If this premiere recording of Stephen Hough’s String Quartet No 1 may be regarded as definitive—the work is dedicated to the Takács Quartet—those of the quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux are no less distinguished.
‘Dutilleux’s nocturne seems to have a uniquely liberating effect on an ensemble’s imagination, and the Takács Quartet have also made it the heart of a programme designed to be heard at one sitting, op ...
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‘The Takács Quartet began its recording career in Hungary in the early 1980s. Has it really taken almost forty years for them to get round to Maurice Ravel’s quartet? It has. It’s been worth the wait… ...
BBC Music Magazine‘The Takács Quartet began its recording career in Hungary in the early 1980s. Has it really taken almost forty years for them to get round to Maurice Ravel’s quartet? It has. It’s been worth the wait… ...