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Takacs Quartet - Bartok String Quartets

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Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Live from The Queen Elizabeth Hall

The Takacs Quartet plays Bartok String Quartets

One of the great string quartets of our time perform three quartets by the Hungarian master. Spanning the composer's creative maturity, the quartets chart the inner workings of Bartok's mind in all its complexity, humour, desolation and nocturnal beauty.

Bartok: String Quartet No.1
Bartok: String Quartet No.3

8.15pm Music Interval

Bartok: String Quartet No. 5

Takacs Quartet.

Music and featured items

8 items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Takacs Quartet

    • 00:00
      Artist Image for Béla Bartók

      Béla Bartók Quartet no. 1 Sz.40 for strings

      Performer: Takacs String Quartet

    • 00:29
      Artist Image for Béla Bartók

      Béla Bartók Quartet no. 3 Sz.85 for strings

      Performer: Takacs String Quartet

  • Music Interval

  • 00:44
    Artist Image for Béla Bartók

    Béla Bartók In the Valley [from 5 Songs Sz.61, Op.15 for voice and piano]

    Performer: Ilona PRUNYI - Piano Performer: Julia HAMARI - Mezzo-soprano

    HUNGAROTON, HCD-31535, 5

  • 00:47
    Artist Image for Béla Bartók

    Béla Bartók The Night's Music [from Out of doors - suite Sz.81 for piano]

    Performer: Jeno JANDO - Piano

    NAXOS, 8.558-20001, 4

  • 00:52
    Artist Image for Zoltán Kodály

    Zoltán Kodály Hegyi ejszakak [Mountain nights] - 5 songs without words for female chorus

    Conductor: Miklos SZABO Performer: Gyor Girls' Chorus

    HUNGAROTON, HCD-12948, 11

  • 00:58
    Artist Image for Béla Bartók

    Béla Bartók Non troppo lento [from Quartet no. 4 Sz.91 for strings]

    Performer: Takacs String Quartet

    HUNGAROTON, HCD-12502-04, 2-5

  • Takacs Quartet

    • 00:44
      Artist Image for Béla Bartók

      Béla Bartók Quartet no. 5 Sz.102 for strings

      Performer: Takacs String Quartet

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