Tafelmusik shall be sharing the stage with oboist Alfredo Bernardini for his or her Triple Espresso concert events February 21 to 23. The Italian oboist has been a visitor director with baroque orchestras throughout the globe, from Europe to Canada to Australia and South America.
Bernardini and Tafelmusik shall be performing a program the oboist has chosen, together with Telemann’s Concerto in B-flat Main for 3 violins and three oboes, the Suite in G Minor for 3 oboes by Fasch, Handel’s Oboe Concerto, and Bach’s Suite in D Main.
We caught up with Bernardini to ask him a couple of questions in regards to the live performance, and his music.
Alfredo Bernardini
Alfredo Bernardini was born in Rome, and moved to Holland in 1981 on the age of 20 to focus his research on the baroque oboe and early music. He earned a soloist diploma on the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Koninklijk Conservatorium den Haag) in 1987. He’s carried out extensively throughout Europe, in Canada, Asia, the Center East, Australia and South America as a member of baroque ensembles comparable to Hesperion XX, Le Live performance des Nations, La Petite Bande, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and others.
Bernardini is a prolific recording artist who seems on greater than 100 releases. With brothers Paolo and Alberto Grazzi, he based the ensemble Zefiro in 1989. Their recordings have gained the Cannes Classical Award, and the Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2009.
He’s presently professor on the Mozarteum College of Salzburg.
Alfredo is understood for his full of life and interesting efficiency fashion, in addition to his virtuosity on the oboe.
Alfredo Bernardini: Q&A
LvT: How did you get your begin in music? Did you develop up in a musical household?
AB: Once I was six, my mom obtained me to sing in a kids’s refrain — the choir of the Accademia Filarmonica in Rome, my hometown. My mother and father had been scientists, but in addition artwork and music lovers. Because of this, my three siblings are an artwork restorer, a composer, a painter and I’m an early music performer.
LvT: Why the oboe, and why Baroque? When did you determine (or understand) that the Baroque oboe repertoire was what you needed to focus on?
AB: The identical Accademia in Rome began a recorder class and that’s how I obtained into wind devices. My ardour for (early) music was sparked in 1972 on the age of 10, once I attended the Urbino summer season course created by the visionary Giancarlo Rostirolla. Urbino Musica Antica continues to be taking place every year over the past 10 days of July, and I’m presently its Inventive Director.
LvT: What’s it about Baroque music that earns new followers even centuries later?
AB: Music from the 18th Century is all about human feelings. It’s good that we nonetheless have emotions three centuries later! This music strikes us, its language could be very near poetry, it may be actually alive and never historical in any respect. It was by no means meant to be previous.
LvT: You’ve hand picked this system for the live performance — what made you choose these works particularly: Fasch Ouverture-Suite in G Minor; Telemann Concerto in B-flat Main; Handel Oboe concerto in G Minor; Bach Suite in D Main?
AB: These 4 composers had been born in about the identical years and in the identical nook of the world: Northeast Germany. They underwent an identical rigorous Lutheran schooling they usually very a lot revered one another. But this program is filled with selection, as some items comply with extra the French dancing fashion, whereas different the Italian cantabile fashion. I’m assured that after once more Tafelmusik will transfer its viewers with this lovely evergreen music.
- Discover extra particulars in regards to the live performance, and tickets, [HERE].
Are you seeking to promote an occasion? Have a information tip? Must know the very best occasions taking place this weekend? Ship us a observe.
#LUDWIGVAN
Get the day by day arts information straight to your inbox.
Join the Ludwig Van Toronto e-Blast! — native classical music and opera information straight to your inbox HERE.
Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.
