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Sacred Music (17th Century) (A German Passion - 17th Century Music for the Time of Lent and Easter) (Margaretha Consort, Broekroelofs)
The Hanseatic wealth of North Germany in the 17th century is reflected in its magnificent cathedrals, and the enormous grandeur of its church music was composed to fill the rich acoustics of these spaces. This programme presents a wide range of Easter music that displays the wealth of inventiveness in this period, enhancing the texts and finding different colours and surprising effects through improvisation and adaptation of the manuscripts. This early music is brought vividly to life by the acclaimed Margaretha Consort.
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The early music ensemble Margaretha Consort, based in the Netherlands, was founded in 2009 by Marit Broekroelofs. It is a skilled and specialised team where knowledge, musicality and congeniality go hand in hand. The voices are complementary, they blend well in the tutti but remain audible separately. There is room for every member of the group to bring in personal qualities and expertise. Other strong sides of the ensemble are the excellent artistic quality, diverse and impressive programmes, a good sense of history and dramaturgy and a catchy and intensive joy while playing together.
Sietze de Vries is an internationally active concert organist and church musician. During and after his graduation he won many prizes at various national and international organ competitions, with as a final highlight the first prize at the Haarlem International Organ Improvisation Competition in 2002. Since then, he has made a name for himself as an improviser, playing in all styles from Renaissance to contemporary.
Baroque cellist and violist Marit Broekroelofs (1968) studied at the Schumann Akademie and ArtEZ conservatory in Zwolle (Netherlands). Already during her studies she fully dedicated herself to Early Music. Besides being a teacher she is a freelance musician and works thoughout the Netherlands.
As artistic director of the Margaretha Consort she has very interesting views about performing music of the 17th century. She is convinced that, in order to perform this music well, one needs to project oneself into the mind of the musician and human being of that time. This means that one has to be skilled in the fields of Latin, history, literature, philosophy, rhetoric and of course polyphony. For how can music better be understood and performed than by knowing what the 17th century man lived for, thought and went through? Only then one can (approximately) understand and express how this music was written.
With great delicacy Marit Broekroelofs knows how to place sound and message in a balanced perspective. She leads the musicians as concert master, has a good overview and a natural authority, knowing very well how to deal with everyone’s responsibility and expertise. She presents her ideas to the group and then leaves creating the color or sound image to the musicians.
