Diary

Quartets by Ravel, Fanny Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky

Huw Watkins piano Emily Holland, Michael Trainor violin Miguel Sobrinho viola Jessie Ann Richardson cello

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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

Sarah Williamson and the Piatti Quartet

Finzi:                      5 Bagatelles for clarinet and string quartet
Weber:                 Clarinet quintet, op 34
Brahms:               Clarinet Quintet op. 115

Programme:
Ravel — String Quartet in F major
Schumann — Piano Quartet in E flat major Op. 47
Dvořák — Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major Op. 81

Simon Callaghan, piano

The Piatti Quartet and Emmanuel Despax join forces to present an album of works by Farrenc, Schumann and Durosoir. Louise Farrenc arranged her own brilliantly dramatic Wind Sextet and Piano, for Piano Quintet and this arrangement is a World Premiere Recording on this release. They’ve chosen to include three of Lucien Durosoir’s most touching and beautiful pieces, one for violin and piano, and two for cello and piano.

Schubert, Purcell and Elgar Quartets

B Britten String Quartet No. 1, Op. 25

J Phibbs String Quartet No. 4

C Harding Iorsa

E Elgar String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83

Elgar: Quartet

Tchaikovsky: Quartet No.1 in D major