The selections on this release by Baroque violinist Adrian Chandler and his chamber orchestra La Serenissima are items left over from previous projects; the Extra Time title refers to a 2015 recording session where the group had time remaining in the studio after recording the Vivaldi Four Seasons violin concertos. The music was recorded in different places; one can tell, but producer and editor Simon Fox-Gįl has knitted the selections together into a coherent sonic whole. Leftovers these recordings may be, but Chandler has ...
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The selections on this release by Baroque violinist Adrian Chandler and his chamber orchestra La Serenissima are items left over from previous projects; the Extra Time title refers to a 2015 recording session where the group had time remaining in the studio after recording the Vivaldi Four Seasons violin concertos. The music was recorded in different places; one can tell, but producer and editor Simon Fox-Gįl has knitted the selections together into a coherent sonic whole. Leftovers these recordings may be, but Chandler has done in-depth research into the northern Italian Baroque violin concerto and has a large bag of interesting material that nobody else has touched. His specialty is Vivaldi, and the concertos included here are distinctive and attractive. The largo from the Concerto for violin, strings, and continuo, RV 365, yields to none of its better-known cousins for sheer lyrical beauty, and that from the Concerto per Sua Maestą Cesarea e Cattolica for violin, strings, and continuo, RV 171, is a...
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