Product DescriptionVivaldi specialist Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima's hallmark qualities of erudition, combined with crowd-pleasing performances, have made them one of the best-selling and most acclaimed period instrument bands performing today. Recently their Gramophone Award-winning album Vivaldi: The French Connection (AVR 2178) topped a Forbes list of How to Build a Top Quality Classical Music
Library. Their eleventh release for AVIE, 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 the fashionable Neapolitan style.