The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra with Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi (soprano) – 20:00
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantThe 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 [...]
Salsa Baroque
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantThe 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 [...]
Baroque Opera Gala Concert
South African Slave Church Museum, Cape Town 40 Long Street, Cape Town, South AfricaThe 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) – Greyton Genadendal Classics for All – 22 May
Moravian Church, Genadendal Genadendal, 7234, Genadendal, Western Cape, South AfricaCelebrating 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) – Cape Town performance – 25 May
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantCelebrating 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 [...]
The Four Nations – Cape Town Baroque Orchestra with Matthias Maute (recorder/traverso)
South African Sendinggestigmuseum 40 Long Street, Cape Town, South AfricaAntonio 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 [...]
Angels and Shepherds: A German Baroque Christmas
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantThe Cape Town Baroque Orchestra in collaboration with the Lutesong Consort will present a concert of festive Christmas music by German Baroque composers for 8 solo voices and chamber orchestra. The contrast between the immense significance of the Incarnation and its humble pastoral setting has always been a rich source of inspiration for artists and [...]
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. [...]
Event 1: Variations
UCT Irma Stern Museum 21 Cecil Road, Rosebank, Western Cape, South AfricaA 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, [...]
Event 2: Les Arts Florissants
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantLutesong Consort presents a concert performance of the French allegorical mini-opera Les arts florissants by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704). In this hòmage to Louis XIV (self-styled arts patron, warlord and ultimate monarch), 'the arts' are the characters: 'La Musique' (Music), 'La Poèsie' (Poetry), 'La Peinture' (Painting) and 'L'Architecture' (Architecture) resolve a dispute between 'La Paix' (Peace) and 'La Discord' [...]