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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartets in B flat & C minor Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jul/2009 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2009: Chamber --'Their approach is alert, texturally clear and passionate … These are admriable performances which I recommend to any prospective buyer … this new Takács reading weighs in at the top end of the many available... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 71 1-3 Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] In these compelling interpretations the Takács Quartet display an absolute unanimity of tone and style and cement their reputation as one of today's greatest string quartets. |
JOSEF HAYDN
String Quartets, Op. 74 1-3 Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] These quartets date from 1793 and were written when Haydn returned home to Vienna after a visit to London which had cemented his international fame as a composer and public figure. The composer wrote a set of six string quartets for Count Anton... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quintet / String Quartet D703 Takacs Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "Their performance, with Ralph Kirshbaum fitting effortlessly into the ensemble as second cellist, is never conceived as a reassuring tour around one of western music's supreme achievements. There's always an undertow of unease...It's a formidably... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quintets in B flat & C minor Takacs Quartet, Laurence Power (viola) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jul/2009 ] The Takács Quartet have been recently described as 'one of the world's most distinguished ensembles'. Here they collaborate with Britain's greatest living viola player, Lawrence Power, who with his long association with The Nash Ensemble among others... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: String Quartet No 14 & String Quintet No 3 "American" Takacs Quartet, Lawrence Power (viola) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] "a Bohemian fertility of sound that makes us relish the Takacs' fluid ensemble, which would seem to include how much each of the musicians remains fascinated by his colleagues" AudAud Best of the year 2017 |
STEPHEN HOUGH / HENRI DUTILLEUX / MAURICE RAVEL
Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] "This recording really is a joy from start to finish...the Takács Quartet are alive to every inflection in Ravel's meticulously marked score..Above all, Stephen Hough's is an unmistakably individual and convincing voice." BBC Music Five Stars Feb 201 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Felix's impassioned F minor quartet was the fiercely personal response to his sister's death in 1847, only a few months before his own. The Takács Quartet frame it with equally committed accounts of a much earlier work. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets D112 & 887 Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/May/2024 ] The 'heavenly lengths' Schumann loved in late Schubert are as much in evidence in the sublime G major quartet as in the other large-scale works of Schubert's final years. The Takács Quartet's earlier Hyperion recordings of Schubert were hailed as... |
SMETANA / JANACEK
String Quartets Takács Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] A second new album this year from the much-fêted Takács Quartet presents three popular string quartets from Czechoslovakia. Janáček's two quartets share with Smetana's No 1 narrative undercurrents, and draw from our four players performances of... |
EDWARD ELGAR / AMY BEACH
Elgar & Beach: Piano Quintets Takács Quartet, Garrick Ohlsson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] BBC Music Award Nomination 2021 - Chamber / GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Chamber |
ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets & String Quartet No 2 Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "...They allow every passionate detail to come across yet preserve a sense of nobility and innate grace that I always associate with Dohnányi." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Chamber |
CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14 (with Debussy - String Quartet in G minor) Takács Quartet, with Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Jun/2016 ] Franck's Piano Quintet and Debussy's String Quartet make an apt and unusual coupling, each work its composer's only, unsurpassable, contribution to the genre. Both receive authoritative performances from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet.. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet / String Quartet No. 2 Takács Quartet, with Marc-André Hamelin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Apr/2015 ] "Right from the very first bar I felt that these were going to be fine performances of these two Shostakovich works. The first movement of Quartet No.2 is played with vigour and forward thrust." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2015) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartet / Piano Quintet Takacs Quartet with Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] 'The Takács Quartet bring a huge sense of enjoyment to both the Piano Quintet and the String Quartet Op 51 No 2, and it's clear that this chamber music is being revelled in by its players as much as its listeners. Stephen Hough's playing -... |
PAGANINI
24 Caprices Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] 'A sparkling, cleaned-up version of Paganini, sounding the more amazing for its polish and clarity, and bringing into focus the poetic, romantic sensibility that enthralled the composer's contemporaries.' Editor's Choice Gramophone May 2009 |
BUSONI / RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concertos Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Garry Walker [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto 16 / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender returns to the Romantic Violin Concerto series having dazzled the critics with her 'great lyrical force and tremendous sense of drama' in her recording of the Reger concerto. Here she appears with Hyperion house... |
MAX REGER
Reger: Violin Concerto in A / Two Romances Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) / Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 11 / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] "it's one of [Reger's] most heart-warming works, allowing his intensely lyrical streak free rein...Aided by first-rate orchestral playing, [Zagrosek] finds transparency in Reger's original" BBC Music Five Stars |
RESPIGHI
Violin works {incls violin sonatas) Tanja Becker-Bender (violin) Peter Nagy (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "a revelatory programme, performed with rare panache." Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 |
FRIEDRICH KALKBRENNER
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra / Howard Shelley (piano & conductor) [ Hyperion Great Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 41 / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] 'Kalkbrenner's First Concerto offers a truly beautiful and atmospheric slow movement...it would be a boring world if we couldn't find an hour to listen to these musical layer cakes from a bygone age' (Pianist: Recommended) |
