Carducci Quartet
Matthew Denton & Michelle Fleming violins
Eoin Schmidt-Martin viola, Emma Denton cello
Haydn Quartet in D Op 20 No 4 ‘Sun’
Ravel Quartet in F
Mendelssohn Quartet in F minor Op 80
The Carducci Quartet first played for Leamington Music in 2009 and this is its eighth concert in the town. The Carducci’s recent programmes here have included Shostakovich, whose full cycle the Quartet toured throughout 2015 with an accompanying CD release and which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award. With welcome inclusions in the programme of works by Haydn, Ravel, and Mendelssohn, this is a sunny delight with musical flavours from across Europe for everyone to enjoy.
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Dudok Quartet
Judith Van Driel & Marleen Wester violins
Marie-Louise de Jong viola, David Faber cello
Mozart Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’
Bacewicz Quartet No 4
Beethoven Quartet in E flat Op 74 ‘Harp’
The Dudok Quartet, based in Amsterdam and named after a famous modernist Dutch architect, Willem Dudok, not only excels in the core quartet repertoire but is admirably enterprising in the range of composers it programmes. The Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, who studied with Nadia Boulanger, features in a Leamington Music concert for the first time; a fine violinist, pupil of Carl Flesch, and also a novelist, her Quartet No 4 was written in 1951 and immediately won First Prize at the Quartet Composition Competition in Liege that year.
Concert generously supported by David & Gina Wilson
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London Haydn Quartet
Catherine Manson and Michael Gurevich violins
John Crockatt viola, Jonathan Manson cello
Jadin Quartet in B flat Op 1 No 1
Haydn Quartet in F Op 74 No 2
Mendelssohn Quartet in E flat Op 12
One of the world’s leading period instrument string quartets, The London Haydn Quartet was born out of a passion for Haydn. Founded in 2000, the Quartet has received invitations to many of the most important concert series throughout the world, and its recordings of the complete Haydn quartets on Hyperion has met with international critical acclaim. But, while Papa Haydn was these musicians’ original love, their discoveries along the way of the music of his contemporaries have uncovered much to be enjoyed, and this first quartet of Hyacinthe Jadin is one such treat.
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Consone Quartet
Agata Daraškaite & Magdalena Loth-Hill violins
Elitsa Bogdanova viola, George Ross cello
Mozart Quartet in G K387
Arriaga Quartet No 2 in A
Mendelssohn Theme & Variations and Capriccio Op 81
Beethoven Quartet in F minor Op 95 ‘Serioso’
The first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet is fast making a name for its honest and expressive interpretations of classical and romantic repertoire. The Quartet comes to Leamington for its third visit, bringing favourites from Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven partnered with music by Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga – only twenty when he died in 1826 and often referred to as the “Spanish Mozart”.
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Calidore Quartet
Jeffrey Myers & Ryan Meehan violins
Jeremy Berry viola, Estelle Choi cello
Beethoven Quartet in A Op 18 No 5
Korngold Quartet No 3 in D Op 34
Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor Op 44 No 2
Now based in New York, with a residency at the Lincoln Center, the Calidore Quartet was formed in 2010 in Los Angeles. The Quartet has benefitted from the BBC New Generation Artists scheme and has toured across Europe appearing at all the major halls. Korngold’s Quartet No 3 was written in 1945 when he was already an Oscar-winner for his film music; before he emigrated and landed up in Hollywood, he had been a child prodigy in Vienna, with his opera Die tote Stadt (written when he was just twenty) enjoying great acclaim.
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Leonkoro Quartet
Jonathan Schwarz & Amelie Wallner violins
Mayu Konoe viola, Lukas Schwarz cello
Schubert Quartet in G minor D173
Janáček Quartet No 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Brahms Quartet in C minor Op 51 No 1
As winners of the 2022 London International String Quartet Competition, the Leonkoro (which means Lionheart in Esperanto) follows all this century’s other winners to Leamington – the Esmé, Van Kuijk, Arcadia, Danish, and Atrium Quartets – so our audience will know what standards to expect. In the Competition at the Wigmore Hall, the Leonkoro won nine out of the twelve prizes awarded. Based in Berlin, the Quartet also won the Bordeaux Competition in 2022 and became BBC New Generation Artists for two years.
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