The Road to the Symphony (2026 Cape Town Baroque Festival – EVENT 3)

Since 2015, the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra (CTBO) has presented all of its annual concerts on original baroque instruments (or copies of baroque instruments). Currently, the CTBO is the only ensemble in South Africa that plays all of its annual orchestral concerts on instruments appropriate to the baroque era.

For the ‘The Road to the Symphony’ programme, the CTBO will expand their repertoire, and sonic horisons, into early Classical-style symphonies from the 1760´s and 1770´s, by CPE Bach (1714-1788), Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and a 17-year old WA Mozart (1756-1791), all presented on period-appropriate instruments. These early Classical works will be put in context of the late baroque by presenting the concerto for recorder and flute from 1740 by GP Telemann (1681-1767) with Erik Bosgraaf (recorder) and Marion Treupel-Franck (traverso) as soloists.

The Dutch recorder player and conductor, Erik Bosgraaf, will, in a third collaboration with the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, conduct this concert. Bosgraaf has recently been appointed as the Artistic Director of The London International Festival of Early Music, and has a long-standing collaboration with the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra as guest conductor. Read more about Bosgraaf here: https://www.erikbosgraaf.com/

Do not miss this ground-breaking project of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra!

With: The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, Erik Bosgraaf (conductor/recorder) and Marion Treupel-Franck (traverso) in collaboration with the Cape Town Concert Series.

Date: Saturday, 26 September
Time: 11:00-11:15
Programme duration: 75 mins
Venue: Baxter Concert Hall
Tickets: R280, R250 (pensioners), R100 (scholars/students)

Enquiries can be directed to [email protected].

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This is Event 3 in our 2026 Cape Town Baroque Festival. Click here for a downloadable summary of all the festival events. We are offering a limited number of discounted festival passes, which include access to all four festival concerts (i.e., excluding Event 1, which is an educational event). Book a festival pass here.

The 2026 Cape Town Baroque Festival is generously supported by the Rupert Musiekstigting, the Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra, Bill van Rensburg, and Gillian Lindner.