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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 

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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. 

Takács Quartet Biography 
Tak
ás Quartet Website
Recent Reviews

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 HamelinThe 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.  

 

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