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Takács Quartet

May 2024

  • Takács Quartet.

    Schubert: String Quartets in G, D887 and B Flat, D112 album review – Takács take their time, this time

    The group’s new recording of G major quartet is strikingly different from their intense 1997 recording, while the Haydnesque B flat is a model of good manners

May 2023

  • Sophia Theodorides, with assorted ‘physics-defying’ pearls, makes her Opera North debut as Leïla in The Pearl Fishers. Photograph by James Glossop

    The week in classical: The Pearl Fishers; Takács Quartet – review

    Opera North’s latest concert staging goes big on pearls, with commitment to match. And the peerless Takács give a masterclass in delayed gratification

January 2023

  • A vivid, assertive performance … Takács Quartet.

    Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets review – witty scenes of 20s Paris and gossamer delicacy

    A long-awaited recording of Ravel is accompanied by Stephen Hough’s composition, absurdist vignettes of Paris

August 2022

  • Salome Curtain Call at Usher Hall

    The week in classical at the Edinburgh festival, from Salome to Madame Chandelier

    The striptease is all Strauss’s in the Bergen Philharmonic’s expertly revealing Salome. Plus, the new-ish Takács Quartet, a theorbo moment and a sock-throwing night at the opera

November 2021

  • New lineup … (l to r) Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes, András Fejér and Richard O’Neill of the Takács Quartet at Wigmore Hall.

    Takács Quartet review – immaculate as ever but new lineup needs to settle

    With a new member there were thrilling moments but also some unevenness in a programme of Beethoven, Janáček and Haydn

May 2020

  • The Takács Quartet

    Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets review – the Takács and Garrick Ohlsson in a passionate embrace

    Ohlsson joins the Takács Quartet to delve deep into Elgar’s intimate 1918 work, alongside restless Amy Beach

November 2019

  • Takács Quartet.

    Takács Quartet review – soaring with absolute freedom

    From Hadyn’s chirruping birds to knotty Mendelssohn, the quartet shows unlimited musical imagination

May 2018

  • 2018 photo of the Takacs Quartet, in residence at the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

    Takács Quartet review – sheer aural pleasure

    A new second violin in no way diminishes the quartet’s astounding unanimity and meticulous attention to detail – as this programme of Tchaikovsky and Brahms showed

May 2016

  • Takacs Quartet. Must Credit Ellen Appel

    Franck: Piano Quintet, Debussy: String Quartet CD review – a game of two halves

    Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
    (Hyperion)

February 2016

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    Takács Quartet review – Beethoven outstrips easy-listening Andres

    The Takács lavished care on Timo Andres’s unremarkable Strong Language, but Elgar’s Piano Quintet, with Aleksandar Madžar, and early Beethoven were irresistible

January 2016

  • Takács Quartet

    In sickness and health: how Beethoven tested the Takács Quartet

    The Takács are so reliant on each other that they have taken out insurance on their lives. Lead violinist Edward Dusinberre explores the musical and personal links between health and harmony

February 2015

  • Adrianne Pieczonka (Senta) in Der Fliegende

    Der fliegende Holländer; Takács Quartet review – calm amid the storm

    Bryn Terfel and Adrianne Pieczonka anchor Royal Opera’s fine Flying Dutchman revival

November 2014

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    A Tribute to Steve Martland; Secret Theatres: Harrison Birtwistle; Takács Quartet and Louise Williams – review

  • Takács Quartet

    Takács Quartet/Williams review – seraphic unity of execution

April 2014

  • Brahms: String Quintets review – the Takács and Lawrence Power captivate

    The Takács Quartet and Lawrence Power are a dream team on two of Brahms's finest chamber works, writes Fiona Maddocks

March 2014

  • dido and aeneas operaupclose

    Dido and Aeneas/Young Wife; Takács Quartet – review

    OperaUpClose take illuminating liberties with Purcell, writes Stephen Pritchard

February 2014

  • Takacs Quartet

    Takács Quartet/Mitchell review

    The Takács found heart in Janáček and poise in Dvořák, writes Erica Jeal

November 2013

February 2013

  • Power/Owen/Takács Quartet – review

    Quartet playing doesn't get much better than when the Takács hit their stride, writes Martin Kettle

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