ZEFIRO BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

Description

ZEFIRO BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
Alfredo Bernardini, oboe e direzione

AQUA
Rappresentazione barocca dell’acqua

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
"Water Music"  Suite in F (HWV 348. London 1715)

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Wasser-Ouverture C Dur, TWV55:C3 (Hamburg 1723)

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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
"Water Music"  Suite in D major (HWV 349, London 1717) and in G major/minor (HWV 350, London 1736)

London, 17 July 1717: the Thames is covered with boats and barges resounding of the spectacular Water Music, that Händel tributed to George I.

Hamburg, 6 April 1723: booming cannons and flags on the Elbe celebrate the centenary of the Collegium Admiralität, the historical institution for the maritime traffic and nautical affairs. On that occasion Telemann composed his Wassermusik.

The brilliant Italian ensemble Zefiro tells us a music story of water: in storm and hail, placid and silent, enlivened by Naiads and Tritons…