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Adelaide Chamber Singers’ Christmas-themed ‘Silver and Gold’ concert was one of their most ambitious efforts, and with not one but two choirs plus an orchestra, it paid off handsomely.
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 d...