Gramophone Award-winning Adrian Chandler and his period-instrument ensemble La Serenissima present The Italian Job, a feast of instrumental colour featuring oboes, bassoons, trumpets, trombone, timpani, strings and continuo, by some of the finest composers of the Italian baroque. The music on this recording comes from four cities, each with a rich musical heritage: Venice (Albinoni, Caldara, Vivaldi), Bologna (Torelli), Padua (Tartini) and Rome (Corelli).
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Reviews
ICMA Baroque Instrumental Category Nominee
2018 International Classical Music Awards
"...This is period playing of the highest technical caliber, calculated to arouse varies emotional responses in listeners. The recorded sound is ideal. The program gives great pleasure and evokes the sense of spectacle which no doubt accompanied much of the music. Recommended ..."
Michael De Sapio - Fanfare - September/October 2017
“This is a refreshing and eclectic collection of Italian baroque concertos and sinfonias... The soloists and ensemble are superb and Adrian Chandler is very effective both as leader and as soloist in the Tartini concerto. As has been noted in the earlier reviews for this group ... they play with precision and passion, both readily evident on this new release.”
Charles Brewer – American Record Guide – July/August 2017
Baroque Instrumental Category - Winner
Gramophone Music Awards 2017
Performance **** Recording ****
Nicholas Anderson - BBC Music magazine - August 2017
Editor’s Choice – Orchestral Sections
“...La Serenissma have a glorious and all-too-rare ability to make one’s pulse race afresh with every new project, and ‘The Italian Job’ has all their typical hallmarks: a fresh, zinging tone alive with vitality and enjoyment, an effortless easy panache from both ensemble and soloists, and the whole underpinned by a scholarly attitude to programming and performance style which is yet worn with light grace ...”
Charlotte Gardner - Gramophone magazine – May 2017
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