Saturday, September 5, 2026
Takács Quartet: Edward Dusinberre, violin, Mihai Marica, cello, Harumi Rhodes, violin, Richard O'Neill, viola
The Olivier Music Barn, 11:00 AM
Program
JOSEPH HAYDN: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2
Moderato
Capriccio. Adagio – Cantabile
Minuet. Allegretto – Trio
Fuga a 4 soggetti. Allegro
FRANZ SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"
Allegro
Andante con moto
Scherzo. Allegro molto
Presto
Takács Quartet
In recognition of its fiftieth anniversary, the world-renowned Takács Quartet was recently profiled by the New York Times and featured on the cover of Strad magazine. The Takács released two anniversary-season albums in 2025 for Hyperion Records to glowing reviews. In August 2025, for Musica Viva in Australia, the ensemble performed a new work, Sonnet of an Emigrant, for quartet and narrator by Cathy Milliken with texts by Bertolt Brecht.
Recent and upcoming performances throughout the United States include Mozart viola quintets with Jordan Bak and a new string quartet, NEXUS, by Clarice Assad, co-commissioned by leading concert organizations throughout North America.
The Takács Quartet enjoys a busy international touring schedule. As associate artists at London’s Wigmore Hall, the group presented four concerts featuring works by Haydn, Assad, Debussy, and Beethoven, as well as two Mozart viola quintets with Timothy Ridout that were recorded for Hyperion.
Formed in 1975 at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Takács Quartet received international attention in 1977, winning first prize and the critics’ prize at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France. Members of the quartet are grateful to be the beneficiaries of an instrument loan by the Drake Foundation, and grateful to be Thomastik-Infeld Artists.
Moderato
Capriccio. Adagio – Cantabile
Minuet. Allegretto – Trio
Fuga a 4 soggetti. Allegro
FRANZ SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"
Allegro
Andante con moto
Scherzo. Allegro molto
Presto
Takács Quartet
In recognition of its fiftieth anniversary, the world-renowned Takács Quartet was recently profiled by the New York Times and featured on the cover of Strad magazine. The Takács released two anniversary-season albums in 2025 for Hyperion Records to glowing reviews. In August 2025, for Musica Viva in Australia, the ensemble performed a new work, Sonnet of an Emigrant, for quartet and narrator by Cathy Milliken with texts by Bertolt Brecht.
Recent and upcoming performances throughout the United States include Mozart viola quintets with Jordan Bak and a new string quartet, NEXUS, by Clarice Assad, co-commissioned by leading concert organizations throughout North America.
The Takács Quartet enjoys a busy international touring schedule. As associate artists at London’s Wigmore Hall, the group presented four concerts featuring works by Haydn, Assad, Debussy, and Beethoven, as well as two Mozart viola quintets with Timothy Ridout that were recorded for Hyperion.
Formed in 1975 at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Takács Quartet received international attention in 1977, winning first prize and the critics’ prize at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France. Members of the quartet are grateful to be the beneficiaries of an instrument loan by the Drake Foundation, and grateful to be Thomastik-Infeld Artists.