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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There's a piece on this record that had no ending until Adrian wrote one. Hell's Angels is out today 🏍 Eighty minutes of brand new La Serenissima, and if you're not joining us in Gloucester tonight, a night in with this instead sounds like a pretty good one to us.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's last week's rehearsal at St Martin-in-the-Fields. The piece is Vivaldi's Concerto for two violins in A minor, RV 523, and it's the odd one out on this programme: concerti grossi all the way through, and then this, a double concerto with two soloists out front. Adrian Chandler and Oliver Cave

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a harvest moon this weekend 🌕 The harvest moon is the full moon closest to the autumn equinox. It rises at roughly the same time several nights running. Before floodlights, that was how the harvest got gathered: a run of reliable evening light to work by. Then everyone went to the pub 🍻

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2027 marks 300 years since Vivaldi published La Cetra, the concertos he dedicated to an emperor who fancied himself as Apollo. We'll mark it with Here Comes the Sun in Liverpool, London and Wells, thanks to @continuoconnect.bsky.social. Delighted to be a Round 12 grantee! #Vivaldi #EarlyMusic

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Concerto #8 in G Op.2" by Tomaso Albinoni / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler, violin / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2106

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Concerto for 2 Horns, Strings and continuo in F RV 539" by Antonio Vivaldi / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler, soloists @annekescott.bsky.social, Jocelyn Lightfoot, horn / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2392

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We've realised we don't SHOUT about our Patreon nearly enough 🗣️ So here we are, announcing it again, for those of you who have not yet realised you should have signed up already. This is the Entrée from Telemann's Ouverture-Suite in A minor. As far as we can tell, nobody has ever commercially..

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More voices like Harriet's deserve the chance to grow up in a building like this. Harriet sang her first service in Gloucester Cathedral when she was seven. On 9 October she's back to sing the soprano solo in THE BIG CONCERT — Vivaldi's motet Carae rosae, respirate, RV 624, reconstructed by...

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Does this strike terror into your heart? 😱 It should. Guillemain's music, wrote Adrian in the booklet notes, "should strike terror into the heart of any mortal player". This sonata is officially a harpsichord piece, virtuosic in the extreme, and the violin accompaniment is fiendish too.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Telemann wrote around 600 orchestral suites. We'd wager you've never heard this one (unless you've been paying close attention 😉). Adrian's latest deep-dive is now live on Patreon: Telemann's Ouverture-Suite in A minor, a tour of Europe in eight dances.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

THE BIG CONCERT 🎉 We didn’t come up with the name. The eighteenth century did. Concerto grosso, literally “big concert”. The blockbuster form of the baroque era: a small group of soloists against the full band, and everyone showing off their fast notes.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Somebody had to cut these notes into a copper plate, one by one, backwards. That somebody was Louise Roussel, one of the finest music engravers in Paris. She was working in the trade years before she met Leclair, and she engraved his sonatas in 1728. In 1730, reader, she married him.

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Violin Sonata in Bb" by Tomaso Albinoni / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, soloist Adrian Chandler, violin / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2308

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Flute Concerto in a RV 440" by Antonio Vivaldi / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler, soloist Katy Bircher, flute / @avierecords.bsky.social

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Pop us a message and we’ll add you to our mailing list so you don’t miss the next one! Or head over to our website to sign up there 😄 #LaSerenissima #AdrianChandler #ItalianBaroque #Vivaldi #VivaldiSummer

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Meet Jean-Marie Leclair, one half of the legendary 1728 duel at Kassel that gave Hell’s Angels its name. He came to the violin sideways (he arrived in Paris as a ballet master), and you can hear it: elegance, poise, not a hair out of place.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A year on from a successful shoulder surgery & celebrating with a slightly risky walk 😅 A beautiful week in Wales with the family & feeling very grateful: to the medical team who patched me up & to all of you for sticking with us ❤️ Have a great summer. See you for more music in the autumn. Adrian

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sea, sand, sun... and ice? The finale of Vivaldi's Winter opens with small, careful steps out onto the ice. It doesn't last. Slip, fall, up, run, and the whole sheet gives way underneath. The opening of that third movement, live at The Tung Auditorium in Liverpool.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In 1610 Monteverdi published his Vespers & dedicated it to the Pope. 3 years later, Venice gave him the top job at St Mark's. Draw your own conclusions. Tomorrow we perform it at @gloucestercathedral.org.uk for @threechoirs.bsky.social, 7.30pm. Tickets: 3choirs.org/events/monteverdi-vespe…

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

No, the new album has nothing to do with Satanism (we've had the email). Why Hell's Angels, then? Two duelling violinists in 1728, a rejected title, & some actual bikers in Gloucester. Adrian explains all. Coming soon on Signum Classics.

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Concerto for violin, 2 cellos, and strings" by Antonio Vivaldi / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler, violin, soloists Gareth Deats, cello, Sarah McMahon, cello / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2128

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When you're a Venetian nobleman, you can afford to take a few financial risks. Marcello didn't take just one here, but two. This piece comes from a collection for cello or viola da gamba (the printed music allows either 😀). A bold choice for an Italian in the 1730s, by which time the viol had...

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Winter is the Season nobody warns you about. Spring dances, Summer storms, but L'Inverno turns inward: a frozen Veneto in sound, and a hard look at what old age means. The last of the four, and the most personal. Adrian's own translation of the sonnet is now on our Patreon. #Vivaldi #FourSeasons

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

THE BIG Concert is coming. That's literally what "concerto grosso" means & the baroque era did big concerts properly. Picture a small band of soloists going head-to-head with a full ensemble: call & response, light & shade, drama built into the music itself. The 18thC answer to surround sound.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just in time for the next heatwave, Winter is now live on Patreon! Vivaldi's L'Inverno is the last of the Four Seasons Concertos. Where Spring dances and Summer storms, Winter turns inward; literal depiction of a frozen Veneto and a reflection on what it means to reach old age.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Questionable timing? Perhaps. But hear us out. This is the 2nd movement of Winter, where Vivaldi's sonnet tells us to sit contentedly by the hearth while everyone else gets soaked in the rain outside. Swap the hearth for a fan and the rain for a 30-degree heatwave, and it's practically topical.

