La Serenissima (2)

Adrian Chandler director/violin & violino in tromba marina
Peter Whelan bassoon
La Serenissima orchestra

Le Quattro Stagioni / The Four Seasons (Manchester version)
Concerto per violino in tromba marina, strings & continuo in D, RV 221
Concerto per Maestro dè Morzin for bassoon, strings & continuo in g, RV 496
Concerto per violino in tromba marina, strings & continuo in G, RV 313
Concerto La notte for bassoon, strings & continuo in B flat, RV 501

In this all Vivaldi programme, award-winning La Serenissima perform The Four Seasons - the most popular piece of classical music of all time - in a brand new edition made by violinist Adrian Chandler.

A true renaissance man, Vivaldi was at the forefront of baroque innovation, keen to experiment with new textures and sound worlds. To reflect this, the programme also includes works for bassoon and, for the first time since the eighteenth century performances of two of Vivaldi’s concertos for ‘prepared violin’ (the violino in tromba marina). Adrian Chandler, luthier David Rattray and Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot have teamed up to recreate this curious and loud instrument from evidence surviving in the archives of the Ospedale della Pietà, the famous foundling institution with which Vivaldi was associated for much of his career.

Performance ends at approximately 9.30pm.