Takács Quartet – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonAfter devoting their London appearances last season to Beethoven, the Takács Quartet's three Southbank recitals in the current term range much more widely. Their second emulated the basic outline of the first, two months ago: a quartet from Haydn's Op 71 set was followed by major 20th- and 19th-century works, in this case by Bartók and Smetana.Later this year, the Takács are giving a complete cycle of the Bartók quartets in conjunction with the Philharmonia's surv...

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