As part of Camerata Tinta Barocca’s education programme, we present our annual Schools’ Baroque Festival Concert, where high school learners from the Greater Cape Town area get the opportunity to work alongside CTB musicians. A series of workshops lead up to this concert, where the talent and skills of the next generation of Baroque players [...]

In this concert Camerata Tinta Barocca will feature award-winning Canadian early music specialist Matthias Maute as recorder soloist. Maute is the Artistic Director of the Montreal-based ‘Ensemble Caprice’ and the Co-Artistic Director of the Montreal Baroque Festival (see full biography below). The programme will feature works by Vivaldi and Zipoli, amongst others. Here’s a short [...]

Camerata Tinta Barocca (CTB) presents a concert of chamber music from the Baroque, featuring Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Ralitza Macheva and Annien Shaw (baroque violins), Joshua Frank (recorder), Bridget Rennie-Salonen (baroque flute), Uwe Grosser (theorbo), and directed from the harpsichord by Erik Dippenaar. The programme explores the possibilities of juxtaposing movements from works by a diversity [...]

The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents its first live orchestral concert since March 2020 on Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at their Cape Town home venue, St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in De Waterkant. The concert will feature instrumental repertoire by Corelli, Handel, Purcell and De Lalande. Soprano Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi will appear as soloist in arias by [...]

The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents its first live orchestral concert since March 2020 on Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at their Cape Town home venue, St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in De Waterkant. The concert will feature instrumental repertoire by Corelli, Handel, Purcell and De Lalande. Soprano Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi will appear as soloist in arias by [...]

The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra in collaboration with Ensemble Caprice from Montréal, Canada, present Salsa Baroque, an exciting programme of 17th and 18th century music from Latin America and Spain. During this time period, the musical dialogue between the Old and New Worlds produced extraordinary results. The fascinating blend of European polyphony and Latin American [...]

The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, South Africa’s leading period instrument orchestra, presents an exciting programme of vocal music from some of the most popular 18th century operas, celebrating the virtuosity and broad range of expressions that caused singers of the Baroque period to reach the same level of celebrity as modern-day sport stars. This programme [...]

Celebrating Handel: The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra with Lynelle Kenned (soprano) The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents an exciting programme of vocal and instrumental repertoire, celebrating the expressiveness and vitality of the music of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759). The centrepiece of the programme is Handel’s Gloria, sung by Lynelle Kenned. This composition, which was probably [...]

Celebrating Handel: The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra with Lynelle Kenned (soprano) The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents an exciting programme of vocal and instrumental repertoire, celebrating the expressiveness and vitality of the music of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759). The centrepiece of the programme is Handel’s Gloria, sung by Lynelle Kenned. This composition, which was probably [...]

Antonio Vivaldi's cycle of descriptive violin concertos, “The Four Seasons”, counts among the most famous music ever devised. However, another cycle of four recorder concertos with descriptive titles by the same composer has remained in (relative) obscurity, namely: Concerto La Francia (France) Concerto La Spagna (Spain) Concerto L'Inghilterro (England) Concerto Il Gran Mogol (India) The [...]