Numerical Sound Client, Ensemble Zefiro

Water Musick (Handel), Wassermusik (Telemann)
Ensemble Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini
Recorded in St.John’s Smith Square, London by Musica Numeris
Produced, engineered and edited by Simon Fox-Gál
Ambroisie, 2004 AMB9946

Record of the Month (Musicweb-International)

Producers Comments

Reverb added to live performance material (drier due to audience present) using IR 1785.

About Ensemble Zefiro

According to Greek mythology, Zefiro was the sweet and benign God of the winds of the west.

In 1989, the oboists Alfredo Bernardini and Paolo Grazzi, and the bassonist Alberto Grazzi, founded Zefiro, a group with an organic variable, specialized in that repertory of the 1700's in which the winds have a prominent role, joining with the respective experiences collected participating to the activity of the most prestigious baroque orchestras.

From then Zefiro has been included in important european festivals (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Geneva, Innsbruck, Lione, Manchester, Milan, Munich, Palma de Maiorca, Paris, Prague, Regensburg, Utrecht, etc), having everywhere a large success of public and critic.

Moreover, the recordings of the six sonatas of J. D. Zelenka and of music for winds groups of W. A. Mozart, both for the French label Astrèe-Auvidis, have been rewarded with various international prizes, like the Grand Prix du Disque, and (these recordings) make Zefiro a reference point for this repertorio in the entire world.

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