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Get a Handel on it 26 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
Solo recitals of arias from Handel operas and oratorios are common, so it’s a pleasure to hear an album devoted to his duets, particularly when they’re performed as well as they are here by soprano Ro...
We will BaRoque you 26 Aug 2013 | 10:54 pm
Celebrate the arrival of Spring with the inaugural Swellendam House Concerts: BAROQUE SPRING at Schoone Oordt on September 1 at 17.30. Tickets cost - R130 pp,and that includes a glass of wine and cana...
Our Man in the Design Seat 13 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
Having a nice relaxing break from it all, our friend and regular guest Andrea was with visiting this past weekend to have a small break from the preparations that go into Cape Town World Design Capit...
Sated 13 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
A new recording of Satie is always a reason for joy at Augusta. The piano four-hands form has a long and distinguished history with many major symphonic works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky pu...
De Mond 15 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
We were treated to a great day out last week by the guys from SwellenCab, the local Swellendam Town & Country provider of daytrips and general lifts. We highly recommend that when you book your trip t...
What’s in a Name? 7 Jul 2013 | 10:19 pm
We Capetonians are tarnished for our work-aversion malady known as the Cape Coma. But it the shared love for our beautiful mountain that most grounds us. But it has not always been so – the mountain t...
Esona – The VERY One 24 May 2013 | 01:53 am
Let us introduce you to the hand written story of Esona (Xhosa for “The very One”). .. Esona is a boutique winery, producing limited release wine from single vineyards nestled beside the Breede River...
Summertime…in Vein 25 Mar 2013 | 10:14 pm
It’s a sure sign of the changing seasons when the strains of Summertime sound a little more melancholy than usual and you wistfully think of days past. AND if the strains are from the new interpretati...
Bains Cape Mountain Whisky is the best 24 Mar 2013 | 03:17 pm
Take that whisky snobs. Bains Cape Mountain Whisky, distilled in Wellington, has won the award for Best Grain Whisky in the world for 2013 , as awarded by Whiskey Magazine. Of course we have been sing...
Flammkuchen but not quite 24 Mar 2013 | 02:54 pm
It is always a treat when someone stays with us, bringing with them a view on a product or cultural items which hitherto had been unknown to us. When Suzanne Diehm and Tobi Mast checked in, little wou...
