Sunday Concerts:
Piatti Ensemble

The Piatti Quartet have for many years been favourites at Conway Hall. Long-standing musical partners of our Director of Music, Simon Callaghan, they have recently joined to form the Piatti Ensemble. With piano quartets at the centre of their creative work, they will present a masterpiece by Johannes Brahms.

Bridge’s Phantasy Piano Quartet was described by his teacher, Benjamin Britten, as “sonorous yet lucid, with clear, clean lines, grateful to listen to and to play.” Composer-pianist William Busch, whose rarely-heard Piano Quartet completes the programme, was a pupil of John Ireland and the resident accompanist at Conway Hall in the first part of the twentieth century.

“Velvet gloved pianism of ravishing sensitivity.”
The Strad

Michael Trainor (violin)
Zahra Benyounes (viola)
Jessie Ann Richardson (cello)
Simon Callaghan (piano)

Programme:

Bridge | Phantasie for Piano Quartet in F♯ minor H.94
Williams Busch | Piano Quartet in G minor
Brahms | Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor Op.25