Adrian Chandler & La Serenissima - Vivaldi x2 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

“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.

Tracklist:
1. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 539: I. Allegro 03:09
2. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 539: II. Larghetto 02:29
3. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 539: III. Allegro 02:42
4. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV. 535: I. Largo 01:14
5. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV. 535: II. Allegro 02:38
6. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV. 535: III. Largo 02:35
7. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, RV. 535: IV. Allegro molto 03:03
8. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Major, RV. 546: I. Allegro 03:26
9. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Major, RV. 546: II. Andante 03:09
10. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Major, RV. 546: III. Allegro 03:15
11. Concerto for Oboe, Bassoon, Strings and Continuo in G Major, RV. 545 : I. Allegro 04:08
12. Concerto for Oboe, Bassoon, Strings and Continuo in G Major, RV. 545 : II. Largo 02:47
13. Concerto for Oboe, Bassoon, Strings and Continuo in G Major, RV. 545 : III. Allegro non molto 03:47
14. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 538 : I. Allegro 03:22
15. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 538 : II. Largo 02:40
16. Concerto for Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 538 : III. Allegro non molto 03:17
17. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in B-Flat Major, RV. 547: I. Allegro 03:59
18. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in B-Flat Major, RV. 547: II. Andante 02:01
19. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in B-Flat Major, RV. 547: III. Allegro molto 03:07
20. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in A Minor, RV. 536: I. Allegro 02:36
21. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in A Minor, RV. 536: II. Largo 02:08
22. Concerto for Two Oboes, Strings and Continuo in A Minor, RV. 536: III. Allegro 01:55
23. Concerto per S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B. for Violin, Cello, Two Oboes, Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 574: I. Allegro 04:39
24. Concerto per S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B. for Violin, Cello, Two Oboes, Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 574: II. Adagio 03:17
25. Concerto per S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B. for Violin, Cello, Two Oboes, Two Horns, Strings and Continuo in F Major, RV. 574: III. Allegro 03:54

Personnel:
Adrian Chandler (violin/director)
La Serenissima