Quartetto Bernardini – Around Mozart. A Journey Through the Golden Age of the Oboe Quartet (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quartetto Bernardini – Around Mozart. A Journey Through the Golden Age of the Oboe Quartet (2021)
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With its debut recording, the Bernardini Quartet takes us on a journey into the golden age of its formation, consisting of oboe, violin, viola and cello. The programme consists of a selection of exemplary pieces written between 1780 and 1818 by composers of different nationalities who are united by their diversity.

Alongside Alfredo and Cecilia Bernardini, father and daughter, respectively oboist/director and first violin of the Ensemble Zefiro, the members are the German violist Simone Jandl and the Dutch cellist Marcus van den Munckhof.

The programme begins with one of the earliest quartets for these forces, by Johann Christian Bach; continues with Mozart’s Quartet KV370/360b, a milestone of the genre, followed by a romance with variations by the French composer Charles Bochsa, a substantial four-movement quartet by the cellist Dotzauer and a delightful little quartet by Alessandro Rolla, violinist and conductor of La Scala, Milan; and ends with a meditative perpetual canon by the Bohemian Georg Druschetzky, based on a famous Lutheran chorale. In this recording, Alfredo Bernardini used five different period oboes.

Tracklist:

01. Quartetto Bernardini – Quartet in B-Flat Major, WB60: I. Allegro (07:52)
02. Quartetto Bernardini – Quartet in B-Flat Major, WB60: II. Rondò (03:55)
03. Quartetto Bernardini – Quartet in F Major, K. 370/368b: I. Allegro (06:31)
04. Quartetto Bernardini – Quartet in F Major, K. 370/368b: II. Adagio (02:38)
05. Quartetto Bernardini – Quartet in F Major, K. 370/368b: III. Rondeau Allegro (04:30)
06. Quartetto Bernardini – Romance favorite “Les plus jolis mots” in F Major (08:01)
07. Quartetto Bernardini – Quartet in F Major, Op. 37: I. Allegro (07:08)
08. Quartetto Bernardini – Quartet in F Major, Op. 37: II. Andantino (04:40)
09. Quartetto Bernardini – Quartet in F Major, Op. 37: III. Menuetto Allegro & Trio (03:50)
10. Quartetto Bernardini – Quartet in F Major, Op. 37: IV. Rondo Allegro (06:26)
11. Quartetto Bernardini – Piccolo quartetto in C Major, BI425: I. Romance (02:23)
12. Quartetto Bernardini – Piccolo quartetto in C Major, BI425: II. Allegro (06:28)
13. Quartetto Bernardini – Canone a quatro voci del Sig. Kirnberger in A Minor (03:00)

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