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Chandler’s tempos are invariably ‘just so’ – expertly executed, spaciously recorded, the disc consolidates and celebrates the ensemble’s Vivaldian roots as its 25th anniversary year beckons.... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Jul 2018
Catalogue No: AV2392
Label: Avie
Length: 75 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

20th July 2018
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October 2018

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Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 539

Work length8:20

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Anneke Scott, Jocelyn Lightfoot
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

I. Allegro

Track length3:09

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Larghetto

Track length2:29

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Allegro

Track length2:42

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor for Two Oboes, RV 535

Work length9:30

$4.00

$5.60

$7.00

Rachel Chaplin, Mark Baigent
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

I. Largo

Track length1:14

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Allegro

Track length2:38

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Largo

Track length2:35

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

IV. Allegro molto

Track length3:03

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin & Viola da gamba, 'La maggiore' RV546

Work length9:50

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Vladimir Waltham
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

I. Allegro

Track length3:26

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Andante

Track length3:09

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Allegro

Track length3:15

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Vivaldi: Concerto for Oboe & Bassoon in G major, RV 545

Work length10:42

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Rachel Chaplin, Peter Whelan
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

I. Allegro

Track length4:08

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Largo

Track length2:47

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Allegro non molto

Track length3:47

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Horns and Strings RV538

Work length9:19

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Anneke Scott, Jocelyn Lightfoot
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

I. Allegro

Track length3:22

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Largo

Track length2:40

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Allegro non molto

Track length3:17

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin & Cello in B flat minor, RV 547

Work length9:07

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Vladimir Waltham
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

I. Allegro

Track length3:59

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Andante

Track length2:01

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Allegro molto

Track length3:07

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Vivaldi: Concerto for two oboes in A minor, RV 536

Work length6:39

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Rachel Chaplin, Mark Baigent
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

I. Allegro

Track length2:36

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Largo

Track length2:08

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Allegro

Track length1:55

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

Vivaldi: Concerto for Multiple Instruments in G minor RV574

Work length11:50

$3.00

$4.20

$5.25

Mark Baigent, Vladimir Waltham, Peter Whelan, Rachel Chaplin, Jocelyn Lightfoot, Anneke Scott
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

I. Allegro

Track length4:39

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

II. Adagio

Track length3:17

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

III. Allegro

Track length3:54

$1.00

$1.40

$1.75

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Recording of the Week, Vivaldi Double Concertos from Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima

20th July 2018

Adrian Chandler and his acclaimed team of baroque instrumentalists present a sparkling selection of Vivaldi's unique double concerti.

“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.

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October 2018

Chandler’s tempos are invariably ‘just so’ – expertly executed, spaciously recorded, the disc consolidates and celebrates the ensemble’s Vivaldian roots as its 25th anniversary year beckons. Quarter of a century or no, La Serenissima’s youthful mojo shines brightly!

September 2018

It’s a feast of pleasures right from its RV539 kick-off: the most glittering of Vivaldi’s two double horn concertos…headed up here by soloists Anneke Scott and Jocelyn Lightfoot with some fantastically nimble, neat, exuberant period horn-playing…However, you’ll forget to miss the horns here in the concerto, RV538, because what we get instead is another soloist to whom I could listen all day, cellist Vladimir Waltham; hear his gently grainy, luminous tone and his sighing trills, and fall in love.

It’s exuberantly joyful from start to finish, and the players’ enjoyment of this holiday spirit is palpable in cheeky shades of rubato license, in lusty tuttis and in pair-solo passages that seem to bespeak an almost telepathic level of mutual understanding between the soloists…Pride of place has to go to the incredible talent of the two horn soloists Anneke Scott and Jocelyn Lightfoot.

12th August 2018

Under Chandler, the playing, vibrant yet polished to perfection, is superb.

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