Upcoming events
The Piatti Quartet and Emmanuel Despax join forces to present an album of works by Farrenc, Schumann and Durosoir. Louise Farrenc arranged her own brilliantly dramatic Wind Sextet and Piano, for Piano Quintet and this arrangement is a World Premiere Recording on this release. They’ve chosen to include three of Lucien Durosoir’s most touching and beautiful pieces, one for violin and piano, and two for cello and piano.
Programme:
Ravel — String Quartet in F major
Schumann — Piano Quartet in E flat major Op. 47
Dvořák — Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major Op. 81
Simon Callaghan, piano
Sarah Williamson and the Piatti Quartet
Finzi: 5 Bagatelles for clarinet and string quartet
Weber: Clarinet quintet, op 34
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet op. 115
Programme to include:
Michael Higgins – The cloths of heaven
Libby Croad – The Brontë Suite
Jake Runestad – Flower into kindness
Ned Rorem – Little Lamb, who made thee
Piatti Quartet
St Martin’s Voices
Andrew Earis conductor
Joseph Phibbs String Quartet no1
Charlotte Harding Iorsa
Mark-Anthony Turnage Winter’s Edge III
Thomas Adès Arcadiana op12: V L’embarquement
Edmund Finnis String Quartet no1 ‘Aloysius’: IV Hymn (After Byrd)
Ralph Vaughan Williams String Quartet no2 in A minor
‘Albion Refracted’ combines music and words in a programme which takes a contemporary look at our relationship with nature and the English landscape. It’s bookended by works 70 years apart, starting most recently with Joseph Phibbs – a composer with whom the Piattis have a particularly close relationship – and ending with Vaughan Williams, whose name inevitably evokes thoughts of the English countryside.
Interwoven through the music are poems by Alice Oswald, Seamus Heaney and others.
In putting these works together the quartet hope we’ll be inspired to explore a deeper connection to nature, to reflect on the healing possibilities of taking time to observe, and to seek solace in earth’s natural beauty. A perfect opportunity for an hour’s Sunday reflection on nature in all its moods.
Huw Watkins piano Emily Holland, Michael Trainor violin Miguel Sobrinho viola Jessie Ann Richardson cello
JS Bach Sarabande from Partita in D major
Robert Schumann Kinderszenen
Maurice Ravel Minuet sur le nom d’Haydn; A la manière de Borodine; A la manière d’Emmanuel Chabrier
Huw Watkins Prayer
Igor Stravinsky Tango
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor op57
Quartets by Ravel, Fanny Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky
Purcell: Chacony in G minor arr. Britten
William Alwyn: 7 Irish Tunes
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op.12
Interval
Vaughan Williams: 6 Studies in English Folk Song arr. Piatti quartet
Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No.1 in G minor
Our debut quartet recording with Chandos Records, details TBA
Past events
Schubert, Purcell and Elgar Quartets
B Britten String Quartet No. 1, Op. 25
J Phibbs String Quartet No. 4
C Harding Iorsa
E Elgar String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83
Elgar: Quartet
Tchaikovsky: Quartet No.1 in D major
MILOŠ, hailed by the Financial Times ‘as chief flag-waver and poster boy for the classical guitar’, is joined by the Piatti Quartet for a wide ranging programme that includes works by Marcello, Philip Glass, Boccherini and the The Beatles.
Household Music by Vaughan Williams
String Quartet No.1 in E Minor by Ina Boyle
(Interval)
7 Irish Tunes for String Quartet by William Alwyn
The Holy Boy by John Ireland
String Quartet No.1 by Doreen Carwithen
Webern: LangsamerSatz
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op.12
Ina Boyle: Quartet in E minor
Dvorak: ‘American’ Quartet, Op.96 in F major
Location tbc with the Opus 76 Quartet, touring from Kansas
Mendelssohn Octet with Opus 76 Quartet who are touring from Kansas!