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 [...]
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' [...]
Event 3: Venice, Vivaldi and the Ospedale della Pietà
South African Sendinggestigmuseum 40 Long Street, Cape Town, South AfricaThe Ospedale della Pietà was an orphanage-convent in Venice that was one of four so-called “Ospedali Grandi” (charitable hospices, which provided a wide range of services for the needy of Venice). In these institutions, music played an important part in the education of the inhabitants (all girls in the case of the Ospedale della Pietà). By the 18th century, [...]
Narratives (Cape Town Baroque Trio at Woordfees)
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. [...]
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 [...]