Winners of the
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2021, Chamber category, the world-renowned Takács Quartet is now entering its 47th season. In 2014, the Takács became the first string quartet to be awarded the Wigmore Hall Medal and, in 2012,
Gramophone announced that the Takács was the first string quartet to be inducted into its Hall of Fame.
Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, proclaimed by
The New York Times “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs.” Winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, he has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Program
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F Major, op. 7, no. 2, Hob. III:82
Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat Major
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat Major, op. 44
Estimated Concert Length: 1st half: 46 minutes - 20 minutes intermission - 2nd half: 54 minutes
Program Notes