Catalogue

Summary:

Gramophone Awards 2017: Winner – Baroque Instrumental

“The Italian Job’ has all their [La Serenissima’s] hallmarks: a fresh, zinging tone alive with vitality and enjoyment, an effortless easy panache from both ensemble and soloists, and the whole underpinned by a scholarly attitude to programming and performance style which is yet worn with a light grace.” – Gramophone – Editor’s Choice

“The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting crisply articulated vitality to the faster ones. Peter Whelan brings fluent virtuosity to Vivaldi’s Bassoon Concerto in G.” ★★★★ BBC Music magazine

Adrian Chandler and his period-instrument ensemble La Serenissima present The Italian Job, a feast of instrumental colour featuring oboes, bassoons, trumpets, trombone, timpani, strings and continuo, by some of the finest composers of the Italian baroque. The music on this recording comes from four cities with a rich musical heritage: Venice (Albinoni, Caldara, Vivaldi), Bologna (Torelli), Padua (Tartini) and Rome (Corelli).

Tracklist:

ANTONIO CALDARA (c.1671–1736)
Sinfonia for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, timpani, violin, strings & continuo in C
1. I. Allegro (5.31)
2. II. Andante, piano [e] staccato (4.47)
3. III. Allegro (4.42)

ARCANGELO CORELLI (1653–1713)
Sinfonia to Santa Beatrice d’Este for strings & continuo in D minor
4. I. Grave (2.35)
5. II. Allegro (1.41)
6. III. Adagio (0.44)
7. IV. Largo assai (2.57)
8. V. Vivace (2.13)

Giuseppe Tartini (1692 – 1770)
Concerto for violin, strings & continuo in E, D 51 (16.49)
9. Allegro (6.39)
10. Grave “Tortorella bacie…” (5.29)
11. Allegro assai (4.41)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Concerto ‘alla rustica’ for 2 oboes, strings & continuo in G, RV 151 (4.16)
12. Presto (1.10)
13. Adagio (1.07)
14. Allegro (1.58)

Concerto for bassoon, strings & continuo in C, RV 467 (11.11)
15. Allegro (4.08)
16. Adagio (2.54)
17. Allegro (4.08)

Tomaso Albinoni (1671 – 1751)
Concerto for 2 oboes, strings & continuo in F, Op 9/3 (11.07)
18. Allegro (4.37)
19. Adagio (2.32)
20. Allegro (3.58)

Giuseppe Torelli (1658 – 1709)
Sinfonia for 4 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 violins, 2 cellos, strings & continuo in C, G 33 (7.45)
21. Allegro (3.49)
22. Adagio (0.25)
23. Allegro (3.30)

Total time: 76.23

Recording: 23 – 26 August, 2016, St John’s, Smith Square, London, England
Recording produced, engineered and edited by Simon Fox-Gál
Editions: Adrian Chandler
Keyboard preparation: Robert Howarth & Malcolm Greenhalgh
Pitch: A = 440 Hz
Termperament: Vallotti