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Takacs Quartet

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The Takács Quartet’s connection with Musica Viva now spans three decades, with each tour garnering more acclaim than the one before. As our audiences have long suspected, this tour finds them hailed at last as ‘the greatest string quartet in the world’.

The Quartet’s programs have as their centrepieces two pre-eminent works of the repertoire. Schubert’s majestic fifteenth quartet is joined by Janácek’s Intimate Letters (which circles obsessively around the composer’s unhealthy passion for his young, erstwhile mistress) and Richard Mills’ tautly constructed romantic fantasies. In the second program, Beethoven’s third ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet is balanced by the Classical elegance of late Haydn and a new work by acclaimed Scottish composer James McMillan, commissioned for the Takács Quartet.

Edward Dusinberre violin
Károly Schranz violin
Geraldine Walther viola
András Fejér cello