Adrian Chandler director, violin
Pamela Thorby recorder
Sara-Deborah Struntz violin
Peter Whelan bassoon

Vivaldi Concertos for Violins, Recorder and Bassoon

This dazzling period-instrument band is rapidly securing itself an exalted place in the realms of Baroque music performance, with audiences thrilling to the energetic sounds of its players and charismatic virtuoso director Adrian Chandler.

A new 'Gods, Emperors and Angels' programme mines the treasures of Vivaldi's extraordinary output, offering encounters with the charming Venus (Concerto l'amoroso forviolin), a Holy Roman Emperor who is likened to the lyre playing god Apollo (La Cetra for double violin) and a host of angels who are revealed to be none other than the virtuoso female students taught by Vivaldi at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice. All this alongside concertos that combine jaw-dropping agility with the baleful tones of the baroque bassoon, the piping notes of the sopranino recorder and a depiction of tritons blowing their conch shells to ward off impending storms in a splendid Conca Concerto.

'This is a Vivaldi recital of wonderful contrasts, played with fizzing energy, crisply articulated, vividly coloured and passionate.' The Sunday Times

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