Takács Quartet

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.