★★★★☆ Fantastic four wander the globe from Latin America to home.

City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney
October 17, 2016

City Recital Hall’s A Little Lunch Music series, curated by Kathryn Selby, has been building a popular following over recent years with an array of diverse musical talent from William Barton to the Sydney Youth Orchestra and beyond. This time it was the turn of Guitar Trek, at 30-years on the scene and counting Australia’s premier guitar quartet. The outfit has a healthy discography behind them, and the line-up features some of the finest guitarists in the country in Timothy Kain, Minh Le Hoang, Bradley Kunda and Matt Withers. With tickets at $15 dollars a pop, not unsurprisingly the venue was fairly packed to the rafters.

The programme was diverse and engrossing, ranging from Latin Americana, an important Australian work and a comedic take of the dreaded Pachelbel’s Canon. Technically impressive, and with engaging linking banter from Kain, the audience was treated to works that included the easy-on-the-ear but also the somewhat more demanding. Alfonso Montes’ Llanura, their opening salvo, neatly combined both with its attractive fast waltz, its sunny Latin vibe and the shifting sands of its intricately interwoven...