Camerata Tinta Barocca (CTB) presents a concert of chamber music from the Baroque, featuring Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Ralitza Macheva and Annien Shaw (baroque violins), Joshua Frank (recorder), Bridget Rennie-Salonen (baroque flute), Uwe Grosser (theorbo), and directed from the harpsichord by Erik Dippenaar.

The programme explores the possibilities of juxtaposing movements from works by a diversity of composers and from different genres, by grouping them together in suites or partitas, a common practice during the Baroque period.

The programme includes music by Bach, Barsanti, Geminiani, Handel, Hotteterre and Merula, and is performed on period instruments by members of CTB.

Please keep in mind that for all live events current restrictions allow for 100 audience members in the Endler Hall and all safety protocols outlined by the University will be strictly followed. The safety of our students, staff and patrons is our first priority.

The concert will take place on Saturday 15 May at 7pm. Tickets for R150 (regular) and R120 (pensioners and students) are available now through Computicket and at the door one hour before the show. Credit card facilities and SnapScan payments will be possible. For more information contact Fiona Grayer at concerts@sun.ac.za or 021 808 2358.

 

Programme

Tarquinio Merula (1595–1665)        

Ciaccona                                                                                                        

Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin), Joshua Frank (recorder), Uwe Grosser (theorbo), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)

 

FOLK SUITE

Anon                                                                                                              

The bush aboon tranquair

Annien Shaw (baroque violin)

 

Francesco Barsanti (1690–1775)                                                                  

The bush aboon tranquair from A Collection of Old Scots Tunes (1742)

Joshua Frank (recorder), Uwe Grosser (theorbo), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)

 

Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762)                                                               

The bush aboon tranquair from A treatise of good taste in the Art of Musick (1749)

Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin), Annien Shaw (baroque violin), Uwe Grosser (theorbo), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)

 

HANDEL SUITE

George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)

Recorder Sonata in D minor, HWV 367a

Largo – Vivace

Joshua Frank (recorder), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Cantata: Pensieri notturni di Filli (1707)

 

Recitativo: Nel dolce dell’oblio benché riposi la mia Filli adorata veglia coi pensier suoi e in quella quiete Amor non cessa mai con varie forme la sua pace turbar mentr’ella dorme. Aria: Giacché il sonno a lei dipinge la sembianza del suo bene, nella quiete ne pur finge d’abbracciar le sue catene. Recitativo: Così fida ella vive al cuor che adora e nell’ombre respira la luce di quel sol per cui sospira. Aria: Ha l’inganno il suo diletto se i pensier mossi d’affetto stiman ver ciò che non sanno. Ma se poi si risveglia un tal errore il pensier ridice a noi ha l’inganno il suo dolore.

Recitative: In the sweetness of slumber, although she is sleeping, my beloved Phyllis’ thoughts are waking and in the stillness Cupid never ceases to disturb her peace in many different ways while she sleeps. Aria: Since sleep deceives her with the illusion of her lover’s image, she imagines, in the stillness, that she is embracing his chains. Recitative: Thus she remains faithful to the beloved heart and in the shade she breathes the sunlight that she loves so dearly. Aria: The deceiption enjoys it when thoughts are overwhealmed by feelings and believe the dream to be true. But when thoughts, on waking, reveal the error then the deceiption feels its pain. Translation: J. Whybrow

 

Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Joshua Frank (recorder), Uwe Grosser (theorbo), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)

 

PASTORAL SUITE

Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674–1763)     

Pourquoy, doux rossignol: Tendrement from Airs et brunettes (1723)

Bridget Rennie-Salonen (baroque flute), Uwe Grosser (theorbo)

 

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)

Sonata nr 4 in G major, TWV41:G1 from Six sonates à violon seul, accompagné par le clavessin (1715)

Largo – Allegro

Annien Shaw (baroque violin), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)

 

François Couperin (1668–1733)                                                                                

Le Rossignol en Amour

Bridget Rennie-Salonen (baroque flute), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)

 

BACH SUITE

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Sarabande from the French Suite nr. 5 in G major, BWV816

from the Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach (1725)

 

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690–1749)

Bist du bei Mir, BWV508

from the Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach (1725)

Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord), Uwe Grosser (theorbo)

 

HANDEL OPERA SUITE

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)

The Ouverture to Rinaldo from Handel’s Sixty Overtures from all his Operas and Oratorios Set for the Harpsichord or Organ (J. Walsh, ca. 1750)

Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)

 

Trio sonata nr. 4 in F major, op 2, HWV 389 (London, 1733)

Larghetto – Allegro

Bridget Rennie-Salonen (baroque flute), Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin), Uwe Grosser (theorbo), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord)

 

Lascia ch’io pianga from Songs in the Opera of Rinaldo (John Walsh, 1711)

Lascia ch’io pianga                            Allow that I weep over
mia cruda sorte,                                 my cruel fate,
e che sospiri                                        and that I may sigh
la libertà.                                             for the freedom.

Il duolo infranga                                Let my sadness shatter
queste ritorte                                      these chains
de’ miei martiri                                  of my suffering,
sol per pietà.                                       if only out of pity.

Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord), Uwe Grosser (theorbo)