CTCS SEPTEMBER & BEYOND 2023
Dear Music Lovers

A highlight on our calendar is the Cape Town Baroque Festival which returns to the Baxter this coming Saturday for our annual collaboration, and this year we go to Spain to sample some Spanish Salads with the Lutesong Consort.A Spanish Salad – Vocal polyphony from Renaissance Spain’ .
The aptly named genre of ensaladas (literally: salads) flourished for the largest part of the 16th century in Spain, but only ten survive today. These highly entertaining religious allegories tells of redemption from various natural disasters, and contain a mix of references to popular songs, chant and onomatopoeic nonsense syllables in a variety of metres. The ensaladas developed from the sacred villancico tradition: the singing of songs in the vernacular at matins in chapels and cathedrals on feast days, or as theatrical performance spectacles before the Mass.

Featuring Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Lente Louw (mezzo-soprano), Jason Atherton (tenor), Keaton Manwaring (bass), and an ensemble of period instruments led by Erik Dippenaar.

The concert takes place in the Baxter Concert Hall at 11am on Saturday 23 September. 

Tickets are still available from Webtickets https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/Event.aspx?itemid=1532138684

For your diary our next concert will follow soon after on 7 October with the multi talented Gareth Lubbe demonstrating his skills on both violin and viola with pianist Luis Magalhaes. The longtime friends will present a programme – Between Friends, focussing on the works and friendships of Robert and Clara Schumann and Brahms.  Then our final concert of the year is on 18 November with violinist Yevgeny Kutik. He will be joining forces with pianist Francois du Toit and cellist David Pinoit for works by Achron, Prokofiev and Brahms.  Both concerts take place in the Baxter Concert Hall at 11am.

In addition to our regular series we will also be presenting an “Extra” concert on 18th October with the Dante Quartet visiting from the UK – featuring South Africans Zoe Beyers and Ian Watson.  Tickets for this concert are at https://qkt.io/DanteCT and the concert takes place at St Andrews Presbyterian Church in Greenpoint. More details are available on our website – www.ctconcerts.co.za.

We look forward to seeing you this coming weekend and list below further concerts in the Baroque Festival.

Kind regards

Louise Howlett
Cape Town Concert Series
084 682 1337
CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS:
SUNDAY 24 SEPTEMBER, EVENT 3: BILL ROBSON’s 80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
WELTEVREDEN, ORANJE ROAD, NOORDHOEKThe 2023 Cape Town Baroque Festival is celebrating the 80th birthday of local harpsichord and organ builder William Selway (Bill) Robson with a series of short concerts in the chapel, originally a farmhouse dating from 1790, that he restored during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as tours through his workshop. The concerts will be performed on historical keyboard instruments built by Robson.

With: Erik Dippenaar, Anna Fusek, Gianluca Geremia and Dale de Windt (harpsichord, organ, spinet, virginals)

Date: Sunday, 24 September
Session 1: Concert at 14.00 – 14.45 and workshop tour at 15.00 – 15.30
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Session 2: Concert at 15.30 – 16.15 and workshop tour at 16.30 – 17.00

Venue: Weltevreden, Oranje Road, Noordhoek (with complimentary glass of wine and birthday cake!)

WEDNESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER, EVENT 5: BRIEF TALES FOR TWO
19h00 6 SPIN STREET GALLERY, CAPE TOWN
The 2023 Cape Town Baroque Festival presents Anna Fusek (baroque violin, recorder, spinetta) and Gianluca Geremia (theorbo, guitar, melodica) in an intimate chamber concert based on a baroque aesthetic, but sometimes also venturing further afield. Do not miss the opportunity to hear these two international award-winning multi-instrumentalists live!

With: Anna Fusek (baroque violin, recorder, spinetta) and Gianluca Geremia (theorbo, guitar, melodica)

Date: Wednesday, 27 September, Time: 19:00
Venue: 6 Spin Street, Cape Town

SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER, Event 6: DOUBLE TROUBLE FESTIVAL FINALE!
16h00 ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH, CAPE TOWN

The Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents the Festival Finale for the 2023 Baroque Festival consisting of several exciting double concerti, focussing on the dynamic dialogue between two solo instruments and orchestra, and how different composers used this for expressive and dramatic purposes. The concert will be preceded by a talk by Anna Stoddard of FMR’s ‘Baroque Bon Bons’.

Concerti by Vivaldi, Telemann and Bach

With: Anna Fusek (recorder and baroque violin), Annien Shaw (baroque violin), Ingo Müller (baroque oboe), Rosamund Ender (viola da gamba) and the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra

Date: Sunday, 1 October, Time: 16:00, pre-concert talk at 15:15
Venue: St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant