"*...pianist Simon Callaghan picks you up at the start of each movement and maintains an expressive, flexible continuity to the end…\[he\] plays with a gorgeous tone, whether slow and legato or en pointe with rapid triplets*." - **Fanfare, US** A world premiere from Joseph Cabon opens this richly English first half, framed by Howells at his most rhapsodic and elegiac. **Peter Cigleris**, a clarinettist with a growing reputation for his work uncovering British rarities, joins our Artistic Director **Simon Callaghan** for the soaring Clarinet Sonata, before the **Piatti Quartet** turn to Tchaikovsky's youthful, melody-laden First Quartet to close a concert that pairs discovery with deep romantic warmth. **PROGRAMME:** **Joseph Cabon** | Wide Ruins (world premiere) **Howells** | Rhapsodic Quintet Op.31 **Howells** | Clarinet Sonata **Tchaikovsky** | Quartet No.1 in D Op.11 **PIATTI QUARTET, SIMON CALLAGHAN & PETER CIGLERIS:** Peter Cigleris • *clarinet* Simon Callaghan • *piano* Michael Trainor • *violin* Emily Holland • *violin* Miguel Sobrinho • *viola* Jessie Ann Richardson • *cello*