In Sunday's recital the guitar player not only played in Boccherini's Quintet and Arnold's Serenade but also played four solos: two Minuets by Sor, Prelude No 1 by VillaLobos and an extraordinary piece by the Slovenian composer Uros Rojko. This piece, Magnus Andersson warned before he began, had neither harmony nor melody nor rhythm.
It could be accepted as music but the noise made when the player rubbed the instrument back and front, as if polishing the back and cleaning the strings, was harder to take. It would have been funny if it had not been done with such seriousness.
Malcolm Arnold's Serenade for Guitar and Strings Op.50; arranged by the Vanbrugh, was characteristically brash and the amplification was not a worry.
Despite Anderson's skill and engaging platform manner the most carefully balanced and most satisfying performance was that of the Vanbrugh in a warm reading of Mozart's String Quartet in A, K464.