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Vivaldi X2-2
Antonio Vivaldi

La Serenissima

Vivaldi X2-2

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212090824
Catnr: SIGCD 908
Release date: 02 August 2024
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Signum Classics
UPC
0635212090824
Catalogue number
SIGCD 908
Release date
02 August 2024
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About the album

A follow up to their album Vivaldi X2, this new offering from baroque specialists Las Serenissima combines further double concerti by Antonio Vivaldi with works for violin, cello, oboe, recorder and continuo. The previous album received rave reviews including Recording of the Month from BBC Music Magazine. These are some of Vivaldi’s most colourful and joyful works, and with director Adrian Chandler at the helm listeners can look forward to further baroque excellence from this dynamic ensemble.

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La Serenissima

Recognised for ‘whipping up a storm with Vivaldi’, La Serenissima is ‘one of Britain’s best-loved chamber orchestras’ (The Telegraph). The group has uncovered a plethora of neglected music, making it available to all through live performance, recording and outreach. Uniquely, the group’s entire repertoire is edited from source material by founder and violinist, Adrian Chandler OSI. Established in 1994, La Serenissima is recognised for its outstanding recording catalogue, which is regularly featured on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and international radio; as well as in worldwide advertising (Beats, 2022) and film (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2020). The group has twice won the Gramophone Award for ‘Baroque Instrumental’ for The French Connection (2010) and The Italian Job (2017). La Serenissima...
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Recognised for ‘whipping up a storm with Vivaldi’, La Serenissima is ‘one of Britain’s best-loved chamber orchestras’ (The Telegraph). The group has uncovered a plethora of neglected music, making it available to all through live performance, recording and outreach. Uniquely, the group’s entire repertoire is edited from source material by founder and violinist, Adrian Chandler OSI.

Established in 1994, La Serenissima is recognised for its outstanding recording catalogue, which is regularly featured on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and international radio; as well as in worldwide advertising (Beats, 2022) and film (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2020). The group has twice won the Gramophone Award for ‘Baroque Instrumental’ for The French Connection (2010) and The Italian Job (2017). La Serenissima topped the UK Classical Chart in 2018 with album Vivaldi x2.

The ensemble’s growing online following is evidenced by more than a 1.3 million monthly Spotify listeners; their 2015 recording of The Four Seasons is now ‘potentially the most streamed interpretation ever’ (Gramophone). Forza Azzurri! (2022) was featured on Italian Radio:24 – “No irony, simply the umpteenth demonstration of the love of Adrian Chandler, founder and director of the La Serenissima ensemble, for our country and for our music.” The group creates digital outreach resources for everyone, available on YouTube, and opportunities for young professional instrumentalists from across the globe via Emerging Artist Chairs. ‘Discovering Vivaldi’, a 50-minute podcast, was enabled by Culture Recovery Funding in 2022 – helping La Serenissima to reach audiences in different ways.

La Serenissima has performed throughout the UK and internationally in concert series and festivals including London Festival of Baroque Music, MustonenFest (Estonia), Handel-Festspiele (Germany), Valletta International Baroque Festival (Malta) and International Cervantes Festival (Mexico). The group has given the UK premiere of Brescianello’s opera Tisbe (2018) and the modern premiere of Caldara’s opera Lucio Papirio Dittatore (2019). The group’s ‘exquisite playing’ (The Guardian) has featured in two Monteverdi productions at Longborough Festival Opera since the pandemic. La Serenissima celebrates its 30th Anniversary at London’s Wigmore Hall during 2024-5 with a residency ‘The A-Z of the Italian Baroque’.

La Serenissima is proud to have as its Honorary Patron, His Excellency The Ambassador of Italy to the UK.


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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some...
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.
Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some success with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna, hoping for preferment. However, the Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and Vivaldi himself died less than a year later in poverty.

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01.
Concerto for 2 violins, 2 oboes, 2 recorders, strings & continuo in C, RV 557: I. Allegro non molto
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Concerto for 2 violins, 2 oboes, 2 recorders, strings & continuo in C, RV 557: II. Largo
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 violins, 2 oboes, 2 recorders, strings & continuo in C, RV 557: III. Allegro non molto
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 cellos, strings & continuo in g, RV 531: I. Allegro
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 cellos, strings & continuo in g, RV 531: II. Largo
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 cellos, strings & continuo in g, RV 531: III. Allegro
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 flutes, strings & continuo in C, RV 533: I. Allegro molto
02:37
(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 flutes, strings & continuo in C, RV 533: II. Largo
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 flutes, strings & continuo in C, RV 533: III. Allegro
02:26
(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in G, RV 516: I. Allegro molto
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in G, RV 516: II. Andante
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in G, RV 516: III. Allegro
03:25
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Concerto for 2 oboes, strings & continuo in C, RV 534: I. Allegro
02:51
(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 oboes, strings & continuo in C, RV 534: II. Largo
03:26
(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 oboes, strings & continuo in C, RV 534: III. Allegro
03:01
(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in B?, RV 524: I. Allegro
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in B?, RV 524: II. Andante
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(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in B?, RV 524: III. Allegro
03:18
(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto Il Proteo ò il Mondo al Roverscio for violin, cello, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, harpsichord, strings & continuo in F, RV 572: I. Allegro
04:02
(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto Il Proteo ò il Mondo al Roverscio for violin, cello, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, harpsichord, strings & continuo in F, RV 572: II. Largo
02:56
(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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Concerto Il Proteo ò il Mondo al Roverscio for violin, cello, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, harpsichord, strings & continuo in F, RV 572: III. Allegro
03:39
(Antonio Vivaldi) La Serenissima
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