We would like to inform our audience that according to the government decision effective from 11 November 2020, no public events can be held, so we are unable to hold concerts at the Liszt Academy with an audience. However, our audience will not be left without a concert experience, as most of our performances will be held and broadcast online in our Digital Concert Hall, and most of the concerts of the orchestras organizing concert series at the Liszt Academy will also be available online.
3 November 2019, 19.30-22.00
Grand Hall
Four by Four
Takács Quartet 
Presented by Liszt Academy
Haydn: String Quartet No. 32 in C major, Hob. III:39 (‘Bird’)
Bartók: String Quartet No. 6, BB 119
intermission
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Takács Quartet: Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violin), Geraldine Walther (viola), András Fejér (cello)
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor is an important work from Mendelssohn’s late teenage years, composed not solely under the influence of Haydn’s works – like Mozart’s quartets had been before – which were considered as the gold standard, but with cutting edge reflections to Beethoven’s late string quartets as well. String Quartet No. 6 is Bartók’s final recapitulation of his works in this genre and also the last work he completed in Europe before emigrating to the United States with his wife. Like Bartók, four former graduates of the Liszt Academy has been leaving for the United States to form the chamber ensemble in residence at the University of Colorado in 1983. After second violinist Károly Schranz’s leaving in 2018, András Fejér became the only original member of the quartet founded in 1975. This will be their first concert in Budapest in their current lineup.
The concert is followed by CODA – which is an informal conversation with the performers.
Presented by
Liszt Academy Concert Centre
Tickets:
HUF 1 200, 1 700, 2 800, 3 900