Italian Job - Various Composers

Gramophone Award-winning Adrian Chandler and his period-instrument ensemble La Serenissima present The Italian Job, a collection of colourful concertos by composers from four cities with a rich musical heritage: Venice (Albinoni, Caldara, Vivaldi), Bologna (Torelli), Padua (Tartini) and Rome (Corelli).

The Italian Job, offers a feast of instrumental colour featuring oboes, bassoons, trumpets, trombone, timpani, strings and continuo, by some of the finest composers of the Italian baroque.

Personnel: Adrian Chandler (director, violin), La Serenissima, Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes), Peter Whelan (bassoon)

Critical acclaim for Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima:

A Four Seasons for all seasons...To become another Four Seasons recommendation takes something special, and this absolutely is. - Gramophone, Editor's Choice (on Vivaldi The Four Seasons)

These are musicians who quite simply love their Vivaldi. - BBC Music Magazine, Recording of the Month (Vivaldi: A Tale of Two Seasons)