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The Brabantsch Muzyk Collegie Baroque Orchestra endeavours to offer baroque and early classical music as it would have sounded at the time. The Orchestra is comprised of professional musicians, all of whom play either authentic instruments or reproductions.
These instruments - in combination with the modified manner in which they are played, as they would have been played by musicians at the time - are responsible for much of the essence of music from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. Consequently this combination enables the Orchestra to do full justice to the timbre the composers envisaged when they wrote the music.
The Orchestra was founded in 1989, following an initiative taken by a number of musicians in the Province of Brabant. The name of the ensemble originates from historical archives; during the 18th Century ensembles under this name were active in the Province of Brabant.
The Orchestra provides both orchestral performances and choral accompaniments in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The Orchestra's repertoire includes the major choral works by Monteverdi, Bach, Händel and Mozart - although this certainly does not imply that the Orchestra shuns less well-known compositions.
For example, the Orchestra has released a cd of baroque music by composers from the Province of Brabant (Brabantse Barokmuziek), including instrumental and vocal works from Hollanders, Verrijt and Benedictus (Buns) a Sancto Josepho, all composers who were active in the Province in the 17th Century.