Dvořák: String Quartet Op 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke

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The Takács are impressive on this album: every microphrase, every note is considered. Their sound draws you in from the first moment...To simultaneously hear the separate parts and the collective... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2023 More…

Release Date: 7th Jul 2023
Catalogue No: CDA68413
Label: Hyperion
Length: 63 minutes

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Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke (5), Op 5

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Takács Quartet

I. Prelude: Allegro ma non troppo

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II. Serenade: Andante molto

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III. Humoresque: Presto

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IV. Minuet and Trio: Allegro moderato

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V. Dance: Vivace

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Dvořák: String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106 (B192)

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Takács Quartet

I. Allegro moderato

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II. Adagio ma non troppo

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III. Molto vivace

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IV. Finale: Andante sostenuto – Allegro con fuoco

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Dvořák: Andante appassionato in F major, B. 40a

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Takács Quartet

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Recording of the Week, Coleridge-Taylor and Dvořák from the Takács Quartet

4th August 2023

The Takács Quartet present a double-bill of works from the year 1895: a youthful Coleridge-Taylor, barely into his twenties but already carving out a distinctive style, and a mature Dvořák, recently returned to his beloved Bohemia from the New World.

Dvořák's mature string quartets are masterly, all brimming with life-enhancing music, and Op 106 is no exception.

The Takács Quartet gives superlative accounts of both this and the apt coupling by a young Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Hough, Dutillieux & Ravel String Quartets CDA68400

'These are both powerful, brilliantyly imagined interpretations, painted in bold, rich colours and shaped with flashing virtuosity.' (Gramophone)

Joseph Haydn String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & 103 CDA68364

' You will not hear better string quartet playing anywhere in the world today.

(BBC Music Magazine)

'It's the highest-quality Haydn' (BBC Record Review)

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September 2023

The Takács are impressive on this album: every microphrase, every note is considered. Their sound draws you in from the first moment...To simultaneously hear the separate parts and the collective so beautifully is a treat indeed.

4th August 2023

Despite both being for string quartet, both from the same year and indeed sharing a great many stylistic features, the Coleridge-Taylor and Dvořák pieces here are still as different as chalk and cheese; youthful energy contrasting with mature retrospection, perhaps. But as a diptych they work perfectly, and the Takács Quartet are equally at home in both.

The New York Times 31st August 2023

While the group’s tone isn’t overly mellow or smoothed, this is a distinctly rich, sunset-afterglow take on late Romanticism...Most memorable is the spiderlike, even eerie wispiness that the Takacs achieves in muted passages.

Dvořák: String Quartet Op 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke

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Recording of the Week, Coleridge-Taylor and Dvořák from the Takács Quartet

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