Takács Quartet – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonBartók's string quartets have been at the very heart of the Takács Quartet's repertory since the group was founded in Budapest in 1975, and it was a recording of those works that really put their name on the international map in the late 1990s. Alongside the Beethoven quartets, Bartók's have remained the Takács' signature works, and a cycle of them made a natural addition to the Philharmonia's survey of the composer's orchestral music, for nothing defines the traj...

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