Holland Baroque Society A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

For many years the ‘mecca’ of historically informed performance practice has been the Netherlands, the country where for several decades early music has not been a subculture but rather part of the mainstream, from music teaching to concerts. Formed by four musicians in 2005, the Holland Baroque Society give around 60 concerts a year and are ranked as one of the most innovative of early music formations. The ensemble is totally at home in the music of the 17–18th centuries and they have worked together with greats of early music such as Emma Kirkby, Rachel Podger, Alexis Kossenko and Matthew Halls. Several of their undertakings have caused an outcry among more conservative circles. One such was their highly popular album ‘Old, New & Blue’ laid down in partnership with jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans. Others were recitals staged this spring, during which they lined up the music of Jacques Brel and Jean-Philippe Rameau side by side. They arrive at the Liszt Academy with a pure Baroque programme, overseen this time around by the 30-year-old Italian keyboard phenomenon Francesco Corti, the regular partner of Mark Minkowski and Jordi Savall. Their performance of four of the Brandenburg Concertos will be all you need to convince you that Bach was far from being a dour, bewigged cantor of the 18th century but a composer whose music can evince feelings in us that reflect the tiniest vibrations of our everyday lives.