first’ in modern times. The record entered the UK Specialist Classical Chart at number 8, received numerous accolades in the press (including Irish Times ‘Classical Album of the Year’) and was ranked among the Top 3 choices in Radio 3’s ‘Building a Library’ on The Four Seasons (which covered a discography beginning in the 1940s). Our latest release The Italian Job brings alive instrumental music for 4 trumpets, timpani, wind and strings; the disc was showcased on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Record Review’ and Classic FM’s ‘Drive Discovery’, it was ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Gramophone (May 2017) and went on to secure the group’s second Gramophone Award in September 2017.

Albums

Adrian Chandler & La Serenissima – Vivaldi x2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:17 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Avie Records

“My heart skipped a beat when [The Italian Job] from La Serenissima and Adrian Chandler landed on my desk, such was my enjoyment of their Gramophone Awards-shortlisted Vivaldi Four Seasons recording (AV2344). So to discover that with this all-Italian assortment of sinfonias and concertos they’ve actually topped their 2016 triumph – and apparently effortlessly – gives me no small amount of pleasure.” So said the reviewer of the Gramophone Award-winning release, and the Vivaldi specialists are set to triumph once again with Vivaldi x2, an astonishing medley of double concertos for hunting horns, oboes, bassoon, violin and cello. Emanating from Vivaldi’s pen the double concerto – a genre of which he all but cornered the market – resulted in some of the composer’s most colourful and exuberant works. In the hands of two-time Gramophone Award-winning La Serenissima, these concertos come to virtuosic and effervescent life.

Why the devil the cover of this superbe Vivaldi album sports a doctored photo of a car built in Torino between 1957 and 1975, whereas these double concertos were written around 250 years earlier for Venice, nobody knows. But the result remains a miracle, and a triple miracle too : first, that the recording could take place since it has been sponsored by crowdfunding ; second, that the instrumental quality of La Serenissima and the soloists is so exquisite ; and third, that Vivaldi wrote so many highly original double concertos, some of which for « odd » couples – oboe and bassoon, violin and cello etc. -, others for pairs such as two oboes, two horns (a great rarity in these times). The album, after half a dozen double concertos, ends with another rarity : theConcerto per S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B. – yes, that’s the very title given by Vivaldi himself. Far from being a simple double concerto, is is one for three duets – two horns, two oboes, violin-cello, plus an additional bassoon – in which the composer explores all imaginable arrangements between groups. Whoever said, a few decades ago, that Vivaldi had written the same lame concerto five hundred times again and again (yes, Mr Stravinsky, that’s you we’re talking about) had no idea of what was available in the Vivaldian treasure trove. Ah yes, and as for the cryptic title : the hypothesis per Sua Altezza Serenissima il Signor Principe Giuseppe Maria de’ Gonzaga (or else di Guastalla) Signor Moi Benignissimo seems at least credible…

Tracklist:
1. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 539: I. Allegro 03:09
2. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 539: II. Larghetto 02:29
3. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 539: III. Allegro 02:42
4. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV. 535: I. Largo 01:14
5. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV. 535: II. Allegro 02:38
6. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV. 535: III. Largo 02:35
7. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV. 535: IV. Allegro molto 03:03
8. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Major, RV. 546: I. Allegro 03:26
9. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Major, RV. 546: II. Andante 03:09
10. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Major, RV. 546: III. Allegro 03:15
11. Concerto for Oboe, Bassoon, Strings and Continuo in G Major, RV. 545 : I. Allegro 04:08
12. Concerto for Oboe, Bassoon, Strings and Continuo in G Major, RV. 545 : II. Largo 02:47
13. Concerto for Oboe, Bassoon, Strings and Continuo in G Major, RV. 545 : III. Allegro non molto 03:47
14. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 538 : I. Allegro 03:22
15. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 538 : II. Largo 02:40
16. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 538 : III. Allegro non molto 03:17
17. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in B-Flat Major, RV. 547: I. Allegro 03:59
18. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in B-Flat Major, RV. 547: II. Andante 02:01
19. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in B-Flat Major, RV. 547: III. Allegro molto 03:07
20. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in A Minor, RV. 536: I. Allegro 02:36
21. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in A Minor, RV. 536: II. Largo 02:08
22. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in A Minor, RV. 536: III. Allegro 01:55
23. Concerto per S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B. for Violin, Cello, Two Oboes, Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 574: I. Allegro 04:39
24. Concerto per S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B. for Violin, Cello, Two Oboes, Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 574: II. Adagio 03:17
25. Concerto per S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B. for Violin, Cello, Two Oboes, Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 574: III. Allegro 03:54

Personnel:
Adrian Chandler (violin/director)
La Serenissima

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