The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690–1740

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Adrian Chandler… is given sensitive support by his string and continuo players among which the audible presence of a theorbo is welcome. Soprano Mhairi Lawson highlights the affective contrasts... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th May 2007
Catalogue No: AV2128
Label: Avie
Length: 76 minutes

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Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in B flat, RV 370

Work length12:26

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La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

Allegro

Track length4:30

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Grave

Track length2:59

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Allegro

Track length4:57

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Arias for soprano, strings & continuo from Las costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii, RV 706- premier recordings

Work length10:32

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Mhairi Lawson
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

Sento il cor brillarmi in petto

Track length3:28

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Hai sete di sangue

Track length3:35

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Amoroso caro sposo

Track length3:29

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Concerto for violin, 2 violoncellos, strings & continuo in C, RV 561

Work length9:35

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La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

Allegro

Track length3:35

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Largo

Track length3:17

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Allegro

Track length2:43

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Cencerto / Sinfonia in e for strings & continuo, RV 134

Work length6:23

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La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

[Allegro]

Track length2:14

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Andante e pianissimo

Track length1:53

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Allegro

Track length2:16

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Concerto senza cantin for violin, strings & continuo in d, RV 243

Work length10:32

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La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

Allegro

Track length4:14

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Andante molto

Track length2:38

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[Allegro]

Track length3:40

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Arias for soprano, strings & continuo from La fida ninfa, RV 714

Work length12:07

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Mhairi Lawson
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

Dolce fiamma

Track length6:42

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Alma oppressa

Track length5:25

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Concerto for violin, strings & continuo in E flat, RV 254

Work length14:51

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La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler

Allegro poco

Track length5:53

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Largo

Track length3:30

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Allegro

Track length5:28

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Antonio Vivaldi was famously both a virtuoso performer and an impresario. The same can be said of Adrian Chandler, whose passionate advocacy has associated him with the Red Priest’s music like no other. Following last autumn’s release of The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690–1740, Volume One: The Dawn of the Virtuoso (AV 2106), which earned Chandler and his ensemble La Serenissima an Editor’s Choice from Gramophone magazine, Avie offers the second in a three-volume series exploring the development of the violin and growing demand for virtuoso repertoire during the Italian baroque era, of which Vivaldi was undisputedly the zenith. Mirroring the highly successful format of Volume One, Chandler intersperses dazzling concerti with contemporaneous vocal works, illuminating these genres’ effects on each other in Vivaldi’s oeuvre. If Chandler’s thorough research is a multi-faceted crystal, his performances are the rainbow-hued shaft of light brightly shining through.

Recorded 4 – 7 March 2007 at The Warehouse, Studio 1, London

Reviews

August 2007

Adrian Chandler… is given sensitive support by his string and continuo players among which the audible presence of a theorbo is welcome. Soprano Mhairi Lawson highlights the affective contrasts of the arias with tonal warmth and requisite virtuosity. In summary, an excellent disc.

2010

'Antonio Vivaldi: Virtuoso Impresario' examines links between Vivaldi's concertos and operas.
Thus, the Concerto RV370 has origins partly in the opera Ottone in villa, RV134 was probably once the sinfonia to an oratorio, and RV254 shows signs of having started out life as an entr'acte. It should be said that the links are sometimes tenuous, but who could complain when the snippets of minutely detailed information which Adrian Chandler clearly commands encourage mixed programming so refreshingly different from the Vivaldian norm? It may not always bring us the Red Priest at his most inspired but it certainly shows a few sides to him that we do not always see – enough to confound daft comments about his lack of variety. For this is music brimming with ideas, from the unusual accompanimental texture of the slow movement of RV561, to the E-string-less experiment of RV243 (and the strange, off-beam harmonies of its slow movement), to RV134's excellent fugue.
All are played with La Serenissima's customary bright energy and enthusiasm, to which qualities are here added considerable subtlety of detail: listen to the way Chandler picks his way intelligently through the changing textural landscape of the first movement of RV243. Indeed, his playing throughout shows a smooth but vital tone, a fundamental likeability of sound and manner which is matched by soprano Mhairi Lawson in her five contrasted arias, all relative rarities dispatched with no-nonsense skill and aplomb. Here is further proof from this young British group that the Italian orchestras need not think to have Vivaldi to themselves just yet.

October 2007

…this is music brimming with ideas… All are played with La Serenissima's customary bright energy and enthusiasm, to which qualities are here added considerable subtlety of detail: listen to the way Chandler picks his way intelligently through the changing textural landscape of the first movement of RV243. Indeed, his playing throughout shows a smooth but vital tone, a fundamental likeability of sound and manner which is matched by soprano Mhairi Lawson in her five contrasted arias...

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