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Live from Spoleto 2025: Volume 2 – Vivaldi Meets Vahdat
About the Album
Live from Spoleto 2025: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 Vivaldi Meets Vahdat deepens the sense of dialogue across time and culture. Mahsa Vahdat’s songs are interwoven with movements from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, creating a listening experience that reframes both worlds. For Wiancko, the pairing was a deliberate leap—and a necessary one. He describes it as an experiment rooted in intuition, one that allowed listeners to “live in her world for an entire program,” rather than encounter her music in isolation. The result is a continuous emotional narrative, where Persian song and Baroque concerto speak to one another across centuries.
Artists
Mahsa Vahdat, voice
Daniel Chong, violin
Daniel Phillips, violin
Geneva Lewis, violin
Livia Sohn, violin
Jessica Bodner, viola
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Paul Wiancko, cello
Anthony Manzo, bass
Pedja Mužijević, piano
Production Credits
Producer: Paul Wiancko
Executive Producer: Michael Hostetler
Recording Engineer, Mixed & Mastered: Andreas K. Meyer
Stereo & Dolby Atmos Mixing and Mastering: Andreas K. Meyer
Assistant Recording Engineers: Nancy Conforti, Jennifer Nulsen
Edited by Paul Wiancko
Post Production completed at Swan Studios NYC www.swanstudios.nyc