Vivaldi and Southampton
La Serenissima has just released a new CD, Vivaldi: The French Connection (AVIE AV 2178), of Vivaldi concertos for violin, flute and bassoon.
The violin soloist is La Serenissima's director, Adrian Chandler, who held an AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts in the Department of Music from 2005-2008, and the flute soloist in the concertos is Southampton’s flute tutor, Katy Bircher. Katy plays a specially commissioned new flute at high Venetian pitch for this recording, the first in a two-part project to be completed in 2010.