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"Concerto for violin, oboe, strings and continuo in F RV 543" by Antonio Vivaldi / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, soloists Adrian Chandler, violin, Gail Hennessy, oboe / @avierecords.bsky.social

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Concerto #8 in G Op.2" by Tomaso Albinoni / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler, violin / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2106

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Dropping Vivaldi's Winter in the middle of a heatwave here in the UK felt... unkind. So we've waited for the weather to come to its senses, and our next Patreon video lands next week ❄️ Which means there's still time to sign up and catch up with Spring, Summer, Autumn and Adrian's very first Q&A.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Out today! 💿 The first single from our upcoming album, Hell's Angels 🏍️ This is the opening of the finale of Vivaldi's Sonata in G major for violin, cello and continuo, RV 820; one of his earliest works.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Kettledrums, kettlebells. Tomato, tomahto if you're a timpanist in the 1740s. Most composers see a pair of timpani and think: lovely, that'll do. Christoph Graupner saw a pair of timpani and thought: more. His Sinfonia in F (GWV 566) hands a single player six kettledrums, and asks them to cover...

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Concerto for diverse instruments in F RV 569" by Antonio Vivaldi / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2154

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"Fugue in d" by Francesco Maria Veracini / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2257

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"Bassoon Concerto in C, RV 467" by Antonio Vivaldi / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler, soloist Peter Whelan, bassoon / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2371

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

48ish hours of travel, one soaring gothic church, and a programme worth every mile. Huge thanks to Summerwinds Festival, Munster and Tabea Debus for bringing us to Münster to open the festival — Fasch, Heinichen, Montanari, Valentini and Vivaldi, with a Telemann encore for the road.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

You asked, Adrian answered. In our first Q&A exclusively for Patreon, Ade sat down with Sarah to tackle all those burning questions you sent in. Like his favourite Vivaldi violin concerto. Or his favourite 35 🙄 Full Q&A on Patreon now 🎻

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We think Ade's remembered where his passport is! 😉 We're off to Germany this week with the wonderful Tabea Debus for our first gig abroad in recent memory 😵💫 We'll be at the Apostelkirche in Münster this Friday (19 June, 8pm) for Summerwinds Münsterland – a programme of baroque splendore...

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Italian baroque music doesn't play itself. We're recruiting the players who can. La Serenissima's Emerging Artist Chairs are open for 2026. We're looking for period string players with real fire in the fingers. There's a chance for up to four players to join us for our autumn concerts...

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Adrian makes all the editions we play from; working directly from source manuscripts, living with the composers’ intentions before a single bow is drawn. It's that same instinct that led him to produce his own translation of the L'Autunno sonnet because translating is itself an act of understanding

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It's been a busy week or two for Ade. He's finalised the audio for an upcoming album (top secret for now — and not the one we mentioned in our newsletter this morning 😄), filmed the next batch of Patreon content, and squeezed in a rehearsal for our upcoming concerts.

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"Violin Sonata in Bb" by Tomaso Albinoni / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, soloist Adrian Chandler, violin / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2308

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"Concerto for 2 Oboes in F Op 9/3" by Tomaso Albinoni / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler, soloists Gail Hennessy, oboe, Rachel Chaplin, oboe / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2371

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Classical California Now Playing @kdfc-playlist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"La vendetta d'amore: Sinfonia in C" by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo / @laserenissimauk.bsky.social, conducted by Adrian Chandler, soloist Simon Munday, trumpet / @avierecords.bsky.social sp. 2257

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The opening ritornello of L'Autunno's final movement is pure organised chaos; the hunters stirring before first light, the dogs, the guns, the noise and excitement of a chase about to begin. Vivaldi doesn't ease you in. But we can: full performance on Patreon 🙃

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Swipe to read the sonnet Vivaldi wrote to accompany L'Autunno in the original Italian alongside an English translation. Three distinct worlds: the harvest celebration, the wine-heavy sleep that follows, and finally the hunt: ending with the wounded creature, struggling to flee before it is overcome.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

THE BIG CONCERT is coming to Liverpool 🥳 We can't wait to be back at The Tung Auditorium in October with our next project, THE BIG CONCERT: Italian baroque concerti grossi 🎻🎻🎻🎻 Well, mostly Italian. We let one Englishman in, as he did title his concerto "alla Venetiana" 🇮🇹

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

You say Chalamet, we say chalumeau. Before the clarinet stole the spotlight, this little single-reed instrument was the star of the baroque era. Swipe through to find out more!

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

You probably already know Vivaldi was nicknamed ‘the Red Priest’ owing to his magnificent ginger curls and profession. As a priest how was he so familiar with the stages of drunkenness he vividly depicts in Autumn? Inspiration was likely drawn from his immediate family. Receipts on Patreon

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What began as wholesome, folk dancing becomes increasingly less decorous. By bar 33 Vivaldi’s indication is simply "the drunks." Without a doubt, it is the solo violinist who is the ringleader, with Vivaldi’s imagination providing a brilliantly executed rendition of drunken behaviour.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Vivaldi was an ordained priest. He was also a man of his time; steeped in classical mythology, ancient allegory, and the kind of folk wisdom that predated the Enlightenment's tidying-up operation. He would never have admitted to reading his horoscope. He would have read it.

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