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Camerata Tinta Barocca, founded by Quentin Crida in July 2004, is a baroque ensemble of string players with harpsichord. (The name is derived from the musicians’ passion for baroque music and red wine…) Our members include some of Cape Town’s finest musicians. Our concerts have met with critical acclaim in the Cape Times and Die Burger, and have been broadcast on Fine Music Radio.
Playing music almost exclusively from the baroque era, we invite soloists to perform with us in oratorios as well as in wind, keyboard, and string concertos.
Gabriele von Durckheim
Our April concert takes place on 25 April at 8pm in St Andrew’s Church. Our soloist is the principal flute of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, Gabriele von Durckheim. She will be playing a concerto by the influential German flute composer and performer Johann Joachim Quantz, the Piccolo Concerto in C major by Vivaldi as well as his flute concerto, La Notte.
Erik Dippenaar
On 13 May at 4pm, in St Norbert’s Priory, Kommetjie, we will be hosting one of our patrons, Erik Dippenaar!
He will be performing organ concerti by some of the greats of the English baroque era. Compositions by GF Handel, John Stanley and Thomas Arne.
This promises to be a memorable occasion on the wonderful baroque type organ built by Bill Robson.
We start off with Biber’s Battalia, which is a musical setting of the build up to, the event, and the aftermath of a battle.
It is a remarkable work by a fascinating composer – Biber asks (in places) for us to use the wood of the bow (as opposed to the hair), what’s known as Bartok pizzicato – but about 250 years before Bartok! – and also that the one bass player puts paper beneath its strings to sound like a marching drum! All of this in 1673 – a truly remarkable piece.
The main work is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Our soloist is the young, rising violin star Vicente Espi. He featured with us last year, playing Tartini and Vivaldi in Kommetjie, to a standing ovation. Vicente is here between the Royal Northern College of Music and Boston, where he’ll continue his post graduate studies from September 2012.
To add to all of this, we will have the nationally (and beyond) recognised voice of radio presenter Rodney Trudgeon to read the four sonnets written by Vivaldi himself, to accompany this evergreen (deservedly so) creation.
Make 2012 a great year, support Vicente Espi, put a face to Rodney Trudgeon, and come to CTB’s Four Seasons!
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