Presto Recordings of the Year
Finalist 2023

International Classical Music Awards
2024
Nominated - Chamber Music

Gramophone Magazine
Critics' Choice 2023

Takács Quartet

Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke (5), Op 5
Dvořák: String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106 (B192)
Dvořák: Andante appassionato in F major, B. 40a

Dvořák's mature string quartets are masterly, all brimming with life-enhancing music, and Op 106 is no exception.

The Takács Quartet gives superlative accounts of both this and the apt coupling by a young Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Hough, Dutillieux & Ravel String Quartets CDA68400

'These are both powerful, brilliantyly imagined interpretations, painted in bold, rich colours and shaped with flashing virtuosity.' (Gramophone)

Joseph Haydn String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & 103 CDA68364

' You will not hear better string quartet playing anywhere in the world today.

(BBC Music Magazine)

'It's the highest-quality Haydn' (BBC Record Review)

"The Takács are impressive on this album: every microphrase, every note is considered. Their sound draws you in from the first moment...To simultaneously hear the separate parts and the collective so beautifully is a treat indeed." - Gramophone Magazine, September 2023