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I attended some of these sessions and can still recall the forensic care and commitment the Takács brought to these works. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2017 More…

The Takács plough very deep furrows, emotionally and intellectually, but they also understand the paradoxical humour that’s essential to the spirituality of this music. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022 More…

The Takács do a fine job here: controlled, well paced and impeccably balanced.
They manage to balance the music's vertical and horizontal aspects beautifully, long-breathed contrapuntal lines... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The interpretation and performance are as good as their reputations would lead you to hope ... they play together very well indeed. In the page of Adagio which opens the "Kreutzer", Perlman... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Robert Simpson disagreed with writers who believed that Beethoven's backward glances to Haydn and Mozart in his Op 18 set were so obvious as to distract attention from his own individuality.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Although Beethoven designated these works as 'for piano and violin', following Mozart's example, it's unlikely that he thought of the piano as leading the proceedings, or the violin either,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…