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Past events
A tour with the National String Quartet Foundation of Ireland. Works by Rachmaninov, Gribbin, Dvorak, Schubert and Smetana in various venues including the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
A fun children’s concert at Middle Temple Hall to raise funds for Orpheus Centre Trust. Sir Richard Stilgoe narrates The Snowman!
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor, Op.80
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor
We kickstart our Kings Place residency with two stunning works and begin our survey of Dvořák’s imaginative and joyous late string quartets.
Audience are invited to have a drink and meet us afterwards in the Kings Place bar.
Scubert: Quartetsatz in C minor
Dvořák: Quartet in F major, Op,96, ‘American’
Mendelssohn: Octet
Piatti Quartet and Friends
Brahms: Sextet in B flat major No.1, Op.18
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op.70
Cello: Jonathan Aasgaard
Viola: Rachel Roberts
Phibbs: String Quintet (world premiere)
Phibbs: Cantus After Bach
Schubert: String Quintet in C D956
Cello: Tim Lowe
Phibbs: String Quartet No.1
Phibbs: Cantus After Bach
2 concerts will be dedicated to the composer Joseph Phibbs, a composer we’ve worked with for nearly 10 years and which began with this magical String Quartet No.1 we commissioned.back in 2014 at the Rye Arts Festival.
Schubert: Quartetsatz in C minor D703
Dvorak: Quartet in F major, ‘American’, Op.96
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.11
Clarinet: Sacha Rattle
Repertoire tbc
Schubert Quartet in C minor, D703 Quartettsatz
Dvořák Quartet No 12 in F, Op 96 American
Charlotte Harding Iorsa (Piatti commission)
Smetana Quartet No 1 in E minor From my life
Felix Mendelssohn Quartet in E flat Op.12
Vaughan Williams Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes ‘Household Music’
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op.115
Clarinet: Sacha Rattle
Schubert: Quartetsatz in C minor
Dvorak: Quartet in F major, ‘American’
Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Op.10
Clarinet: John Finucane
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op.12
Stanford: Phantasy Clarinet Quintet, No.2
Beach: Piano Quintet, Op.67
Piano: Lance Coburn
Clarinet: John Finucane
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’
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’
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
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
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
Programme tba
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