Alfredo Bernardini
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Special offer. Telemann: Ouvertures à 8 for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo
Zefiro Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini
The much-vaunted lean muscularity of the Ensemble Zefiro...produces a freshly balanced sonority that alters our experience of these works...Special praise is due to the superb, unstinting continuo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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Bernardini conducts with impeccable dramatic pacing and perceptive shaping of details...as one expects from Zefiro, there is magnificent playing from assorted woodwinds. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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In BWV1066 trio passages are played by oboists Alfredo Bernardini and Paulo Grazzi and bassoonist Alberto Grazzi with unerring momentum and nuanced deftness...French-style dances lilt, sway... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Fux: La Corona d'Arianna
Monica Piccinini (Venere), Carlotta Colombo (Arianna), Marianne Beate Kielland (Teti), Rafał Tomkiewicz (Bacco), Meili Li (Peleo)
Zefiro, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Alfredo Bernardini
La Corona d'Arianna is wonderful in this version by director Alfredo Bernardini, who drastically shortened the opera due to 2022 COVID measures...The stand-out principal is Carlotta Colombo.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Opera Choice
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Zefiro’s playing remains an abiding pleasure. Yet for my taste, Wörner’s clean, stylish singing never seems quite enough in some of Bach’s most searching and, it’s tempting to say, intensely... —
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Bernadini’s grandly scored extracts for double woodwinds, including basset-horns, four horns and double-bass from Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte make serenades of these masterly operas.... —
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Special offer. Vivaldi - Concerti per vari strumenti
Paolo Grazzi, Alfredo Bernardini (oboes), Lorenzo Coppolla, Daniele Latini (clarinets), Stefano Montanari (violin)
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The performance by Zefiro is energetic and lively. There is a good sense of phrasing and the instruments all fit with each other in perfect ensemble. The disc itself is an excellent view into... —
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Converting a reputation as a distinguished solo harpsichordist into one as an orchestral director is not an obvious path these days. Performances of Bach's Suites are usually led from the continuo... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Special offer. Er Heißet Wunderbar!
Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Halvor F. Melien (baritone)
Barokkanerne, Alfredo Bernardini
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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