Celebrity Series at Home: Takács Quartet

The Takács Quartet, now entering its forty-fifth season, is renowned for the vitality of its interpretations. The New York Times recently lauded the ensemble for “revealing the familiar as unfamiliar, making the most traditional of works feel radical once more.”

The performance features works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, an early-20th-century English composer and activist of European and African descent who was widely acclaimed in his time on both sides of the Atlantic.

Program:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from String Quartet in D minor, K. 421

I. Allegro moderato

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, from Five Fantasiestücke, Opus 5

I. Prelude
III. Humoresque

Béla Bartók, from String Quartet No. 1, Sz. 40

III. (Introduzione.) Allegro – Allegro vivace

Claude Debussy, from String Quartet in G minor, Opus 10

III. Andantino, doucement expressif
IV. Très modéré

Tickets: $20