Cape Town Baroque Festival Event 1: New Music for Old Instruments
Fri Sep 22, 19:30 - Fri Sep 22, 21:30
Endler Hall
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NEW MUSIC FOR OLD INSTRUMENTS
The 2023 Cape Town Baroque Festival, in collaboration with the South African Composers’ Symposium, presents an exciting programme of new music for baroque instruments. The programme includes sets of variations for baroque violin on baroque themes composed by Matthias Maute in 2021, a piece titled The Siege of Chester (1997) for virginals in a quarter comma meantone tuning by William Mival, and a work composed in 2007 for recorder and percussion by Australian composer Racheal Cogan.
Two newly composed works by Arthur Feder and Antoni Schonken will form the centrepieces of this programme.
With: Annien Shaw and Ralitza Macheva (baroque violins), Rosamund Ender (viola da gamba), Caroline Walters (recorder), Emilio February (percussion), and Erik Dippenaar (virginals, harpsichord)
Date: Friday, 22 September
Time: 19.30
Venue: Endler Hall, Neethling Street, Stellenbosch
Tickets: R150 and R50 (students)