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Classics in the Gardens
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August 5, 2009
By Tonight Reporter
If you find yourself feeling languid on a Sunday morning in Cape Town, music and food set against the background of the greenery and mountain at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens offer a pretty decent cure.
This is the third year that the Chamber Music Breakfast Concerts are running, and they feature a buffet breakfast followed by the concert in the Tea Room early on Sunday mornings after which audiences are free to walk around the gardens.
While four concerts have already passed, the remaining line up runs until August 30 and is really worth checking out.
To celebrate Women's Day on Sunday, the Trois Femmes trio will perform music by female composers with Tertia Visser on piano, Anouk Espi on violin and Cheryl de Havilland on cello.
Expect to hear works by Fanny Mendelssohn as well as Clara Schumann.
On August 16, the The Ixopo Piano Duo, with Francois du Toit and Franklin Larey, will perform compositions for two pianos by Bach, Mozart, Poulenc and Percy Grainger.
On August 23, the Cape Town string ensemble Camerata Tinta Barocca perform, directed by Quintin Crida, with clarinetist Matthew Reid.
Finally, the concerts wrap up on August 30 with The Solid Brass Quintet. This brass ensemble, formed more than 23 years ago by principal players of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, now features Michael Blake (trumpet), Brent Lacey (trumpet), Peter Amon (French horn), Nicholas Green (trombone) and William Haubrich (bass trombone).
Check out the Kirstenbosch Chamber Music Breakfast Concerts until August 30 at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Tickets: R150. Time: 9.30pm to noon. Tel: 021 799 8782.
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