This album of works by Bartolomeo Bernardi by the I Solisti Ambrosiani ensemble provides us with recordings of unreleased material from this little-known Italian composer and violinist.

As a violinist, Bartolomeo Bernardi (c.1660-1732) was a pupil of Giuseppe Torelli, first worked in Bologna and Mantua and then moved to Copenhagen, where he first worked as “compositore e sonatore di violino” (“composer and violin player”) and later as Kappellmeister at the court of the King of Denmark and Norway. Bernardi’s compositional talent is witnessed not only in the compositional style of his Violin Sonatas but also through his title of “Philharmonic Fellow”, namely a member of the most important Italian Music Academy of his epoch: the prestigious Bologna Musician Union.

I Solisti Ambrosiani Baroque Ensemble is an Italian ensemble specialised in the ancient repertoire and in the philological performance on original instruments, founded in 2008 by the soprano Tullia Pedersoli and the violinist Davide Belosio. The group finds its own style in the temperament of the individual components and in the flexibility of the training – from the duo to the small chamber orchestra.