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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…

Release Date: 31st Jan 2005
Catalogue No: 4708492
Label: Decca
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127

Work length35:10

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Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Roger Tapping (viola), András Fejér (cello)
Takács Quartet
Recorded: 2004-05-21
Recording Venue: St. George's, Bristol

1. Maestoso - Allegro

Track length6:44

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2. Adagio ma non troppo e molto cantabile

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3. Scherzando vivace

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4. Finale

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131

Work length38:52

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Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Roger Tapping (viola), András Fejér (cello)
Takács Quartet
Recorded: 2003-11-20
Recording Venue: St. George's, Bristol

1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo

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2. Allegro molto vivace

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3. Allegro moderato

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4. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile - Più mosso - Andante moderato e lusinghiero - Adagio - Allegretto - Adagio, ma non troppo e semplice - Allegretto

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5. Presto

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6. Adagio quasi un poco andante

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7. Allegro

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132

Work length42:44

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Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Roger Tapping (viola), András Fejér (cello)
Takács Quartet
Recorded: 2004-05-21
Recording Venue: St. George's, Bristol

1. Assai sostenuto - Allegro

Track length8:52

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2. Allegro ma non tanto

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3. Heiliger Dankgesang e.Genesenden an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart.Molto adagio -. Andante - Molto adagio - Andante - Molto adagio.

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4. Alla marcia, assai vivace - Più allegro - Presto

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5. Allegro appassionato

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135

Work length24:37

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Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Roger Tapping (viola), András Fejér (cello)
Takács Quartet
Recorded: 2004-07-23
Recording Venue: St. George's, Bristol

1. Allegretto

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2. Vivace

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3. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo

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4. Der schwer gefaßte Entschluß (Grave - Allegro - Grave ma non troppo tratto - Allegro)

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95 'Serioso'

Work length20:28

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Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Roger Tapping (viola), András Fejér (cello)
Takács Quartet
Recorded: 2003-11-20
Recording Venue: St. George's, Bristol

1. Allegro con brio

Track length4:23

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2. Allegretto ma non troppo

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3. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso

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4. Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato

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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130

Work length33:39

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Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Roger Tapping (viola), András Fejér (cello)
Takács Quartet
Recorded: 2004-07-23
Recording Venue: St. George's, Bristol

1. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro

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2. Presto

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3. Andante con moto ma non troppo. Poco scherzando

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4. Alla danza tedesca (Allegro assai)

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5. Cavatina ( Adagio molto espressivo)

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Beethoven: Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 133

Work length14:28

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Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Roger Tapping (viola), András Fejér (cello)
Takács Quartet
Recorded: 2004-07-23
Recording Venue: St. George's, Bristol

Excerpt, Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130

Work length9:19

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Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Roger Tapping (viola), András Fejér (cello)
Takács Quartet
Recorded: 2004-07-23
Recording Venue: St. George's, Bristol

6. Finale (Allegro)

Track length9:19

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September 2022

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.

2010

Interpreters of the late quartets have to convey what at times sounds like a stream of musical consciousness while respecting the many written markings. The Takács do better than most. For openers, they had access to the new Henle Edition and have made use of some textual changes – nothing too drastic but encouraging evidence of a good musical conscience. In Op 130 they take the long first-movement exposition repeat, using the Grosse Fuge as the rightful finale (Beethoven's original intention) which, in the context of their fiery reading of the fugue, works well.
Contemporary incredulity at the sheer scale and complexity of the fugue caused Beethoven to offer a simpler alternative finale, in which they again play the repeat, which helps balance the 'alternative' structure.
The Takács evidently appreciate this music both as musical argument and as sound. Try their glassy sul ponticello at the end of Op 131's Scherzo, or the many instances where plucked and bowed passages are fastidiously balanced.
Attenuated inflections are honoured virtually to the letter, textures carefully differentiated, musical pauses intuitively well-timed and inner voices nearly always transparent.
This set completes one of the best available Beethoven quartet cycles, possibly the finest in an already rich digital market, more probing than the pristine Emersons or Alban Bergs (live), more refined than the gutsy and persuasive Lindsays, and less consciously stylised than the Juilliards (and always with the historic Busch Quartet as an essential reference).

It is impossible to exaggerate the beauty of the tone-colours that these four musicians achieve... If late Beethoven is the Holy Grail of quartet playing, then the Takács Quartet has found it

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