Midtown Concerts • Boreas Quartett Bremen
Il Flauto Magico
Jin-Ju Baek, Elisabeth Champollion, Julia Fritz & Luise Manske ~ recorders
A fascinating choice of recorder music from Medieval to modern times. Highlights are works by Johann Sebastian Bach, William Byrd and Hans Leo Haßler as well as pieces by the contemporary composer Piet Swerts. An hour full of contrasts: a gamut of instruments in a flashing presentation of magical consort sound.
Boreas, god of the north wind, gave the recorder quartet its name: wind, air, and breath bring the recorders to resound. The Boreas Quartett Bremen plays music from the heyday of the consort. A performance with BQB immerses you in the rich full sound of the consort while music of the 20th and 21st centuries adds a contemporary dimension. The musicians play over 40 flutes of different sizes and construction including a twelve-part Renaissance consort. Jin-Ju Baek, Elisabeth Champollion, Julia Fritz and Luise Manske studied at the Akademie für Alte Musik in Bremen. The quartet has played concerts in Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, South Korea, and at the International Recorder Festival in Taiwan.
