Artists
- La Serenissima
- Adrian Chandlerdirector, violin
- Peter Whelanbassoon
Archived Event
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
La Serenissima; Adrian Chandler director, violin; Peter Whelan bassoon
- Date
- Fri 15 Jan 2016, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Antonio Vivaldi1678-1741
- Concerto in G for violin 'in tromba marina', strings and continuo RV311
- Concerto in G minor for bassoon, strings and continuo RV496
- Concerto in D major for violino 'in tromba marina', strings and continuo RV221
- Concerto in B flat major for bassoon, strings and continuo 'La notte' RV501
Interval
- Antonio Vivaldi1678-1741
- Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in E major 'La primavera' RV269
- Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in G minor 'L'Estate' RV315
- Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in F 'L'autunno' RV293
- Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in F minor 'L'inverno' RV297
Overview
Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima have built anall-Vivaldi programme complete with ‘ghosts, birds,unrequited love, guns, drunks, dogs … and apimped-up violin’.
Their 21st anniversary concertpresents the Venetian composer’s famous ‘FourSeasons’ in an edition based on the work’s onlysurviving manuscript copy. Vivaldi’s adventurousspirit can also be heard in two concertos for thetromba marina, a single-stringed instrument thatsounds like a trumpet.
Adrian Chandler, luthier DavidRattray and Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot have teamedup to recreate this curious and loud instrument fromevidence surviving in the archives of the Ospedaledella Pietà, the famous foundling institution withwhich Vivaldi was associated for much of his career.