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The Takács Quartet Celebrate 50th Season
Winter-Spring Tour Dates and a New Recording on Hyperion with Marc André Hamelin:
Dvorak and Price Quintets
Release Date: March 28
Takács recording of Ngwenyama's Flow (Hyperion) nominated for Presto's Best EP of the Year
"...sweat, comedy and blazing brilliance."
The Times (London)
"...mesmerizing to witness...featuring emphatic interjections between the players with bows flying, as if they were making strong points in a conversation."
Cincinnati Business Courier
The Grammy Award-winning Takács Quartet, currently in their illustrious 50th Season, continue to thrill audineces around the world. The Guardian's review of the Quartet's concert in London this fall, captures the palpabale excitement of the moment: "Right from the start of this concert it was clear that we were in for more of the kind of superlative music-making we have come almost to take for granted from the Takács Quartet...None of the music on the programme ever sat still." This winter and spring, the quartet will bring a wide variety of repertoire to more than a dozen cities in the US (and Toronto) . A schedule of upcoming concerts is below.
The Takács Quartet are: violinists Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes, violist Richard O’Neill and cellist András Fejér.
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New Recording on Hyperion with Marc André Hamelin out March 28
In March, the Takács release their next recording on Hyperion -- Piano Quintets by Antonín Dvořák and Florence Price, featuring pianist and longtime Takács collaborator Marc-André Hamelin. The Strad noted, in response to seeing them perform the Dvořák with Hamelin, "Though effortless on the surface, these performances were clearly shaped by deep experience and commitment."
The Quartet’s most recent release for Hyperion was an EP of Flow (Nov 2024), a new work by violist and composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama that the Quartet premiered last season to enthusiastic audiences and critical acclaim. Their Hyperion recording of Schubert’s D112 and D887 quartets (June 2024) was the subject of an in-depth feature in Strings magazine and was named a Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice for July 2024.
The Quartet's Hyperion recordings are now also available for streaming.
About This Season's Concert Repertoire
Beethoven, Brahms, Britten, Haydn, Schubert, Janáček, and Hough
Violinist Edward Dusinberre offered the following thoughts about this season's repertoire: "What unites the string quartets we have chosen for our fiftieth anniversary is a sense of daring and innovation. All of these pieces demonstrate the spark that ignites when the demands of individual expression on the one hand, and the goal of a unified interpretation on the other, are engaged with each other. Above all it is this creative tension that makes quartet work so rewarding - in our fiftieth year, we have chosen music that vividly realizes this precarious yet magical equilibrium."
The Quartet welcomes two extraordinary pianists to join them for Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor: Jeremy Denk in Napa and Berkeley in January and Sir Stephen Hough in Princeton and Toronto in February. Throughout the season, the Quartet also performs Hough’s evocative, engaging first string quartet, Les Six rencontres, that he wrote for the Takács in 2020 and which they subsequently recorded for Hyperion. The Quartet will collaborate with cellist David Requiro—playing Schubert’s transcendent two-cello quintet in concerts from January to April.
Takács Quartet Concerts, January - April, 2025
Thursday, January 23, 2025 / Philadelphia, PA
PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY with Jeremy Denk, piano
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No 1
JANÁČEK String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”
BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 with Jeremy Denk, piano
January 25 & 26, 2025 / Berkeley, CA
CAL PERFORMANCES with Jeremy Denk, piano
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No 1
JANÁČEK String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”
BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 with Jeremy Denk, piano
Monday, January 27, 2025 / Napa, CA
CHAMBER MUSIC IN NAPA VALLEY with Jeremy Denk, piano
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No 1
JANÁČEK String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”
BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 with Jeremy Denk, piano
Sunday, February 11, 2025 / Fernandina Beach, FL
AMELIA ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Opus 54 No. 2
HOUGH String Quartet No 1 “Les Six Rencontres”
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 59 No. 1
Friday, February 14, 2025 / Irvine, CA
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS with David Requiro, cello
HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Opus 54 No. 2
BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2
SCHUBERT String Quintet in C Major, D.956 with David Requiro, cello
Sunday, February 16, 2025 / Berkeley, CA
CAL PERFORMANCES
HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Opus 54 No. 2
BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 59 No. 1
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 / College Park, MD
THE CLARICE AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND with Stephen Hough, piano
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No. 1
HOUGH String Quartet No. 1 “Les Six Rencontres”
BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 with Stephen Hough, piano
Thursday, February 20, 2025 / Princeton, NJ
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERTS with Stephen Hough, piano
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No 1
HOUGH String Quartet No 1 “Les Six Rencontres”
BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 with Stephen Hough, piano
Friday, February 21, 2025 / Toronto, ON
THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC with Stephen Hough, piano
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No. 1
HOUGH String Quartet No. 1 “Les Six Rencontres”
BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 with Stephen Hough, piano
Sunday, February 23, 2025 / Albuquerque, NM
CHAMBER MUSIC ALBUQUERQUE with David Requiro, Cello
HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Opus 54 No. 2
BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2
SCHUBERT String Quintet in C Major, D.956 with David Requiro, cello
Thursday, March 6, 2025 / Aspen, CO
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No. 1
BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 3
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135
MARCH 9 & 10, 2025 / Boulder CO
CU PRESENTS, GRUSIN HALL BOULDER with Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano
HINDEMITH: “Melancholie” Four Songs, Opus 13 with Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano
BARTÓK: String Quartet No 3
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F major, Opus 135
EUROPEAN TOUR, March 15-25, 2025
March 15 / Plymouth, UK / UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
March 17 / London, UK / WIGMORE HALL
March 18 / Richmond, UK / RICHMOND CONCERT SOCIETY
March 19 / London, UK / WIGMORE HALL
March 23 / Budapest, Hungary / FRANZ LISZT ACADEMY
March 25 / Bern, Switzerland / KONSERVATORIUM BERN
Saturday, April 5, 2025 / Lakewood, CO
LAKEWOOD CULTURAL CENTER PRESENTS
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No. 1
JANÁČEK: String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet in F Major, Opus 96 “American”
April 13 & 14, 2025 / Boulder, CO
CU PRESENTS, GRUSIN HALL BOULDER with Nicolò Spera, guitar
HAYDN String Quartet in G Major, Opus 77 No 1
SUSANI Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet with Nicolò Spera, guitar
DVOŘÁK String Quartet in F Major, Opus 96 “American”
Thursday April 24, 2025 / Ann Arbor, MI
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Opus 54 No. 2
BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135
Saturday, April 26, 2025 / Santa Monica, CA
THE MAESTRO FOUNDATION, with David Requiro, Cello
HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Opus 54 No 2
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No 1
SCHUBERT String Quintet in C Major, D.956 with David Requiro, cello
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 / Washington, DC
KENNEDY CENTER FORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 No 1
BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135