Piatti Quartet: cinema without the moving pictures in Sheffield

By Phil Parker, 07 November 2025

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“a persuasive path between psychological unease and abject terror”

Reviewed at Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield on 6 November 2025

Herrmann, Psycho Suite for Strings (arr. Birchall)

Greenwood, Film music from There Will Be Blood (Prospector’s Quartet)

Glass, String Quartet no. 3, “Mishima”

Ravel, String Quartet in F major

Piatti Quartet

Emily Holland, Violin

Michael Trainor, Violin

Miguel Sobrinho, Viola

Jessie Ann Richardson, Cello

In Pursuit of Love: Piatti Quartet plays Borodin and Tchaikovsky

Roy Westbrook, 13th February

One hour of the most attractive and approachable music at Kings Place, with no interval, finishing at eight... but a hall half full.

*****

Requiem to a troubled genius at the Southbank’s Multitudes

Chris Garlick, 29th April

As part of the Southbank Centre's Multitudes festival, Unnatural Harmony: Sounds of Lee Alexander McQueen offers a multimedia tribute to the life and creative vision of the iconic British fashion designer.

****1

Steve Reich at 90 celebrated in Liverpool

Pwyll ap Sion, 29th April

A compelling concert at Liverpool’s Tung Auditorium offers a striking Josephine Stephenson’s UK premiere, dazzling John Adams and Steve Reich’s mesmerising Reich/Richter.

*****

Dazzling Prokofiev from Alim Beisembayev and the RLPO

Peter Connors, 26th April

In an all-Russian programme in Liverpool, Alim Beisembayev gives a breathtaking performance of Prokofiev's fiendishly difficult Second Piano Concerto.

****1

Wretches like us: the LPO’s concert Wozzeck cuts to the quick

Peter Quantrill, 25th April

Beautifully prepared singing and playing brings out the tender side to Berg's modernist classic as part of the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival.

****1

A Evgeny Kissin tour de force in Boston

Kevin Wells, 25th April

Andrey Boreyko makes an impressive debut with the Boston Symphony, where Evgeny Kissin performs in not one, but two piano concertos.

****1

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Phil Parker

Phil is a retired A-level English teacher who is now able to devote his life to things he really wants to do with his time. These include, but are not limited to: writing short fiction (his first collection, Girl with Fan, was published in late 2023), singing, creating programme notes for his choir’s concerts, volunteering, cooking, reading, and attending all home games at his beloved Manchester City. Alongside these is listening to classical music (live, on disc and on the radio), a lifetime’s love of which was sparked at the age of 11 when he discovered Haydn.