Peter Donohoe's acceptance of the invitation to become president of the Fishguard festival is symbolic both of its past prestige - Fishguard championed him early in his career - and a more general determination that it should survive into the future. This chamber concert, with Donohoe presiding from the keyboard, certainly augurs well for the partnership.

In Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A major, the wealth of melody is always uplifting. However, neither the school-hall acoustic nor the ageing concert grand helped the tone, and some of the atmospheric beauty of Dvorak's scoring was lost, as in the slow Dumka. Nevertheless, the sheer force of Donohoe's playing, with his canny phrasing and dynamic shading, together with the sensibilities of the City of Birmingham Symphony Quartet, meant that the music still managed to speak volumes.

The Elgar anniversary is a special focus of this festival, as for so many across Britain this summer, but pairing his E minor Piano Quintet with the Dvorak was interesting for emphasising Elgar's European instincts. These were audible not only in the Spanish inflections and the Gypsy lilt of the first movement, but in the surges of late Romantic melody, given a Brahmsian weight here by Donohoe.

Baritone Richard Morris and Donohoe then turned to more traditional notions of Englishness with George Butterworth's song-cycle A Shropshire Lad. Morris's ability to bring out the drama of AE Housman's words made this a vivid interpretation, with the spectral thread of Is My Team Ploughing? creating a frisson to resonate with what Elgar had called the "ghostly stuff" in his quintet.

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