“….After the interval, the Ravel String Quartet in F major was like moving from black-and-white to colour, and the Piattis made the most of its vividly kaleidoscopic shimmering texture. It’s hard to imagine a finer performance, spikily percussive in the pizzicato-led second movement, then silkily dreamy in the slow-breathed third. It seems invidious to highlight any one…

Joseph Phibbs: String Quartets 2–4. Piatti Quartet. Nimbus “Because this CD is so captivating that it can’t be a coincidence – perhaps because Phibbs has a particular fondness for strings, or because the Piatti Quartet simply plays fantastically. There’s something else: These quartets manage to be reminiscent of no other existing ones, even though enough…

“The Piatti make every phrase sing, moulding their lines elegantly over Despax’s sparkling, transparent streams of piano figuration. This is a performance of wonderful polish and verve…..Jessie Ann Richardson’s cello sound is particularly luminous in the slow movement…(Durosoir’s miniatures) they are played with the same refinement and imagination that these performers bring to the entire…