Adelaide Chamber Players & Ironwood Review

Elder Hall, Adelaide Friday 17 April

THIS bright bunch of busy young professional string players about town have been together since 2007, playing music they love whenever they can.

The concert topped off several days' rehearsal guided by Ironwood, one of the country's newest high-profile baroque groups who are equally youthful and brimful of vim and vigour. The result was an energetic, disciplined and colourful presentation in which baroque good manners were liberally laced with infectious enthusiasm.

Guest baroque trumpeter Martin Phillipson had a ball with his piccolo trumpet in Molte's 1st Concerto and fascinatingly toned bigger brother in Torelli's Concerto - both in D, of course. The picks of the bunch were L'Estro Armonico Concerto and Corelli's Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 4.

The Advertiser, Adelaide
Written by Rodney Smith
20 April 2009