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La Serenissima: Vivaldi & Telemann – Crossing Borders

La Serenissima: Vivaldi & Telemann – Crossing Borders: Concerto for Flute, Harpsichord and Continuo, TWV 42:D6 Telemann (+6 More)

The Four Seasons: Concerto La Primavera for violin, strings & continuo in E Major, RV 269 "Spring": I. Allegro

La Serenissima & Adrian Chandler, Violin/Director
Recorded at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, June 2023


"Spring" is the first concerto from Antonio Vivaldi's famous composition "The Four Seasons" (Le Quattro Stagioni), a set of four violin concertos, each representing a different season. The work was composed around 1723 and is part of Vivaldi's Opus 8, "Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Invenzione" (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). 

It is believed that Vivaldi himself wrote sonnets to accompany each concerto, providing a programmatic element to the music.

The concerto "Spring" (La Primavera) is in three movements and captures the vibrant and picturesque aspects of the season. The first movement, marked "Allegro," depicts the awakening of nature with cheerful birdsong, flowing streams, and blossoming flowers. The lively and joyful melodies evoke the sense of renewal and the arrival of spring.     


Join us for a live performance of these fantastic works:
6pm, Friday 22nd September at The Tung, Liverpool
7:30pm, Saturday 23rd September at Cartmel Priory
7:30pm, Monday 11th December at The Wigmore Hall, London

Details and tickets here: https://www.laserenissima.co.uk/events/


Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons, part of Op.8 Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Invenzione, are renowned classical music concertos. They gained immense popularity in the 18th century and have enchanted audiences worldwide since the Vivaldi revival in the early 20th century. The programmatic works feature descriptive tags and accompanying sonnets, possibly written by Vivaldi himself. 

The concertos were dedicated to Count Wenzel von Morzin and published in Amsterdam in 1725. While the autograph manuscript is lost, this "Manchester" version of The Four Seasons has been transcribed by Adrian Chandler from surviving manuscript parts, believed to have been prepared by Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, Antonio Vivaldi's father, around 1726. 

They are housed at the Henry Watson Music Library in Manchester, UK and may transmit an earlier version of the concerti, which could be closer to Vivaldi's original intentions than the more well-known Amsterdam version. 

The works draw inspiration from ancient texts and rhetorical concepts, showcasing Vivaldi's operatic composition skills through various themes and concepts. The concertos' allegorical design raises intriguing questions and connections between them.


Listen to La Serenissima's album "The Four Seasons" here: https://www.laserenissima.co.uk/produ...


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Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: Concerto La Primavera in E Major, RV 269 "Spring": I. Allegro

La Serenissima is recognised as the UK’s leading exponent of the music of eighteenth-century Venice and connected composers. Uniquely, the group’s entire repertoire is edited from source material, and it has been praised for its ‘glorious and all-too-rare ability to make one’s pulse race afresh with every new project’ (Gramophone). La Serenissima has become synonymous with virtuosity, dynamism and accessibility, uncovering a plethora of new repertoire and making it available to all through live performance, high calibre recording work, education and outreach initiatives.

Since the first album was released in 2003, La Serenissima’s recordings have been applauded by numerous publications and have attracted multiple awards, besides being chosen to feature in international advertising (Versace, 2018) and film (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2020). In 2010, The French Connection won the Gramophone Award for ‘Baroque Instrumental’. The Four Seasons was released in 2015, spending several weeks in the UK Specialist Classical Chart and selected as Editor’s Choice (Gramophone) and Concerto Choice (BBC Music Magazine). In 2017, The Italian Job won a further Gramophone Award. The ensemble’s album Vivaldi x2 topped the UK Classical Chart upon release in 2018, with The Sunday Times writing that ‘under Adrian Chandler, the playing, vibrant yet polished to perfection, is superb.’ Most recently, La Serenissima’s album Extra Time has received exhaustive radio play from all major UK radio stations and clocked up over 250,000 streams in the first 2 weeks of release, with Gramophone remarking that ‘the music-making is top-drawer and joyous’.

La Serenissima has performed throughout the UK and internationally in both urban and rural venues: many projects have reached new audiences through project funding from Arts Council England. In 2018 it gave the first modern performance of Brescianello’s opera Tisbe for the Buxton Festival. In 2019 La Serenissima opened the London Festival of Baroque music, debuted at the Snape Proms and gave the modern premiere of Caldara’s opera Lucio Papirio Dittatore in Buxton; they also launched a new animateur-led outreach programme for key-stage 2 children as part of The Godfather tour.

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

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