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06/11/2008

Tom Service presents the Takacs Quartet performing music by Mozart, Bartok and Schumann in a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

Tom Service presents a concert given at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, featuring the Takacs Quartet in works from three of the composers for which they are best known. Their programme includes Bartok's Second Quartet, a relative rarity on the concert platform, and which is influenced by the music of Debussy.

Takacs Quartet

Mozart: String Quartet in D, K575
Bartok: String Quartet No 2
Schumann: String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3

Followed by the fourth in this week's Schumann Focus:

Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op 16
Evgenia Rubinova (piano)
Recorded 2007 in a concert in Bremen by German Radio

Schumann: Lieder Op.31 nos. 1 & 2
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
DG 445 881-2
track: 11-12

Schumann: Lied; Op.101/4, Op.79/26, Lied Op.37/9
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
DG 445 881-2
track: 24, 25 & 28

2 hours, 15 minutes

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Thu 6 Nov 2008 19:00

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  • Thu 6 Nov 2008 19:00