チャンドラー&ラ・セレニッシマ!
ヴィヴァルディの二重協奏曲集 続編登場!
英国屈指のバロック・ヴァイオリニスト、エイドリアン・チャンドラーによって1994年に創設されたピリオド・アンサンブル、ラ・セレニッシマ。"赤毛の司祭"ヴィヴァルディを中心とする18世紀ヴェネツィアとその周辺の作曲家たちの知られざる作品や、再発見された作品の世界初録音を続々と世に送り出し、これまで2度のグラモフォン賞に輝いています(「セレニッシマ」は、「晴朗きわまるところ」という意味の、ヴェネツィアの別称)。
2018年にAvieからリリースされ、英BBCミュージック・マガジンでは2018年10月の『Recording of the Month』にも選ばれた「ヴィヴァルディ×2」(AV2392)の続編が、Signum Classicsから登場!
今作でも、フルート、オーボエ、ヴァイオリン、チェロなど様々な楽器・編成のためのダブル・コンチェルトが組み合わされ、エイドリアン・チャンドラーのダイナミックなアンサンブルで、ヴィヴァルディのもっとも色彩豊かで楽しい作品群と、更なるバロック音楽の素晴らしさをお届けします。
ケイティ・バーチャー(フルート&リコーダー)やレイチェル・チャップリン(オーボエ)などの一流古楽器奏者たちのソロにも注目!
東京エムプラス
発売・販売元 提供資料(2024/06/05)
La Serenissima is a Vivaldi-specialist group whose output has only accelerated, aided perhaps by the fact that director Adrian Chandler is said to have edited a concerto a day during COVID shutdowns. The group seems to find takers for everything they put out, and this energetic release made classical best-seller lists in the summer of 2024. Vivaldi x22 is a sequel to 2019s Vivaldi x2, an album of double concertos with which it shares double-Fiat graphics. There are more double concertos here, but as the title (perhaps) suggests, the repertory here even goes beyond doubles, offering a six-member solo group in the Concerto for two violins, two oboes, two recorders, strings, and continuo, RV 557, and even further in the final Concerto Il Proteo o il Mondo al Reverscio for violin, cello, two flutes, two oboes, harpsichord, strings, and continuo, RV 572 ("Proteus, or The World Turned Upside Down"). This wild work refers to the Carnival season, and one can hear references to the seasons anything-goes quality in the music. Chandler does well to substitute an organ for the harpsichord solo, adding possible wind textures to the already large textural palette. Many of the concertos were written for Vivaldis complement of youthful female soloists at the Ospedale della Pieta and reflect the atmosphere of creative exuberance there, but there is at least one late work, the Concerto for two violins, strings, and continuo in B flat major, RV 524, that shows traces of the emerging galant style. The pairs interplay is absorbing and entertaining, and although these works have been recorded before, there isnt a common one in the bunch, and even those with large Vivaldi collections will find something new here. ~ James Manheim
Rovi