A Tribute to Telemann (2025 Cape Town Baroque Festival - EVENT 5) - with a pre-concert talk by Anna Stoddard
2025-09-27 19:00 - 20:30 (Africa/Johannesburg) | St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant
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 Annien Shaw (baroque violins) and David Cyster (chalumeau). A high point in the programme will be the young South African clarinettist David Cyster, who recently started learning the chalumeau (the historical version of the modern clarinet), performing in a double concerto for two chalumeaux with Erik Bosgraaf, who will direct the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra in this programme of double concerti and orchestral works by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767). You can view the full programme for this concert here.
Date: Saturday, 27 September
Time: 19:00-20:30 (with a pre-concert talk by Anna Stoddard at 18:00). Please also join us for a complimentary glass of wine after the concert.
Venue: St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant
Tickets: R280 (regular), R240 (pensioners), R100 (learners/students)
Enquiries can be directed to info@ctbaroque.co.za.
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This is Event 5 in our 2025 Cape Town Baroque Festival. Click here for a downloadable summary of all the festival events. We are offering a limited number of discounted festival passes, which include access to all fourfestival concerts (i.e., excluding Event 1, which is an educational event). Book a festival pass here.
The 2025 Cape Town Baroque Festival is generously supported by the Rupert Musiekstigting, Bill van Rensburg, the RHL Foundation, and the Cape Town Theatre Trust.

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Have you heard of the chalumeau before? Here is a short video of Erik Bosgraaf playing Telemann on the alto chalumeau (Gigue from the Suite in F major for alto chalumeau, tenor chalumeau and two viola da gambas TWV 44:6):

Salsa Baroque – 17th and 18th century music from Latin America and Spain (Thu, 20 Nov)
2025-11-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Baxter Concert Hall, Baxter Concert Hall, Rondebosch
The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, in collaboration with the Cape Town Concert Series and singers of Lutesong Consort, invites you on a dazzling journey where baroque music from the Old World meets the vibrant rhythms of the New World. Salsa Baroque celebrates the fusion of European polyphony with the infectious dances of Latin America, born from the meeting of Spanish, African, and indigenous traditions. From the lively chaconas and jácaras of Spain to the spirited villancicos of Mexico and Bolivia, this program bursts with energy, colour, and rhythmic vitality. The programme will be directed by Canadian recorder and baroque flute virtuoso, Matthias Maute, and it will also feature the African premiere of his newly created recorder concerto, using material by Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783), with Maute as soloist.
Cape Town Baroque Orchestra: Annien Shaw, Ralitza Macheva (baroque violins), Emile de Roubaix (baroque viola), Rosamund Roth (viol), Henrike Kovats (baroque double bass), Uwe Grosser (baroque guitar), Lilavan Gangen (percussion) and Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord/organ).
Lutesong Consort: Vasti Zeeman-Knoesen (soprano), Lente Louw (alto, Lutesong Consort Artistic Director), Jason Atherton (tenor) and Keaton Manwaring (bass).
Date: Thursday, 20 November 2025
Time: 19:00
Venue: Baxter Concert Hall, Rosebank
Tickets: R280 (regular), R230 (pensioners), R100 (learners/students), available on Webtickets.
Enquiries can be directed to info@ctconcerts.co.za.
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