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Sample Programmes 2020/21 Season

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String Quartet Repertoire Haydn String Quartet Op.33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’Debussy QuatorSchubert String Quartet in G major, Op. 161

Ravel String Quartet in F majorPhibbs String Quartet No. 1 (Piatti commission)Brahms String Quartet Op. 51 No. 1 in C minor

Haydn String Quartet Op. 20 No. 4Walton String Quartet in A minorMendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80

Dvořák String Quartet in F major, Op. 96Turnage Winter’s Edge (Piatti commission)Beethoven String Quartet No. 8, Op. 59 No. 2

Old AlbionPurcell Chacony in G minorBridge 3 Idylls for String QuartetBritten 3 DivertimentiElgar String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83

Brave New World Stravinsky 3 pieces for String QuartetSchulhoff String Quartet No. 1Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25

collaborations These can be performed together as a concert or spread over thecourse of a festival.

Piano Quintetswith Charles Owen; Clare Hammond; Julius Drake; Simon Callaghan; Tom Poster; Gottlieb Wallisch

Elgar Piano Quintet in A minorDvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb major, Op. 44Amy Beach Piano QuintetFranck Piano Quintet in F minorChopin Piano Concerto in E minor

Clarinet Quintetswith Michael Collins; Emma Johnson; Matthew Hunt

Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581Howells Rhapsodic Quintet, Op. 31Weber Clarinet Quintet, Op. 34Reicha Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op. 89Bliss Clarinet Quintet

String Quintetswith Pierre Doumenge; Simon Rowland-Jones; Andriy Viytovych; Krzysztof Chorzelski; Moray Welsh

Boccherini String Quintet in G minor, G. 351Schubert String Quintet in C major, D. 956Mozart String Quintet in C minor K406Haydn String Quintet in G, Hob.2Dvořák String Quintet E flat major, Op. 97 ‘American’

SextetsBrahms String Sextet No. 2 Op. 36 in G majorBrahms String Sextet No.1 in B flat majorStrauss Capriccio (sextet)Zemlinsky ‘Maiblumen blühten überall’ for soprano and string sextet

Octetswith Belcea Quartet; Castalian Quartet; Fitzroy Quartet; Aris Quartet; Benyounes Quartet

Mendelssohn String Octet in Eb Major, Op. 20Shostakovich Two pieces for String Octet, Op.11

PIATTI COMMISSIONS AND PREMIERESThe Piatti Quartet regularly commission and perform premieres of new pieces by outstanding composers:

CommissionsMark-Anthony Turnage: String Quartet No. 4 ‘Winter’s Edge’Joseph Phibbs: String Quartet No. 1Freya Waley-Cohen: ‘Vita’ for String QuartetJacques Cohen: ‘From Behind Glass’ for String QuartetPremieresSimon Holt: ‘Cloud House’Emily Howard: ‘Music of Proof’

Masterclasses & workshopsThe Piatti Quartet are well known for their inventive masterclasses, along with CAVATINA education and outreach work, as part of festival residencies.They teach regularly at Trinity Laban, the Royal Academy of Music and the Purcell School.

'Tips and Tricks to Better Intonation' and 'Tips and Tricks to Better Ensemble'; these workshops come with a handy worksheet for the students to take away, combined with playing through compositions and holding workshops for composition students to improve their string-writing technique. The quartet demonstrate many examples from within the repertoire to illustrate their points.

NathanielAnderson-Frank

violin

Michael Trainorviolin

Tetsuumi Nagataviola

JessieAnn Richardson

cello

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The Piatti Quartet are on ferociously fine form. BBC Music Magazine