La Serenissima
Since its formation in 1994, La Serenissima has established a reputation as a top historical-performance group in the U.K. and beyond. The group balances original scholarly content with accessible playing that has had a broad appeal and has even been featured on U.S. television.
"La Serenissima" is part of the formal name for the city-state of Venice, in full La Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia ("The Most Serene Republic of Venice"). Indeed, the group has specialized in the music of Antonio Vivaldi and other Venetian composers, gradually broadening its focus but generally retaining a strong sense of Baroque music as it lived in a specific place. La Serenissima first came into existence as an ad hoc group formed for a 1994 performance of the rarely heard Vivaldi trio serenade La Senna festeggiante, RV 693. Its director was violinist Adrian Chandler, a native of Merseyside and a graduate of the Royal College of Music, who had studied both modern and Baroque violin. When he formed La Serenissima, he was still a student.
La Serenissima recorded its first album, Per Monsieur Pisendel, in 2003. The album featured the music of Johann Georg Pisendel, a violin virtuoso and composer; Chandler himself was the soloist. The group has recorded unusual material, generally working from manuscript sources, but has also recorded works as familiar as Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos (in 2016, albeit in an unusual English edition). Between 2006 and 2008, the group released a three-album series devoted to the rise of the northern Italian violin concerto, and the following year saw the appearance of Vivaldi: The French Connection, an album examining the popularity of Vivaldi's music in France. The group has performed widely across the U.K. and beyond, appearing at Bridgewater Hall, Sage Gateshead, and Wigmore Hall, among other venues. La Serenissima held a residence at the St. John's Smith's Square venue under the rubric "The Grand Tour" and has appeared at various festivals, including the Vivaldi in Venice Festival in 2017.
Even with its scholarly orientation, La Serenissima has released albums such as Venice at Night (2012) that are aimed squarely at general audiences. The group's second Pisendel album, Per Monsieur Pisendel 2 (2014), was featured in the U.S. television series The Originals. La Serenissima issued The Italian Job, an album devoted to virtuoso concertos from various Italian cities, in 2017. La Serenissima's 2018 album Vivaldi x2, devoted to double concertos by Vivaldi, topped classical sales charts in Britain and was chosen as album of the week by the crossover-oriented Classic FM radio network. La Serenissima moved to the Signum Classics label for The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque in 2019, following it up with Extra Time, an album of Baroque rarities that the group had intended for previous releases. La Serenissima remained active during the COVID-19 pandemic, issuing six albums on Signum Classics between 2021 and 2023. All of these dealt with little-known and newly unearthed Baroque repertory; the 2023 release An Englishman Abroad: Nicola Matteis the Younger and the English Style in 18th Century Europe was representative.
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Unlocked, Brescianello Vol. 2
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Classical - Signum Records 発売日 2023/10/27
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An Englishman Abroad
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Chamber Music - Signum Records 発売日 2023/05/05
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'Diavolo': Giuseppe Tartini - 6 Violin Sonatas
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Classical - Signum Records 発売日 2024/03/22
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Behind Closed Doors, Brescianello Vol. 1
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Classical - Signum Records 発売日 2021/10/08
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons • Concertos for Bassoon & Violin 'in tromba marina'
Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima, Peter Whelan
Classical - Avie Records 発売日 2015/09/04
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The Italian Job (Caldara, Corelli, Albinoni, Tartini...)
Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima
Classical - Avie Records 発売日 2017/02/24
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Forza Azzurri!
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Classical - Signum Records 発売日 2022/11/11
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Vivaldi's Women
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Classical - Signum Records 発売日 2022/08/26
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Vivaldi: The French Connection (Concertos for Flute, Violin, Bassoon & Strings)
Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima
Classical - Avie Records 発売日 2009/07/02
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Per Monsieur Pisendel 2 (Six Virtuoso Violin Sonatas of the Baroque)
Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima
Classical - Avie Records 発売日 2014/07/08
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Vivaldi x2
Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima
Classical - AVIE Records 発売日 2018/07/09
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Settecento
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler, Tabea Debus
Classical - Signum Records 発売日 2021/02/12
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Extra Time
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Classical - Signum Records 発売日 2020/07/31
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The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690–1740 | Volume 3: The Golden Age
Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima
Classical - Avie Records 発売日 2008/06/24
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The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690–1740 | Volume 1: The Dawn of the Virtuoso
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler, Mhairi Lawson
Classical - Avie Records 発売日 2006/08/21
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The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690–1740 | Volume 2: Antonio Vivaldi - Virtuoso Impresario (Concertos, Arias & Sinfonia)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Classical - AVIE Records 発売日 2007/07/10
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Vivaldi: The French Connection 2 (Concertos for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Bassoon & Strings)
Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima
Classical - AVIE Records 発売日 2011/06/02
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Vivaldi: L’Amore per Elvira
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler, Mhairi Lawson
Classical - Linn Records 発売日 2006/06/01
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Chacony for Strings & Continuo, Z. 730
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Chamber Music - Signum Records 発売日 2023/03/21
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Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 11, No. 2, RV 277 "Il Favorito": I. Allegro
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Chamber Music - Signum Records 発売日 2023/04/06
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Concerto for Viola d’Amore, Strings & Continuo in D Minor, RV 394: I. Allegro
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Classical - Signum Records 発売日 2022/07/13
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