National String Quartet Foundation: Piatti Quartet (Tour)

Piatti Quartet: Michael Trainor, violin; Emily Holland, violin; Miguel Sobrinho, viola; Jessie Ann Richardson, cello.

The Piatti Quartet return for their latest tour for the National String Quartet Foundation with a wide-ranging and entertaining programme. Mendelssohn’s beautiful E flat quartet was his first published quartet and from the first bars draws the listener into a world of dramatic story-telling. E.J. Moeran’s second quartet shares the same key but in contrast offers a beguiling world of English and Irish folk song and dance, mixed perhaps with the influence of Debussy. Charlotte Harding’s ‘Iorsa’ evokes the scenic glen on the Isle of Arran, while Dvořák’s famed ‘American’ Quartet draws on both native American and Slavonic folk music, as well as, in its strong rhythmic vitality, on the composer’s fascination with railways.

Programme

WATERFORD/WEXFORD/SLIGO

Mendelssohn - Quartet in E flat major Op.12 [1829]
E.J. Moeran - Quartet in E flat [1923]
Charlotte Harding - Iorsa [2022]
Dvořák - Quartet in F major Op.96 ‘American’ [1893]

CORK/DUBLIN

For the shorter programmes in Cork and Dublin, the Dvořák is replaced by Benjamin Britten’s arrangement for string quartet of Purcell’s memorable and atmospheric Chacony.

Purcell - Chacony (arr. Britten) [1680/1963]
Mendelssohn - Quartet in E flat major Op.12 [1829]
Charlotte Harding - Iorsa [2022]
E.J. Moeran - Quartet in E flat [1923]

Tour Venues, Dates and Ticket Links

WATERFORD - Wednesday 6th March at 7.30pm - Large Room, Waterford City Hall - presented by Waterford Music
SLIGO- Thursday 7th March at 7.30pm - Methodist Church, Wine St. - presented by Con Brio
WEXFORD - Friday 8th March at 8pm - Grantstown Priory, Wellingtonbridge, Co. Wexford.Y35 D4C4 - presented by Music for Wexford
CORK - Saturday 9th March at 1pm - Triskel Christchurch
DUBLIN - Sunday 10th March at 12pm - Hugh Lane Gallery - Tickets available from Monday 4 March via the Hugh Lane Gallery website