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THE CAPE TOWN BAROQUE ORCHESTRA IN OUDTSHOORN
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Dear supporter of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra
In little under a week, the CTBO will present two special programmes as part of the 2024 Klein Karoo Klassique festival in Oudtshoorn. Please find details of these concerts below. Join us, and make a weekend of it! For the complete festival programme visit: https://klassique.co.za/program/
At the bottom of this mail you will also find the link to another winter warmer: Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi singing an aria from Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona.
MEMBERS OF THE CTBO AT THE KLEIN KAROO KLASSIQUE FESTIVAL IN OUDTSHOORN - AUGUST
'Variations'
Friday, 4 August, 16:30, NG Kerk Park, Oudtshoorn
With: Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin) and Erik Dippenaar (organ and
harpsichord)
A popular genre during the Baroque period was so-called “sets of variations” or “divisions”: Composers wrote variations and embellishments on folk melodies or hymns. Erik Dippenaar and Ralitza Macheva present a programme of virtuoso sets of variations from the Baroque, including music by Corelli and Buxtehude. The programme also includes a collection of newly composed sets of variations for solo violin, in a Baroque style, by Montreal-based composer and early music specialist Matthias Maute, as well as an improvised set of variations on the organ by Dippenaar.
Tickets and more details here:
https://klassique.co.za/variations/
'Handel's Roman Cantatas'
Sunday, 6 August, 14:00, Oudtshoorn Civic Centre
With: Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi (soprano), Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin), Rosamund Ender (baroque cello, viola da gamba), Dale de Windt (chamber organ) and Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord, Director)
During the 17th century – in parallel with the development of the new forms of opera and oratorio – a form of secular vocal composition developed which came to be called the cantata. Unlike opera and oratorio, the Italian cantata in the 17th century was usually intended for domestic performance. By the beginning of the 18th century, cantatas had developed into self-contained dramatic scenes – almost mini operas.
Especially in Rome, in times when the church banned opera performances, these cantatas served as a substitute dramatic outlet for composers and singers. During Handel’s years of study in Italy in the first decade of the 18th century, he composed a great number of Italian cantatas. Following their award-winning Handel at Home programme, members of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, alongside sopranos Lynelle Kenned and Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi, present a selection of these dramatic and expressive gems. The recital is followed by a free 45-minute discussion with artists upstairs in the Banqueting Hall.
Tickets and more details here:
https://klassique.co.za/handels-roman-cantatas/
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WINTER WARMER
Soprano Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi joins the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra in the aria 'Stizzoso, mio Stizzoso' from Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona (1733). This was recorded in one of our regular concert venues, the Slave Church Museum in Long Street, Cape Town. Hlengiwe will join members of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra in the 'Handel's Roman Cantatas' programme on Sunday, 6 August.
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