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50 years of the Takács Quartet

2024-09-13T09:02:00

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As the Takács Quartet celebrates its 50th birthday, its members talk to Pauline Harding about the ensemble’s legacy, the intangible ‘fifth spirit’ that has shaped its character even as its players have changed over the decades, and the importance of teaching and other projects and challenges

Four very different characters walk on to London’s Wigmore Hall stage. They are the members of the Takács Quartet, and as they dive into Haydn’s String Quartet in D minor op.42, Dvořák’s String Quartet in E flat major op.51 and an encore of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s ‘Humoresque’ from Fantasiestücke op.5, their individual personas shine through in every phrase…

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