Summary
ONE of the treasures of the annual Perth Festival is its series of morning concerts: intimate little events with no pretension to rival the morning concert series at the Edinburgh Festival. Not that the Perth events - appropriately called coffee concerts - are modest in their aspirations. This morning, the wind quintet from the Berlin Philharmonic will be there; and on Tuesday the peerless Palladian Ensemble, one of the world's most distinctive and distinguished early music groups, showed that the stunning new Concert Hall is as hospitable to the discreet intimacies of baroque chamber music as it is to the grand gestures of the symphony.
Two trio sonatas by Bach framed the concert, played with characteristically soft yet gleaming transparency, while the innards of the programme contained a highly effective series of arrangements - for recorder, violin, guitar and viola da gamba - of Bach's Chorale Preludes and a deliciously expressive set of pieces by Marin Marais.See the full content of this document
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Music : Palladian Ensemble, Perth Concert Hall 3/5
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