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Vivaldi: The French Connection 1

La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler

Vivaldi: The French Connection 1

Awards:

The performances… are typically neatly-pointed and vivacious.

Vivaldi: The French Connection 1

La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler

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The performances… are typically neatly-pointed and vivacious.

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After the extremely successful and acclaimed series ‘The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto’ Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima return to AVIE to explore another side of Vivaldi’s compositions : The French Connection.

“The voracity with which the French devoured Italian music during the late baroque period is well documented. Vivaldi was involved in both the dissemination of the French style in Italy and that of the Italian style in France. His works achieved fashionable status there in the late 1720s thanks to his concertos Le Quattro Stagioni which became a feature at the popular Concert Spirituel (between 1728 and 1763).” Adrian Chandler

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro
Track length2:41
II. Adagio
Track length0:24
III. Ciacona
Track length3:09
I. Allegro non molto
Track length3:11
II. Largo
Track length2:57
III. Allegro
Track length2:19
I. Largo
Track length1:56
II. Allegro
Track length2:13
III. Largo
Track length1:32
IV. Allegro
Track length2:22
I. Allegro
Track length3:52
II. Andante
Track length3:26
III. Allegro
Track length3:25
I. Allegro
Track length2:14
II. Largo
Track length1:38
III. Allegro
Track length2:25
I. Allegro
Track length2:35
II. Andante
Track length1:44
I. Allegro
Track length2:40
II. Largo
Track length2:31
III. Allegro
Track length2:39
I. Allegro
Track length2:47
II. Largo
Track length1:33
III. Allegro
Track length1:36
I. Allegro non molto
Track length6:03
II. Larghetto
Track length3:52
III. Allegro
Track length5:52

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    Awards Issue 2009
    Editor's Choice
  • Gramophone Awards
    2010
    Winner - Baroque Instrumental

October 2009

The performances… are typically neatly-pointed and vivacious.

Awards Issue 2009

…the three solo instruments come and go in various combinations, always pleasing us and never outstaying their welcome. They are played with skill and taste… The orchestral sound, as always with La Serenissima, achieves bright attractiveness and vivacity without feeling the need to pursue the taut energy of some other groups. And that's just fine.

5th July 2009

Chandler is an impeccably stylish soloist in two violin concertos. Throughout, he also directs La Serenissima in eloquently precise but excitingly spontaneous performances of unfailingly imaginative music

The Independent on Sunday 25th July 2009

In the flamboyant double-dots of the C-minor concerto, the melancholy groundbass of the G-minor concerto and the delicious closing Chaconne of the C-major, the playing is consistently zestful. Chandler, flautist Katy Bircher and bassoonist Peter Whelan play a further series of exacting concertos with the effortless musicality of birds.
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