The top Italian ensemble is one of the Styriarte's closest friends - it is impossible to imagine our season-long project of rediscovering Fux's operatic jewels without it. Zefiro concentrates on the music of the 18th century and is considered a worldwide reference especially in the concert repertoire with solo wind instruments.
His incredibly lively and sonorous performing has made the Roman Alfredo Bernardini the leading baroque oboist of our time. As a soloist and conductor, he appears worldwide with top ensembles such as Hespèrion XXI or the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. His own ensemble Zefiro is also a celebrated public favourite at the Styriarte festival.
When Alfredo Bernadini and his Zefiro Baroque orchestra play the air from the Orchestral Suite No.3, the strings soar in an azure blue sky. We hear every possible nuance of sound in these works: the vigorous trumpets, the chirping oboes, the frisky bassoon and the velvety strings. Telemann’s greatest orchestral suite brings in whispering flutes – the love sighs of ancient gods who have strayed into the port of Hamburg.
