VIVALDI

Gods, Emperors & Angels

Concertos for Recorder, Violin, Bassoon and Strings

Avie Records - AV2201 Total running time 72.16 mins

Chandler and his players match the extremes of Vivaldi's musical imagination with chutzpah of their own. A real pleasure.
**** (five stars)
The Irish Times, May 2010

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VIVALDI

The French Connection

Concertos for Flute, Violin, Bassoon and Strings

Avie Records - AV2178 Total running time 75.16 mins

Chandler is an impeccably stylish soloist in two concertos. Throughout, he also directs La Serenissima in eloquently precise but excitingly spontaneous performances of unfailingly imaginative music.
The Sunday Times, July 2009

Vivaldi at his stylistic best… La Serenissima's period instruments bring a smooth beauty to some of the composer's most elegant music.
Daily Express (5 stars), June 2009

…this is a disc to leave you with a spring in your step.
The Irish Times, (5 stars), August, 2009

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The Rise of the Northern Italian Violin Concerto: 1690-1740

Volume three - The Golden Age

Avie Records - AV2154 Total running time 79.35 mins

His cadenza is finely conceived and executed – he is clearly a highly talented soloist as well as [a] skilful editor and director.
International Record Review, July /August 2008

The two enduring features of this series have been the fantastic sound of La Serenissima and the virtuosic confidence of its director, Adrian Chandler.
Early Music Review, August 2008

Music Web International record of the month

Classic FM record of the week

Gramophone Award Nomination

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The Rise of the Northern Italian Violin Concerto: 1690-1740

Volume two - Antonio Vivaldi, Virtuoso Impresario

Avie Records - AV2128 Total running time 76.38 mins

…this latest disc from the excellent British baroque orchestra La Serenissima fizzes with excitement. Solo fiddle and founder Adrian Chandler delivers his lines with steely assertiveness in the allegros and tender lyricism in the slow movements… stupefying.
Classic FM Magazine * Orchestral Record of the Month *, September 2007

Music Web International record of the month

Classic FM magazine orchestral record of the month

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The Rise of the Northern Italian Violin Concerto: 1690-1740

Volume one - The Dawn of the Virtuoso

Avie Records - AV2106 Total running time 77.51 mins

This is a disc full of rare goodies
Gramophone Magazine *Editor's Choice*, November 2006

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L'Amore per Elvira

Antonio Vivaldi

Linn Records CKD 281 - Total running time 76.11 mins


Superbly Stylish...sails off into the stratosphere
London Evening Standard

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Music for the Chapel of the Pièta

Antonio Vivaldi: Vocal Music & Sacred Concerti

Avie Records - AV2063 Total running time 79.58 mins

...exemplary...you can't help loving it...
Classical Music Web, March 2005
(CD of the Month)

Classic FM magazine top 12 records of the year

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Vivaldi in Arcadia

Concertos and Arias

Avie Records - AV0031 Total running time 79.32 mins

some of the most confident and stylish Vivaldi playing I have heard
International Record Review, March 2004

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Per Monsieur Pisendel

Six Virtuoso Violin Sonatas of the Baroque

Avie Records - AV0018 Total running time 79.09 mins

This is the first commercial recording - and an outstanding one
The Sunday Times, March 2003

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