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Cape Philharmonic Oratorio Festival

Venue: Groote Kerk, Cape Town. Tel: (021) 421 7695.
Time: 4:00pm
Price: R80
Performances: 30 Mar, 6 & 13 Apr 2008
Genre: Classical

The Cape Philharmonic Orchestra is presenting an oratorio festival from 30 March to 13 April in the Groote Kerk in Cape Town. Well-known local choirs and soloists will perform together with the orchestra during a festival consisting of three concerts on Sunday afternoons at 16:00.

On Sunday 30 March the New Apostolic Church Choir and soloists Golda Schultz (soprano), Sipho Fubesi (tenor) and Musawenkosi Ngqungwana (bass baritone) perform Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and his oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives  Op. 85 under Scottish conductor Iain Sutherland.

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The second concert is on Sunday 6 April, when the Cape Town Symphony Choir, organist Grant Brassler and soloists Pretty Yende (soprano) and Thato Mothona (bass baritone) perform under conductor Alexander Fokkens. The programme for that afternoon’s concert include Guilmant’s Symphony No.1 (”Organ” symphony) and Faure’s Requiem Op.48 (for full orchestra).

The festival concludes with a performance of Mozart’s Requiem on Sunday 13 April and features the St. George's Singers and Canticum Novum together with soloists Hanneli Rupert (mezzo-soprano), Arthur Swan (tenor), Conroy Scott (bass baritone), Runette Botha  (soprano) under conductor Barry Smith.

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