Vivaldi-loving Adrian Chandler celebrates the 21st anniversary of his period instruments ensemble La Serenissima with a new recording of the Four Seasons.
The twist is his use of a set of parts held in Manchester’s Central Library, a version he says “represents the composer’s intentions more fully” than the familiar score published in Amsterdam.
The playing is eager and buoyant, and the couplings are first-class, two concertos for the rather raspy violin in tromba marina (using a specially reconstructed, three-stringed instrument), and two highlighting the almost implausibly agile, guttural quacking of Peter Whelan’s earthy baroque bassoon.
