La Serenissima
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The Italian Job
RecommendedBaroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States
Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes) & Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Chandler’s tempos are invariably ‘just so’ – expertly executed, spaciously recorded, the disc consolidates and celebrates the ensemble’s Vivaldian roots as its 25th anniversary year beckons.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th July 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Vivaldi 8 Volume 1: The Four Seasons & Other Concertos
RecommendedAdrian Chandler (violin), La Serenissima
Be prepared to be enthralled by the energy and audacity of this version. We are so inculcated with The Four Seasons as wallpaper music that it takes a performance such as this one to make us... —
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Building A Library, May 2026, Top Choice (The Four Seasons)
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
RecommendedAdrian Chandler (director/violin), Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima
an intensely dramatic account that will add spice to what has for many listeners perhaps come to resemble a dreary domestic relationship…[all] are realised in vivid colours through the agency... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, September 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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La Serenissima offers an appealing conspectus of Vivaldi’s colourfully instrumental palette. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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The performances… are typically neatly-pointed and vivacious. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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If Chandler’s programming of oddities and fragments sometimes looks like a musicological download, the sound his orchestra makes soon makes you forget that. Bright, clear, open and gloriously... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Crossing Borders
Adrian Chandler (violin), Katy Bircher, Tabea Debus (recorder), La Serenissima (chamber ensemble)
There is a cosmopolitan feel to this recording of music by CROSSING BORDERS well-known and unfamiliar Baroque composers...The Red Priest himself is represented by an unmistakably Venetian-style... —
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Enthusiasts of La Serenissima will need no encouragement to acquire these brilliant, sturdy performances, led by the tireless virtuosity of leader Adrian Chandler. —
