2024 Cape Town Baroque Festival (CTBF)
Various venues across Cape Town2024 Cape Town Baroque Festival REVELATIONS! The annual Cape Town Baroque Festival, presented by the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, will take place from 21 to 24 September 2024. The programming of the 2024 Cape Town Baroque Festival – titled Revelations! – revolves around the idea of concealing and revealing, which permeates the individual programmes on [...]
Event 1: Variations
UCT Irma Stern Museum 21 Cecil Road, RosebankA popular genre during the baroque period was so-called ‘sets of variations’ or ‘divisions’: Composers often composed 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, [...]