THE Australian Chamber Orchestra made a big, bold, and rather brash debut appearance at the Edinburgh International Festival yesterday.
Brash? Well, in a way that word sums up their playing style, as exemplified in their sizzling and volatile opening performance of CPE Bach's little Sinfonia in B flat, which you almost sense was bracing itself for an assault. And the Australians don't half attack: they launched themselves into CPE's inoffensive wee piece, which, by the spirited finale, was beginning to cower.
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