Takács Quartet/Cooper/Mitchell - review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonIt is not easy to specify which quality, exactly, is responsible for the Takács Quartet's current pre-eminence. I can think of other ensembles with a greater unity of tone, others better disposed to plumb the depths of well-known scores, and still others – though not many – who play with greater energy. And yet every time one is blown away by the rightness and freshness of everything they do. Their feeling for rhythm and gesture, above all, is both so intuitive ...

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