La Serenissima
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The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690-1740
Volume One: The Dawn of the Virtuoso
Mhairi Lawson (soprano)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (violin and director)
These mostly unfamiliar pieces make highly enjoyable listening, especially when played with the natural exuberance that La Serenissima bring to them. Legrenzi's dances are catchy, Navara's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Vivaldi - Music for the Chapel of the Pieta
Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Robert Howarth (organ), Sarah McMahon (cello solo)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (violin & direction)
…Mhairi Lawson sings with secure intonation, expressive sensibility and pleasing warmth of colour. Chandler is the solo violinist in four strongly contrasted concertos… In two of them he is... — More…
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Venice by Night
Simon Munday (trumpet), Peter Whelan (bassoon), Mhairi Lawson (soprano)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
a delightful vignette of 18th-century Venetian nightlife...Lawson is, in turn, a gondola-borne singer...equally at home in the simplest syllabic songs, genlte cantabile and, at the end, a sparkling... — More…
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Vivaldi’s use of colour and texture is, like the great Venetian painters before him, one of the defining characteristics of his style – as La Serenissima’s new disc vividly demonstrates. This... — More…
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The Essentials: Vivaldi
Kati Debretzeni (violin), Marco Rogliano (violin), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Adrian Chandler (violin), Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet), Laura Vukobratović (trumpet), Bela Sztankovitz (guitar), Zoltán Tokos (guitar), Tamás Benkócs (bassoon), Angelo Manzotti (counter-tenor), Elena Cecchi-Fedi (soprano),...
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There is no doubt that with well programmed and performed releases such as this, La Serenissima are winning an important place for themselves. — More…
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