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Piatti Quartet

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Format: CD
Label: Champs Hill
UPC: 5060212591517
Catnr: CHRCD 145
Release date: 05 October 2018
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Champs Hill
UPC
5060212591517
Catalogue number
CHRCD 145
Release date
05 October 2018

"This cd contains daring, challenging, emotionally heavily loaded and occasionally, misty and extremely complex music for the enthusiast, played by four top musicians."

Stretto, 02-11-2018
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About the album

The inspiration for the album began with their commission of Joseph Phibbs’ String Quartet No 1 in 2014, premiered at the Rye Arts Festival, where audiences were enthusiastic to hear the work again.

The Three Idylls by Frank Bridge are apt companion pieces to the Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge by Benjamin Britten.

The finale to this British-themed compendium owes its inclusion to the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, where the Piatti Quartet won a special prize in 2015 for a performance of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s piece Contusion.

This is the world-premiere recording of Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad, premiered in 2010 by the Belcea Quartet. In this piece the outer movements draw on themes by Led Zeppelin, from Dazed and Confused and Stairway to Heaven and the central movement is dedicated to Fausto Moroni, long-term partner of the composer Hans Werner Henze with whom Turnage studied.

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Piatti Quartet

The Piatti Quartet are one of the most distinguished quartets of their generation. Prizewinners at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, they have performed in all the major venues and festivals around the country as well as concerts throughout the world, with national broadcasts on BBC Radio, ABC (Australia), RTÉ (Ireland) and France Musique (France). The Piattis are renowned for their diversity, commitment and passionate interpretations across the spectrum of quartet writing. World premieres are regularly performed alongside old masterpieces and the Piattis are particularly known for expanding the quartet genre through their collaborations with leading British composers. Current and recent premieres include new works by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Darren Bloom, Emily Howard (The Music of Proof with celebrated mathematician...
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The Piatti Quartet are one of the most distinguished quartets of their generation. Prizewinners at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, they have performed in all the major venues and festivals around the country as well as concerts throughout the world, with national broadcasts on BBC Radio, ABC (Australia), RTÉ (Ireland) and France Musique (France).

The Piattis are renowned for their diversity, commitment and passionate interpretations across the spectrum of quartet writing. World premieres are regularly performed alongside old masterpieces and the Piattis are particularly known for expanding the quartet genre through their collaborations with leading British composers. Current and recent premieres include new works by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Darren Bloom, Emily Howard (The Music of Proof with celebrated mathematician Marcus du Sautoy), Simon Holt, Freya Waley-Cohen and Jacques Cohen. The quartet have collaborated with artists such as Ian Bostridge, Michael Collins, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Julius Drake, Charles Owen and Guy Johnston.

The Quartet’s other recordings have been released on the Linn Records, NMC and Champs Hill labels, including the Piatti’s lauded contribution to the complete string quartet works of Felix Mendelssohn (Champs Hill), which was BBC Music Magazine’s Critic’s Choice (September 2014). Most recently, the Quartet was featured on a jazz concept album released by 33 Records and critical acclaim for this recording has included a 4.5* review from Downbeat Magazine.

Recent seasons have included debuts in Rotterdam, Istanbul, and Barcelona, and concerts at the Aldeburgh Festival. At the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, the Piatti Quartet won overall 2nd Prize as well as the St. Lawrence SQ prize and the Sidney Griller Award for the best performance of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Contusion.

The Piatti Quartet takes its name from the great 19th-century cellist Alfredo Piatti, who was a leading professor and exponent of chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music.


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Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with...
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Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with the legendary cellist Rostropovich led to a Cello sonata, three Suites for cello solo and a Symphony for Cello and orchestra in the 1960s.

Britten never became Master of the Queen's Music, yet he surely had feeling for public sentiments. For example, as a pacifist, he taught his people about world peace through his War Requiem from 1962. Britten was an excellent interpreter of his own work, just like Bartók and Stravinsky. Many of his recordings have been matched, but never exceeded.


