Takács Quartet (Digital 2021)

This performance was recorded at the Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado and premieres on Sunday, October 25 at 7:00 PM.  All ticket holders are also welcome to watch multiple times On Demand through Wednesday, October 28 at 7:00 PM.

Will feature a live Q&A session with the performers immediately following the concert.

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 Quartet makes its Celebrity Series streaming debut from Boulder, Colorado. 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

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An Aaron Richmond Recital

Additional support provided by Drs. Margaret & Michael Simon.

This performance is presented in appreciation of the many donors to the LIVE PERFORMANCE! Arts for All Capital Campaign.

Arts Society Members ($500) and above are invited to join us for a pre-performance Virtual Patron Lounge. An official announcement will follow. Learn more about our Member Events.