VARIATIONS (Event 1 – 2025 Summer Baroque Season)

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These two performances are repeats of our award-winning and previously sold-out Variations programme. A popular genre during the baroque period was so-called ‘sets of variations’ or ‘divisions’: Composers often wrote variations and embellishments on songs, folk melodies or hymns. Members of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord) and Lynelle Kenned (soprano) present a programme of expressive sets of variations from the baroque, including music by Corelli, Caccini, Byrd, Philips and Handel. The programme also includes newly composed sets of variations for solo violin by Montreal-based composer and early music specialist Matthias Maute, as well as a piece by South African composer Arthur Feder.

This programme was recently awarded a kykNET Fiësta Award for best classical music production at an arts festival in South Africa in 2023, and was performed to great acclaim at the 2024 Montreal Baroque Music Festival in Canada.

Two performances will be held on 1 February, at 11:00-12:00 and 13:00-14:00 respectively, to accommodate more concertgoers. The performances will take place at the intimate and atmospheric Weltevreden chapel, originally a farmhouse dating from 1790 that was restored by local harpsichord maker William Selway (Bill) Robson. Only 40 tickets per performance available.

With: Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin) and Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)

Please join us for a complimentary glass of wine after each concert.

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This is Event 1 in our 2025 Summer Baroque Season. Click here for a downloadable summary of all season’s events. We are offering a limited number of discounted season passes, which include access to all three events of the season, priced at R750, R680 (pensioners), and R250 (students). Book a season pass here.

The 2025 Summer Baroque Season is generously supported by the Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rupert Musiekstigting and Friends of Orchestral Music.