BADKE QUARTET - quartetto d'archi

Heater Badke , Emma Parker – violino

Eniko Magyar – viola

Jonathan Byers – violoncello

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RECENSIONI   

THE STRAD 

Formed in 2002, the Badke Quartet has nothing like the Takács’s 30-year experience, but its St John’s, Smith Square, concert with Warren Mailley-Smith showed promising potential (12 November). In the opening movement of Haydn’s String Quartet in G major op.76 no.1 the players exhibited a stylish, collegial spirit and a simple youthfulness that was carefully measured rather than intuitively overdone. The broad Andante sostenuto second movement came across with great depth and a Beethovenian sense of fantasy, while most of the movement was daringly dispatched without vibrato. The presto theme of the minuet may not have been fleet-footed enough, but its variations were suitably varied and coloured.

Then came a perceptive performance of Shostakovich’s String Quartet no.10, where the understated but unmistakably dark opening Andante was balanced by a second movement whose bold, driving rhythmic energy was never over-pushed. The pivotal, intense cello solo of the third movement was skilfully played by cellist Jonathan Byers. After the interval the group accompanied pianist Warren Mailley-Smith in Mozart’s Piano Concerto no.12 in A major K414. This is a well-balanced quartet, led with attitude and flair by Heather Badke, its Wigmore Hall debut this June should be an exciting event. - Edward Bhesania  

PROGETTI FUTURI

fra i prossimi concerti il debutto a novembre 2008 alla Musikverein di Vienna, tournées in Irlanda e Scozia, concerti in Francia, Svizzera e Germania ed un re-invito alla Wigmore Hall di Londra a luglio 2009

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BIOGRAFIA   

Badke Quartet è uno dei migliori giovani quartetti  britannici emergenti, perfezionatosi con il Quartetto Alban Berg.  

In seguito alla vittoria - nel Luglio 2007 -  del primo premio alla Melbourne Chamber Music Competition,  il Quartetto si impone all’attenzione internazionale.    

Ha suonato alla Bridgewater Hall di Manchester, ai Festival di  Winchester, Montreaux, Lichfield, Cork, Mecklenburg, Aldeburgh, Chichester, Verbier, Bellerive, Belfast ed al "Mostly Mozart Festival" presso il Barbican Centre di Londra, oltre che in Germania per la Frankfurt Philharmonic Society.

Recentemente ha suonato alla Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square e Royal Festival Hall di Londra  ed inoltre, a St George’s - Bristol  ed alla  St David’s Hall di Cardiff .  

I concerti live del Badke Quartet sono stati trasmessi da Classic FM e BBC.

stagione 2008/2009

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