La Serenissima is one of the UK’s leading historical performance ensembles. Directed by Adrian Chandler, the group specializes in the music of Antonio Vivaldi and his contemporaries. They have performed worldwide to great acclaim and in 2010 won a Gramophone Award. Their eleventh CD, Venice by Night was released in June 2012 and includes world premiere recordings of music by Lotti, Pollarolo, Porta and Veracini alongside better known composers such as Vivaldi and Albinoni ; this CD reached the top ten of the UK classical charts. Their concert diary for 2012 includes the opening night of the Bath International Music Festival, the Israeli and British premieres of Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade and the New Year’s Eve concert at the Wigmore Hall .