Takács Quartet - review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonBeethoven last year, Bartók next. But there are no themes or cycles for the Takács's London visits this season. Instead, their Southbank concerts simply pick plums from the string quartet repertoire. Haydn's Op 71 quartets were the first that the composer wrote for the concert hall. The third in the set opens with an arrestingly bold chord of E flat, rather like Beethoven's Eroica, also in the same key. It's as if Haydn is saying: "Listen, world, here's what you've ...

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