Reviewed by Ewart Shaw, Friday 16th April 2021.
"Come on Bocchers write me a quintet". So spake Simon Martyn-Ellis on the genesis of the work which gave the concert its name, the Guitar Quintet in D major G 448, known as the Boccherini
Fandango, Ensemble Galante invited him and violin/viola player Karina Schmitz to come across and join them for a concert of Spanish-influenced music with guitar. I'd already planned to go to both performances but had I only attended the Friday I'd have been satisfied greatly by the music. As it is I went back again. I'd taken a good look at the housework and decided that good look was all it was going to get.