Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, etc. – La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler

Adrian Chandler, who founded the period instrument ensemble La Serenissima twenty-one years ago, has produced a dozen enlightened, acclaimed, and award-winning albums for Avie. He has made world premiere recordings of rediscovered works by Vivaldi and his seventeenth-century Italian contemporaries. He consistently applies a unique touch that combines erudition with approachability.

After many years of anticipation, he turns his attention to the touchstone of Vivaldi’s concerto output, The Four Seasons. As one has come to expect, he brings something unique to an interpretation brimming with vitality, having created his own, new edition based on the only surviving manuscript of these works.

Putting this most popular of classical works into context, he rounds out the recording with Vivaldi concertos for bassoon, including the famous La Notte, and world-premiere recordings of two concertos for the violino in tromba marina, a long since obsolete instrument that was used during Vivaldi’s lifetime, and that Chandler has helped to recreate and bring back to life for twenty-first-century music lovers.