Upcoming events
We will be delivering Cavatina workshops in June to schools local to us in London. Other opportunities to hear chamber music by members of the quartet this month include Schuberts’ Trout Quintet at St. Catherine’s Church, New Cross Gate with pianist Jocelyn Freeman
Joseph Phibbs: Cantus after Bach (Cantata BWV 4)
Vaughan Williams: Household Music – Three Preludes on Welsh Hymns
Rachmaninov: Romance from Quartet No. 1
John Ireland: Holy Boy
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 12
Vaughan Williams: Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes
Rachmaninov: String Quartet No.1
INTERVAL
Charlotte Harding: Iorsa
Smetana: String Quartet No.1 ‘From My Life’
Purcell: Chaconne in G minor, Z.730
Charlotte Harding: Iorsa (Scottish première TBC)
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No.1 in E flat, Op.12
Smetana: String Quartet No.1 in E ‘From My Life’
Past events
Vaughan Williams: Household Music, Three Preludes on Welsh Hymns
Charlotte Harding: Iorsa (Piatti Commission 2022)
Rachmaninov: String Quartet No.1
Smetana: String Quartet in E minor, ‘From My Life’
Phibbs: Cantus, After Bach
Schubert: Quartetsatz in C minor
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op.12
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Vaughan Williams: Household Music, Three Preludes on Welsh Hymns
Charlotte Harding: Iorsa (Piatti commission 2022)
Rachmaninov: String Quartet No.1
Smetana: String Quartet in E minor, ‘From My Life’
We’ll be releasing Mark-Anthony Turnage’s 2nd Quartet, ‘Contusion’ with the NMC label. The work is based on Sylvia Plath’s last poem before her suicide. We were awarded the best performance prize for this work at the Wigmore Hall International SQ Competition and Turnage subsequently revised the piece and dedicated it to us.
Smetana: Quartet in E minor ‘From My Life’
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Aberystweth
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat, Op.12
We are really excited to be releasing quartets 3 and 4 by Mark-Anthony Turnage. The third, ‘Shroud’ was commissioned by the Emerson Quartet and the fourth was commissioned by us and premiered at the Flagey Radio Festival in Brussels.
Works to include:
Ravel: Quartet in F major
Debussy: Piano Trio
Mahler: Piano Quartet
Pianist: Melvyn Tan
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op.12
Shostakovich: Quartet No.10, Op.118
Purcell: Chacony
Smetana: Quartet in E minor, ‘From My Life’
Joseph Phibbs: String Quartet No.1 (Piatti Commission)
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op.12
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Preludes on Welsh Hymns
Shostakovich: Quartet No.10, Op.118
Includes a pre-concert talk with composer Joseph Phibbs
Michael and Jessie will be recording the premiere recordings of the chamber music of William Busch for Lyrita Records.
Piano: Simon Callaghan
Hear Michael and Jessie in a range of concerts covering the Piano Quartet repertoire with pianist extraordinaire, Simon Callaghan! Works to include compositions by Brahms, Bridge, Mozart, and William Busch.
5th February, Watford
11th February, Horsham
12th February, Norwich
25th February, Clonter
26th February, Conway Hall, London
Please get in touch for more details.
We will be recording ‘Shield’, our 2022 commission from Emily Howard which was premiered at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581
Shostakovich: Quartet No.10 in A flat major, Op.118
Smetana: Quartet in E minor No.1, ‘From My Life’
Clarinet: Michael Collins
Ulmann: Quartet No.3 Op.46
Haas: Quartet No.3
Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No.2, ‘Razumovsky’
A long anticipated release of rarely heard and special quartet works by RVW, Moeran and Ireland, along with the premiere recording of Ina Boyle’s Quartet in E minor (1934). These are all composers that have links and interconnected and it is a recording packed full of memorable folk tales and tunes from the far corners of Ireland and Wales.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Preludes on Welsh Hymns (Household Music)
Mendelssohn: Quartet No.1 in E flat major, Op.12
Beethoven: Op.59 No.1 ‘Razumovsky’ in F major
Ulmann: Quartet No.3, Op.46
Haas: Quartet No.3
Beethoven: Op.59 No.2 ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet
Join us on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ programme where you’ll hear live performances and chat about the release of our latest album and how we’ll be marking Holocaust Memorial Day with curated concerts that week.
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor, Op.80
Smetana: Quartet in E minor, ‘From my Life’
Elgar: Quartet in E minor
Emily Howard: Shield *WORLD PREMIERE*
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor, Op.80
Elgar: String Quartet in E minor
A tour of the Netherlands including our debut at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. It will include a new Piatti Quartet commission from the composer Emily Howard
Elgar: Quartet in E minor
Charlotte Harding: Iorsa (2022)
Smetana: Quartet in E minor
Elgar: Quartet in E minor
Beethoven: Quartet in F major, Op.59 No.1, ‘Razumovsky’
Beethoven: Op.59 No.1 in F major, ‘Razumovsky’
Elgar: Quartet in E minor