Sinfonia to L’Incoronazione di Dario for strings & continuo, RV 700
Arias from Arsilda and L’Incoronazione di Dario for mezzo-soprano, strings & continuo Concerto Il Grosso Mogul for violin, strings & continuo, RV 208
Concerto for violin, strings & continuo in B flat, RV 367
Arias from Motezuma (RV 723) for mezzo-soprano, strings & continuo

Vivaldi specialists Adrian Chandler’s and La Serenissima’s hallmark qualities of erudition combined with crowd-pleasing performances have made them one of the best-selling and acclaimed period-instrument bands performing today. Recently their Gramophone Award-winning album Vivaldi: The French Connection (AV 2178) topped a Forbes list of How to Build a Top Quality Classical Music Library. Their last release, Venice by Night (AV 2257) made the Top Ten of the UK Specialist Classical Chart. Their 11th release for Avie, Vivaldi: A Tale of Two Seasons once again presents the Red Priest in an engaging and fascinating light. Focusing on two Venetian operatic seasons of 1717 and 1733, the enlightening program juxtaposes the work of an eager young man with that of an older, more cunning composer who had adapted his music to that of the fashionable Neapolitan style

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Recorded March 2013, at the Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester; Producer: Simon Fox-Gál