“….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 performer in an ensemble of such accomplishment, but viola player Miguel Sobrinho was mesmeric. 

There was an opportunity for one (entirely non-film related) encore, the Cantilena from Joseph Phibbs’ String Quartet no. 4, written for the Piatti Quartet. It felt like nothing so much as a late Beethoven slow movement in 21st-century guise, crowning a concert of rich variety.”

Phil Parker, November 2025