Takács Quartet

Takács Quartet - Schubert: String Quartets D. 112 & 887 (2024) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at May 30, 2024

The 'heavenly lengths' Schumann loved in late Schubert are as much in evidence in the sublime G major quartet as in the other large-scale works of Schubert's final years. The Takacs Quartet's earlier Hyperion recordings of Schubert were hailed as 'near ideal' and 'superlative' and this new release is every bit as fine.

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Takács Quartet - Schubert: String Quartets D. 112 & 887 (2024) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at May 30, 2024

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Takács Quartet, Lawrence Power - Dvořák: String Quartet Op.105, String Quintet Op.97 (2017) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Aug. 26, 2023

The Hungarian-British Takács Quartet is neither Czech nor American nor German, but it conveys the three national strands of these wonderful late Dvorák works as few others have ever done. Buyers interested in these pieces have a selection of top-notch recordings from which to choose, but they are urgently directed to this one.

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Takács Quartet - Haydn: String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & 103 (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 10, 2022

Takács Quartet - Haydn: String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & 103 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 333 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 MB
1:12:42 | Classical | Label: Hyperion

‘Does it need saying that they’re awfully good?’ was The Strad’s rhetorical take on the Takács Quartet’s previous Haydn recordings for Hyperion. With more marvellous Haydn on offer here, it’s a verdict which listeners will certainly share.

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Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin - Ernö Dohnányi: Piano Quintets, String Quartet No.2 (2019) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Feb. 27, 2020

The celebrated partnership of Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet has already set down reference recordings of piano quintets by Schumann, Franck and Shostakovich, and this latest addition is equally illustrious; an important milestone in the critical re-evaluation of the work of Ernő Dohnányi.

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Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 8, 2023

Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) - 273 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 MB
1:07:51 | Classical | Label: Hyperion

If this premiere recording of Stephen Hough’s String Quartet No 1 may be regarded as definitive—the work is dedicated to the Takács Quartet—those of the quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux are no less distinguished.Dedicated ‘à mon cher maître Gabriel Fauré’, Maurice Ravel’s only string quartet was started in 1902. On 30 April that year he had attended the first performance of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and immediately afterwards set about preparing for the Prix de Rome—a prize he was fated never to win despite repeated attempts between 1900 and 1905. In the autumn he undertook a project for a fellow composer, Frederick Delius, who asked him to make a piano–vocal score of the opera Margot la Rouge. He then got to work on the String Quartet, and the first two movements were finished in December 1902, according to Ravel’s note on the last page of the second movement in the autograph score.

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Takács Quartet & Garrick Ohlsson - Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at July 5, 2020

Takács Quartet & Garrick Ohlsson - Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 243 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:03:38
Classical | Label: Hyperion Records

Amy Beach’s piano quintet proved a deservedly popular success in its early years. It makes a compelling—and surprising—match for Elgar’s own piano quintet: a late work contemporary with the cello concerto, and which inhabits the same emotional landscape.

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Takács Quartet, Clarice Assad and Julien Labro - Takács Assad Labro (2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at March 8, 2024

Takács Quartet, Clarice Assad and Julien Labro - Takács Assad Labro (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 242 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 141 MB
53:55 | Classical | Label: Yarlung Records

My friend Clarice Assad called me out of the blue a few months after our album Confessions earned a GRAMMY® nomination. Clarice had written the title tracks on the album, which Laura Strickling sang magnificently. “Bob,” Clarice said, “I have an idea….” I have learned that anytime Clarice has an idea, I’m interested. “I wrote a piece for Takács Quartet and bandoneón virtuoso Julien Labro. It’s a wild piece. The five of them have been performing it all over the world on tour, and I think you would like it. Actually, I know you would like it. Julien also wrote a companion piece, and the third work is by Bryce Dessner. I think you know Bryce; he lives in Paris. What a trio!” I responded that it sounded wonderful. “I want you to record these three works, plus another piece I have in mind for violin and piano. When can we do it?” Hence began one of Yarlung’s most adventurous (and I hope you will agree, successful) collaborations in the label’s nineteen year history.

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Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 31, 2024

If this premiere recording of Stephen Hough’s String Quartet No 1 may be regarded as definitive—the work is dedicated to the Takács Quartet—those of the quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux are no less distinguished.

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Takács Quartet - Dvořák: String Quartet Op 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at July 27, 2023

Takács Quartet - Dvořák: String Quartet Op 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 272 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 150 MB
1:03:48 | Classical | Label: Hyperion

Dvořák's mature string quartets are masterly, all brimming with life-enhancing music, and Op 106 is no exception. The Takács Quartet gives superlative accounts of both this and the apt coupling by a young Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. 'These are both powerful, brilliantyly imagined interpretations, painted in bold, rich colours and shaped with flashing virtuosity.' (Gramophone) ' You will not hear better string quartet playing anywhere in the world today. (BBC Music Magazine). 'It's the highest-quality Haydn' (BBC Record Review).

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