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Piatti Quartet

Add to my Calendar 22-04-2023 19:45 22-04-2023 21:45 36 Piatti Quartet Since their prizewinning performances at the 2015 Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition the distinguished Piatti Quartet have performed and broadcast worldwide, with a wide-ranging discography on Linn, Somm, Champs Hill, Hyperion, Delphian and NMC record labels. Alongside a commitment to commissioning new music, the quartet are renowned for their advocacy of lesser known quartets by Vaughan Williams, Moeran, Rachmaninov, Ireland, Haas, Ulmann and Durosoir.   Household Music by Vaughan Williams for string quartet (or other instrumental combinations) is the composer's engaging response to his own wartime advice: that composers should write works for ‘combinations of all manner of instruments which might be played by people whiling away the waiting-hours of war’. Harding's Iorsa was commissioned by the Piatti Quartet and Three Choirs Festival in 2022 and Rachmaninov's first string quartet is a beguiling miniature written as an outstandingly gifted 17 year old. The programme ends with Smetana's highly personal tone poem, in which the composer weaves together autobiographical themes: youthful leanings towards art, joyful dance tunes, first love, a fateful ringing in his ears announcing the onset of deafness, and regret. Stapleford Granary, Stapleford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Stapleford Granary
Bury Road
Stapleford
Cambridgeshire
CB22 5BP
England

Programme

Ralph Vaughan Williams – 3 Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes
Charlotte Harding – Iorsa
Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet no.1 in E minor 'From my life', JB 1:105
Sergei Rachmaninov – String Quartet no.1: Romance

Performers

Michael Trainor – violin
 Rebecca Chan – violin
 Tetsuumi Nagata – viola
 Jessie Ann Richardson – Cello

Piatti Quartet

Programme Note

Since their prizewinning performances at the 2015 Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition the distinguished Piatti Quartet have performed and broadcast worldwide, with a wide-ranging discography on Linn, Somm, Champs Hill, Hyperion, Delphian and NMC record labels. Alongside a commitment to commissioning new music, the quartet are renowned for their advocacy of lesser known quartets by Vaughan Williams, Moeran, Rachmaninov, Ireland, Haas, Ulmann and Durosoir.

 

Household Music by Vaughan Williams for string quartet (or other instrumental combinations) is the composer's engaging response to his own wartime advice: that composers should write works for ‘combinations of all manner of instruments which might be played by people whiling away the waiting-hours of war’. Harding's Iorsa was commissioned by the Piatti Quartet and Three Choirs Festival in 2022 and Rachmaninov's first string quartet is a beguiling miniature written as an outstandingly gifted 17 year old. The programme ends with Smetana's highly personal tone poem, in which the composer weaves together autobiographical themes: youthful leanings towards art, joyful dance tunes, first love, a fateful ringing in his ears announcing the onset of deafness, and regret.

Piatti Quartet

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