Takács Quartet

Takács Quartet review – a superlative performance in which the music never sits still

Britten’s second string quartet was framed by forward-looking works by Haydn and Beethoven with each work sounding fresh in an entrancing concert

Erica Jeal

13, Nov, 2024 @3:18 PM

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

Andrew Clements

30, May, 2024 @3:24 PM

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

Flora Willson

20, May, 2023 @11:30 AM

Ravel, Dutilleux review | Erica Jeal's classical album of the week

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

Erica Jeal

05, Jan, 2023 @3:00 PM

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

Fiona Maddocks

20, Aug, 2022 @11:30 AM

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

Andrew Clements

09, Nov, 2021 @1:16 PM

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

Fiona Maddocks

30, May, 2020 @11:00 AM

Takács Quartet review – soaring with absolute freedom

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

Erica Jeal

06, Nov, 2019 @12:45 PM

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

Andrew Clements

22, May, 2018 @2:06 PM

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

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

Fiona Maddocks

22, May, 2016 @7:00 AM

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

Andrew Clements

04, Feb, 2016 @11:53 AM

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

Edward Dusinberre

15, Jan, 2016 @4:00 PM