Piatti Quartet © Venetia Jollands
Piatti Quartet © Venetia Jollands
(Event 4: Sun 5 Oct 2025 12.00pm Little Missenden Village Hall)
Emily Holland, Michael Trainor violin Miguel Sobrinho viola Jessie Ann Richardson cello
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
Programme Notes available for download here and free at concert
‘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.
Resident Quartet at Kings Place, London, the Piatti Quartet are renowned for their ‘profound music making’ (The Strad) and their ‘lyrical warmth’ (BBC Music Magazine). Since their prizewinning performances at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, they’ve performed all over the world and made international broadcasts from many countries.
The quartet’s name is a tribute to Alfredo Piatti, a 19th-century virtuoso cellist who was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music (also the alma mater of the quartet’s founders).
“…meticulous attention to detail is combined with strong expressive impulse and a wonderful sense of musical drama. Their performances – whether of new music or standard classics – have a freshness and vitality which sweeps audiences along with them. They love music and know how to share that love with others.” Schott Music
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Sun 5 Oct 2025 12.00pm
Little Missenden Village Hall
£20 (£15 if purchased together with next event - Piatti Quartet with Huw Watkins)
Online booking is managed by TicketSource. This event may be booked from the Tickets link on this page but, when booking for multiple events, it may be more convenient to use our Little Missenden Festival page on TicketSource.