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La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler – ‘Diavolo’: Giuseppe Tartini – 6 Violin Sonatas (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:38 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Classical
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The latest instalment from baroque ensemble La Serenissima. Often compared to Vivaldi, Giuseppe Tartini was a famous virtuoso violinist and highly respected teacher, and is best known for the sonata “Il Trillo del Diavolo” (The Devil’s Trill) which is legendary for both its story and for its fiendish level of technical wizardry.
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La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler – An Englishman Abroad (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:28:02 minutes | 1,82 GB | Genre: Classical
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La Serenissima’s latest CD is all about Nicola Matteis the Younger (c. 1670-1737). Born in London to Italian Nicola Matteis, he grew up listening to the music of Purcell before leaving England in 1700 for the imperial court in Vienna. The music on the album is “Carolingian”; it was written either for Charles II of England or for Emperor Charles VI. One might think that English style and English musicians were unknown on the Continent in the early 18th century, but this selection shows that this was not (always) the case.
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La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler – Unlocked, Brescianello Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:13 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album features the second half of Brescianello’s Opus 1; works 1 – 6 were released as ‘Behind Closed Doors’ in 2022. La Serenissima passionately believe that Brescianello is a composer who deserves greater recognition with the result that many of his works have been included in releases dating from 2019, our first release on Signum. Solo concertos for violin alternate with Sinphonias for strings and continuo; both forms illustrate Brescianello’s talent for fusing virtuosity with the sweetest of melodies. Also included on the album is an orchestral suite in A major that finishes with a rousing Giga.
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La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler & Tabea Debus – Settecento (2021)
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Settecento is the style of art, music and architecture that emerged in Italy in the early 18th century, celebrated here by La Serenissima and Adrian Chandler with a collection of works from that era. The works are grouped by the areas of Italy where each composer worked, including the Kingdom of Naples (Scarlatti, Mancini), Republic of Venice (DallAbaco, Vandini, Tartini & Vivaldi) and the Papal States / Bologna (Brescianello). The ensemble La Serenissima is recognized as the UKs leading exponent of the music of 18th-century Venice and connected composers. Uniquely, the groups entire repertoire is edited from manuscript or contemporary sources. It has become synonymous with virtuosity, dynamism and accessibility, uncovering new repertoire and making it available to all through live performance, recordings and educational initiatives.
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La Serenissima & Adrian Chandler – Extra Time (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:12 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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More glorious Baroque high jinks from the sparkling players of La Serenissima, including concertos by Vivaldi and Brescianello, a double-trumpet sinfonia by Albinoni, and two opulently scored ballet suites by Nicola Matteis the Younger.
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La Serenissima – The Godfather (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:11 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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The musical world of eighteenth-century Europe was a small one. Despite the problems presented by contemporary standards of transport, it was quite normal for composers in one part of Europe to be entirely au fait with what was happening elsewhere. This is borne out by the closeness of three German composers: Telemann, godfather to C.P.E. Bach; Pisendel; and J.S. Bach, who admired both his compatriots and composed some astoundingly difficult music for the violinist Pisendel. This programme celebrates their music as well as the music of those who contributed to their musical heritage. Included alongside the German triumvirate are works by Vivaldi who physically helped with the composition of Pisendel’s A minor concerto movement, Fasch who was a great friend of Pisendel and Telemann, and Brescianello, an Italian who helped the dissemination of Italian instrumental music throughout the German-speaking lands and whose concertos were played in Dresden by Pisendel.
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La Serenissima & Adrian Chandler – Behind Closed Doors: Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Vol. 1: Opus 1 Concerti & Sinphonie (2021)
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A contemporary of Vivaldi, Brescianello is a composer whose music languishes in relative obscurity. Whilst the mists of time have claimed some composers’ music for justifiable reasons, Brescianello’s music presents many compelling arguments for its restoration. Having first included Brescianello in La Serenissima’s 2014 season, they have since staged his opera Tisbe, recorded a violin concerto (included in the “Extra Time” programme), a trio sonata (Settecento) and other works. It is surprising that the Opus 1 was the only set of works that Brescianello chose to publish and La Serenissima have now been given the opportunity to start their exploration of this wonderful publication.
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La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler – Forza Azzurri! (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:16 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
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Looking at the variety of Italian baroque instrumental music on offer to today’s listener, one could be forgiven for thinking that Vivaldi had faced little competition during his lifetime. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Whilst the volume of music that flowed from Vivaldi’s pen was unusually plentiful, many other composers were needed to fulfil the needs of the regional courts and churches throughout Italy.
Expert early-music ensemble La Serenissima perform here some works by Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, Giuseppe Sammartini, Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco and Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello alongside works by Vivaldi on this new album of Italian Baroque masterpieces.
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La Serenissima & Adrian Chandler – Vivaldi’s Women (2022)
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Apart from a short period (1717-1719) spent in Mantua under the patronage of Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, Vivaldi never held a full-time post in church or at court; for a composer of Vivaldi’s talent and standing, this was most unusual. That said, he was employed for significant periods by the Ospedale della Pietài, a Venetian institution (founded c.1340) that cared for unwanted children, often illegitimate or physically disadvantagedii. The Pietà’s performers were taken from a group of women known as the figlie di coro, who sang and played the violin, violin in tromba marina, viola, viola d’amore, cello, violone, viol, double bass, theorbo, mandolin, harpsichord, organ, oboe, flute, recorder, chalumeau and clarinet. The Pietà developed a strong reputation for its musical performances, engaging the finest composers and teachers of the day. It was important to ensure that the standards were high; after all, these entertainments were most popular with Venetians and visitors alike whose donations provided a welcome extra source of revenue.
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Mhairi Lawson, La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler – Vivaldi: L’Amore per Elvira (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:07 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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L’Amore per Elvira is the title La Serenissima have given this disc, referring to the fact that the three chamber cantatas it includes deal with the ups and downs of love for a lady of that name. Put together they tell a neat little story; the lover timidly declares his feelings; the lover must go on a journey and makes a tearful farewell; the lover returns for a joyous reunion. Each consists of a pair of recitatives and arias, and while the latter are full of the kind of striking and demanding vocal writing we have learnt to expect from Vivaldi, it is the opening recitatives which seem most determined to grab the attention. From the trembling trills at the start of Tremori al braccio or the slightly overwrought Elvira anima mia to the excitable Lungi del vago volto, each sets the mood for its ensuing cantata with memorable boldness and imagination.
Mhairi Lawson brings to them her characteristically bright and powerful tone and strong sense of drama. The three instrumental works which interleave with the cantatas on this disc Adrian Chandler presents with an engaging combination of keen-edged incisiveness and silky tone.
Amid the current welter of Vivaldi recordings, however, there is no doubt that with well programmed and performed releases such as this, La Serenissima are winning an important place for themselves. –Gramophone, January 2007
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Adrian Chandler & La Serenissima – Vivaldi x2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:29 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical
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“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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