2025 CTBF

Recorder masterclasses with Erik Bosgraaf, inspiring young recorder players at the beginning of their careers to bloom into professional musicians! Bosgraaf will commence the Symposium with a lecture presentation titled Adriana van den Bergh – a 17th-century recorder prodigy. Please also join us for complimentary mid-morning refreshments. The 19th annual Recorder Symposium is proudly presented in collaboration with the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, Stellenbosch [...]

Erik Bosgraaf (recorder) and Zefira Valova (baroque violin) present small-scale works for two instruments in the intimate and historic setting of Rust en Vreugd. You can learn more about this special venue here. The programme consists of solos and duos for recorder and violin by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767). This concert is presented in collaboration [...]

A programme focusing on Tudor vocal music, ranging from miniature works for two voices up to the monumental 40-voiced motet Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis (1505–1585), presented by Lutesong Consort (Artistic Director: Lente Louw) and True Voices, and conducted by Patrick Cordery. Apart from Tallis’s Spem in alium, this concert will feature contemporary works [...]

The Cape Town Baroque Trio presents a programme of music by the early 18th-century English female composer Mrs Philarmonica, whose actual identity remains unknown up to this day. There are only two extant collections of music composed by her, both published under the pseudonym ‘Mrs Philarmonica’. In this programme, compiled by Annien Shaw and consisting [...]

In this programme, we celebrate the great skill and diversity of the expressive styles found in the orchestral works of Georg Telemann. The 2025 Cape Town Baroque Festival’s international visiting baroque specialists, Zefira Valova (baroque violin) and Erik Bosgraaf (recorder, chalumeau, harpsichord), will perform as soloists in this concert alongside local players Ralitza Macheva and [...]