“Like Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale or Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, this quartet miraculously cohered into a satisfying whole, despite wildly differing material (Phibbs Quartet No.4 premiere). Each sharply defined movement added a vital element to the work’s cogency and sense of inevitability and the Piattis captured its various moods with poetry and a firm grasp of this composer’s warmly attractive soundworld. ….A refreshing, open-hearted account of E J Moeran’s lyrical, folksong-inflected String Quartet No 2 brought this thoroughly enjoyable, superbly played concert to an
Paul Conway, Musical Opinion, August 2024
exhilarating close.”