An evening of beautiful melody from the Austrian Capella Concertante ensemble will start the year off for the Grahamstown Music Society on Wednesday 15 February as part of their South African tour.
An evening of beautiful melody from the Austrian Capella Concertante ensemble will start the year off for the Grahamstown Music Society on Wednesday 15 February as part of their South African tour.
This lively group began as a woodwind quintet in 1985 and along with the standard classical quintet literature, they place great emphasis on promoting traditional Viennese music and more recent 20th-century compositions.
Their flexible programmes deliberately range in idiom in order to shed the austere mantle of ‘highbrow music’. They happily venture into areas that one would not expect from this otherwise quite traditional grouping of instrumental timbres.
Now with two extras, a soprano and a double bass player, the ensemble caters for all tastes at the highest level, while keeping its own basic musical identity.
For their performance in Grahamstown, this means everything from Mozart to Lehar. The concert will be in the St Andrew’s Drill Hall and starts at 7.30pm.
Tickets cost R80 (R60 for pensioners and R40 for tertiary students) are available at the door from 7pm. School pupils in uniform and Grahamstown Music Society members are admitted free.
