2024 General Concerts
Narratives (Cape Town Baroque Trio at Klein Karoo Klassique)
Oudtshoorn Civic Centre / Burgersentrum Vrede Street, OudtshoornThe Cape Town Baroque Trio explores various methods of instrumental narration from the baroque era. The baroque practices of affect, rhetoric, allegory and symbolism are demonstrated in the programme, where seasoned baroque instrumentalists Annien Shaw (baroque violin), Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin) and Rosamund Ender (viola da gamba) perform works by Corelli, Biber, Telemann, and Vivaldi. [...]
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 [...]
Messiah study day
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantIn addition to the two performances of Handel's Messiah on 28 and 30 November in Cape Town and Hermanus respectively, we are also presenting a Messiah study day on Sunday, 24 November, 12:00-15:00 at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant. The study day will include a historical background to Messiah, demonstrations by CTBO instrumentalists and Lutesong Consort singers about aspects of period performance, a background to the [...]
Handel’s ‘Messiah’ – Cape Town
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantAfter the first performances of Messiah in Dublin in 1742, Handel performed the oratorio several times more during his lifetime. For each of these performances, he adjusted the work according to the singers and instrumentalists available to him - a common practice during the baroque period. Following the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra’s (CTBO) reconstruction of the first [...]
Handel’s ‘Messiah’ – Hermanus
Dutch Reformed Church, Hermanus Church st, HermanusAfter the first performances of Messiah in Dublin in 1742, Handel performed the oratorio several times more during his lifetime. For each of these performances, he adjusted the work according to the singers and instrumentalists available to him - a common practice during the baroque period. Following the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra’s (CTBO) reconstruction of the [...]