Butter Quartet (NL)
You are invited to listen to the recording of the concert in the Banchetto Musicale broadcast !
The online limit of the recording is 30 days.
Concert leaflet
The Butter Quartet consists of four musicians brought together by their mutual love of vibrant historically informed performances of string quartets. They first formed at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and soon developed a passion and dynamic that extended beyond their studies. They have been featured in festivals and series internationally, as well as on BBC Radio 3 and the Dutch station NPO Radio 4. After competing as finalists in the 2019 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, they were awarded the prestigious EEEMERGING+ prize. The Butter Quartet enjoys integrating their research on late 18th- and early 19th-century performance practice into powerful live performances. They value a strong connection with their audiences, playing in diverse spaces and speaking during concerts. The Butter Quartet has received numerous grants and scholarships, and they are a beneficiary of the EEEMERGING+ project supported by Creative Europe. https://www.butterquartet.com/
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Artists’ message to visitors
We are a string quartet that is passionate about bringing old music to life in a new and fresh way. We have prepared a dynamic program of music written by Haydn, Mozart, and Vanhal. They were all friends and played quartets together with a fourth musician, Dittersdorf, and would write music for these gatherings. Haydn and Mozart are still famous today for their masterful compositions, and while the two others have fallen into ambiguity, they have nonetheless left many fine compositions for us to enjoy today. These creative and intimate gatherings produced a lot of exquisite music, and our concert reflects this spirit. We perform on original instruments that are set up in a way that they would have been at the time the music was written. We also research how performers in the time would have played, using various expressive tools that have been lost with time. We cannot wait to share this exciting programme with you.
The mission statement of the ensemble
We are passionate about bringing lively, engaging, and joyful performances of string quartet repertoire to a broad audience. Through playing on historical instruments and our research, we aim to bring this music to life in a fresh way full of affects, dialogue, and humour. Whether performing on a street corner, in a café, in a church, or in a large concert hall, we create an intimate atmosphere that reflects the spirit of how this music was originally performed and engages our audiences in an immediate way.
Event programme
Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813):
Quartetto VI: Oeuvre 6e (Op.6/6)
Allegro / Adagio / Presto
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809):
Quartetto III: Oeuvre XVI. (Op.20/3)
Allegro con Spirito / Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio / Poco Adagio / Finale: Allegro di Molto
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Quartetto V: Opera X. (K. 464)
Allegro / Menuetto - Trio / Andante / Allegro non troppo
Banchetto musicale
Banchetto musicale is a broadcast in which we focus on concert recordings of music from an earlier date on the Ars program. In it, we listen to recordings of our central early music festivals - the Radovljica Festival and Seviqc Brežice, as well as foreign concerts performed by renowned artists, experts in the performance of early music.
