Composers: Westlake, Brouwer, Assad
Performers: Weimar Guitar Quartet
Catalogue Number: weimarguitarquartet.com

The Weimar Guitar Quartet is a new ensemble with a familiar face among them; regular Limelight readers may recognise Australian guitarist Stephanie Jones. She’s moved to Germany to study, and linked up with Karmen Stendler, Hanna Link, and Jakob Schmidt to form the WGQ.

The guitar quartet is a tricky ensemble for the simple reason that with four guitars you’re stuck with a lot of the same timbre. That’s part of the reason why Westlake’s Six Fish is one of the better guitar quartet works, since it’s for the inventive combination...