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Joseph Phibbs

Joseph Phibbs was born in London, and studied at The Purcell School, King’s College London, and Cornell University. His teachers have included Param Vir, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and Steven Stucky. Described by BBC Music Magazine as “one of the most successful composers of his generation”, Phibbs’s works have been championed by some of the world’s leading conductors, including Edward Gardner, Gianandrea Noseda, Sakari Oramo, Vassily Petrenko, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alexander Shelley, and Leonard Slatkin. Rivers to the Sea, the first of several large-scale orchestral works composed in recent years, was premiered to acclaim in 2012 by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen, and has since received numerous performances in the UK and abroad, winning a British Composer Award in 2013. His most recent...
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Joseph Phibbs was born in London, and studied at The Purcell School, King’s College London, and Cornell University. His teachers have included Param Vir, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and Steven Stucky.
Described by BBC Music Magazine as “one of the most successful composers of his generation”, Phibbs’s works have been championed by some of the world’s leading conductors, including Edward Gardner, Gianandrea Noseda, Sakari Oramo, Vassily Petrenko, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alexander Shelley, and Leonard Slatkin. Rivers to the Sea, the first of several large-scale orchestral works composed in recent years, was premiered to acclaim in 2012 by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen, and has since received numerous performances in the UK and abroad, winning a British Composer Award in 2013.
His most recent large-scale work is a Clarinet Concerto, a three-way commission between the soloist, Philharmonia Orchestra, and Malmo Symphony Orchestra, and first performed in 2017 by Mark van de Wiel and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Edward Gardner. A recording was released recently on Signum, attracting critical acclaim in The Sunday Times, Classic FM, Classical Source, and elsewhere. He has also composed concertos for Evelyn Glennie (Bar Veloce), Sarah Williamson (Concertino for clarinet, strings, and harp), and Nicholas Daniel (Towards Purcell, a concertante work for oboe, horn, harp), as well as Evian Variations (Dacha Savoyarde) for cello and orchestra, premiered under Laurence Dale at the 2013 Evian Festival.
Other orchestras to have performed and commissioned his works include the London Symphony Orchestra, Washington Symphony Orchestra, and BBC Symphony Orchestra, for which he has written five works to date, including In Camera, Lumina (Last Night of the Proms), and Partita, for which he received a Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award.
His instrumental music includes three string quartets, the most recent receiving its premiere at Carnegie Hall in 2018 by Belcea Quartet, before coming to the Wigmore Hall earlier this year. String Quartets 1 and 2 were commissioned by Piatti Quartet and Navarra Quartet respectively, and are performed regularly throughout Europe, with No.2 featuring at this year’s Three Choirs Festival. A work for viola and piano, Letters from Warsaw, has been performed extensively by its commissioner Krzysztof Chorzelski, on whose family background it is based.
Additional chamber works have been performed and commissioned by London Sinfonietta, Chroma, Orchestra of the Swan, Britten Sinfonia, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Michael Chance, Katya Apekisheva, Iestyn Davies, Tim Mead, James Boyd, and Andrew Matthews-Owen (Richard Thomas Foundation commission), and have appeared at festivals including Aldeburgh, Three Choirs, Cheltenham, Spitalfields, Tanglewood, and Hampstead Arts. Over the last decade he has been closely associated with the Presteigne Festival, for which director George Vass has commissioned numerous works, including (jointly with Nova Music Opera and Cheltenham Festival) the chamber opera Juliana, to a libretto by Laurie Slade.
Large-scale choral works include Rainland (commissioned and premiered by Phillip Scott), Tenebrae, and Choral Songs of Homage (commissioned by Aldeburgh Music Club for the Britten centenary). His unaccompanied choral works are performed regularly, and include Nesciens Mater (commissioned and recorded by The Sixteen/Harry Christophers), a Missa Brevis, and the carol ‘Lullay, Lullay, thou lytil child’ (toured by The Sixteen/Christophers last Christmas). His most recent choral work, Night Songs, was recently released by Chromium Music Group.
From 2008-2018 Phibbs was a director of The Britten Estate Limited. He has held teaching positions at Wells Cathedral School (2009-2010), King’s College London (2011-14), and Cambridge University (supervisor, 2014-15), and currently teaches composition part time at The Purcell School.

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This cd contains daring, challenging, emotionally heavily loaded and occasionally, misty and extremely complex music for the enthusiast, played by four top musicians.
Stretto, 02-11-2018

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01.
Three Idylls for String Quartet: I. Adagio molto espressivo
08:10
(Frank Bridge) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Michael Trainor, Piatti Quartet
02.
Three Idylls for String Quartet: II. Allegretto poco lento
03:02
(Frank Bridge) Michael Trainor, Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
03.
Three Idylls for String Quartet: III. Allegro con moto
04:03
(Frank Bridge) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
04.
Three Divertimenti for String Quartet: I. March : Allegro maestoso
03:39
(Benjamin Britten) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
05.
Three Divertimenti for String Quartet: II. Waltz : Allegretto
03:29
(Benjamin Britten) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
06.
Three Divertimenti for String Quartet: III. Burlesque : Presto
03:46
(Benjamin Britten) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
07.
String Quartet No.1: I. Andante
03:18
(Joseph Phibbs) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
08.
String Quartet No.1: II. Canto 1 ? Con forza ? Duo 1
07:17
(Joseph Phibbs) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
09.
String Quartet No.1: III. Allegro ? Duo 2
02:25
(Joseph Phibbs) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
10.
String Quartet No.1: IV. Canto 2 ? Piu mosso ? Duo 3 ? Duo 4 ? Canto 3
05:52
(Joseph Phibbs) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
11.
String Quartet No.1: V. Vocalise
03:39
(Joseph Phibbs) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
12.
Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad: I. Twisted blues : variants on Led Zeppelin's
08:37
(Mark-Anthony Turnage) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
13.
Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad: II. Funeral blues
05:28
(Mark-Anthony Turnage) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
14.
Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad: III. Twisted ballad : reflections on Led Zeppelin's
08:32
(Mark-Anthony Turnage) Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson, Piatti Quartet
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