2026 Past Events

The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents a programme of orchestral music by Wilhelmine von Bayreuth (1709-1758), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Élizabeth Jaquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) and George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): four composers linked together in diverse ways. The centrepiece of the programme will be Bach’s moving cantata Ich habe genug, BWV82, with William Berger [...]

Exploring idyllic settings from a late 17th-century perspective, singers of Lutesong Consort (www.lutesong.co.za), and period instrumentalists of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, under the musical direction of Erik Dippenaar, present four works for solo voices and instruments by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704). Likely intended for performance in aristocratic salons and private circles, these works evoke an [...]

The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents Bach in Dialogue, a program of chamber works by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) performed by Annien Shaw (baroque violin), Rosamund Roth (viola da gamba), and Leon Schelhase (harpsichord). In these sonatas and keyboard pieces, each contrapuntal line shares equal importance, creating a clear and expressive musical conversation. The programme ranges [...]