Ensemble Zefiro
According to Greek mythology, ZEFIRO was the tender and kind God of the Western Wind.
In 1989, the oboists Alfredo Bernardini and Paolo Grazzi, and the bassoonist Alberto Grazzi, members of the most outstanding baroque orchestras, founded ZEFIRO, a versatile music group specialising in the eighteenth-century repertoire that gives particular prominence to wind instruments.
Since then, ZEFIRO has performed at many major European festivals, including those of Amsterdam, Aranjuez, Barcelona, Bonn, Geneva, Graz, Helsinki, Innsbruck, London, Liege, Lyons, London, Malmö, Manchester, Milan, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Potsdam, Prague, Ravenna, Regensburg, Rome, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Stresa, Utrecht and Vienna. They have also played in Israel, Egypt, Japan, Korea, USA, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil and have always received enthusiastic responses from both audiences and the press.
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- “Having been warmly reviewed in these pages as recently as the November issue, Ensemble ZEFIRO would seem at the top of their game, because their performances in this selection of three of telemann’s virtuoso Ouvertures is hardly less dazzling than their Vivaldi bassoon concertos… The much-vaunted lean muscularity of the Ensemble ZEFIRO performances favours the wind instruments and, when joined with one-to-a-part strings, produces a freshly balanced sonority that alters our experience oif these works… Special praise is due to the superb, unstinting continuo players.” Julie Anne Sadie, Gramophone, March 2014
“Le hautbois coloré aux inflexions proches de la voix humaine de Bernardini y chante à merveille. « Combattans » est une étonnante mise en scène d’un combat entre style français et ses pointées confiées aux hautbois, et le style italien et ses cordes « vivaldiennes ». Un combat musical ou il n’y a qu’un seul gagnant, la musique, à partir du moment où elle naît de la plume d’un compositeur d’exception capable d’assimiler diverses influences et les faire cohabiter en parfaite symbiose. Encore faut-il des interprètes à la hauteur. Zefiro est de ceux-là.” Michel Lambert, Crescendo, 27 novembre 2013. leggi tutto
Calendario concerti | Concert Dates
21 aprile 2015: Milano
Mozart Gran Partita
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