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Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets
Takács Quartet
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
The Takács Quartet has sustained an admiring following through its changes of personnel down the years, and their exceptional precision of tuning and ensemble, especially at full-tilt Mendelssohnian...
Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets
Takács Quartet
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
The Takács Quartet has sustained an admiring following through its changes of personnel down the years, and their exceptional precision of tuning and ensemble, especially at full-tilt Mendelssohnian...
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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, and Fanny’s own important contribution to the genre.
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String Quartets by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn from the Takács Quartet
12th Nov 2021
Fiery, dramatic performances from the Takács Quartet of two string quartets by Felix Mendelssohn alongside a thrilling account of the quartet by his sister, Fanny.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week12th November 2021
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinner 2021
Christmas 2021
The Takács Quartet has sustained an admiring following through its changes of personnel down the years, and their exceptional precision of tuning and ensemble, especially at full-tilt Mendelssohnian pace, remains as impressive as ever. But there is also an insistent dryness to the collective sound.
November 2021
Deploying their familiar finesse (immaculate tuning and ensemble) and care for detail, the Takács do brother and sister proud.
12th November 2021
It almost goes without saying but alongside the Takács Quartet's customarily impeccable ensemble playing are some incredibly arresting individual moments, not least from relative newcomer to the quartet, violist Richard O'Neill, who more than demonstrates why he was picked to join the group last year...for me this album is a definite winner.
