Upcoming events
Vaughan Williams | Arr. Jessie Ann Richardson: Six Studies in English Folk-Song (world premiere)
Mozart | Arr. Kowalewski: Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat K595
Mendelssohn | Quartet in A minor Op.13
Piano: Simon Callaghan
Rubicon classics: World premiere recordings of Ina Boyle, Michael Tippett, alongside other fascinating and wonderful works by RVW, Howells, Arnold and Holmès.
| William Alwyn | Seven Irish Tunes |
|---|---|
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Six Studies of Folk Songs |
| Philip Sheppard | [new work] (*Folk inspired commission for Piatti Quartet) |
| Pablo Casals | Song of the Birds |
| Charlotte Harding | Iorsa |
| Antonín Dvořák | Songs my mother taught me, Op. 55, No. 4 |
| Ernest John Moeran | String Quartet No. 2 in E flat, R98 |
Mendelssohn: Quartet in A minor, Op.13
Benjamin Britten: Quartet No.1 in D major
Benjamin Britten String Quartet No. 1
Joseph Phibbs String Quartet No. 4
Charlotte Harding Iorsa (Dutch premiere)
Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13
Programme TBA
Recording Geoffrey Gordon’s music for quartet and chorus
Brahms String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor
Charlotte Harding Iorsa
Dvořák String Quartet No. 13 in G major
Cinematic Quartets
Past events
Phibbs: Quartet No.4
RVW: 6 Studies in English Folksong
Moeran: Quartet No.2 in E flat major
Dvorak: String Quartet No.13 in G major
Miguel Sobrinho (viola); Jessie Ann Richardson (cello); Emily Howard (violin); Michael Trainor (violin)
Photo: Venetia Jollands
Strauss: Prelude to Capriccio
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Jonathan Aasgaard, cello
Zahra Benyounes, viola
A private house concert, with invitation possible, just get in touch with us and we can arrange a ticket.
Dvorak: Quartet in G major
Phibbs: Quartet No.4
HERMAN (arr. Birchall) Suite from ‘Psycho’ (10’)
GREENWOOD Prospector’s Quartet from ‘There Will Be Blood’ (3’)
GLASS String Quartet No.3 (18’)
RAVEL String Quartet in F (30’)
Our debut quartet recording with Chandos Records, details TBA
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
Quartets by Ravel, Fanny Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky
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
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.
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