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Takács Quartet
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The Takács Quartet is a string quartet, originally founded in Hungary, and now based in Boulder, Colorado, United States. In 1975, four students at the Music Academy in Budapest, Gabor Takács-Nagy (first violin), Károly Schranz (second violin), Gabor Ormai (viola), and András Fejér (cello) formed The Takács Quartet. According to their own story, Takács-Nagy, Ormai and Fejér had been playing trios together for several months when they met Schranz during a pickup soccer game after classes. With the immediate addition of Károly to their group the trio became a quartet. They first received international attention in 1977, winning the First Prize and the Critics' Prize at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France. After that the quartet won the Gold Medal at the 1979 Portsmouth and Bordeaux Competitions and First Prizes at the Budapest International String Quartet Competition in 1978 and the Bratislava Competition in 1981. The quartet made its first North American tour in 1982. In 1983, the group decided it would be best for them and their families if they moved to the United States. A colleague offered them a position as quartet-in-residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and they accepted the job. In 1993, Takács-Nagy left the group, and the British violinist Edward Dusinberre replaced him. In 1994, Ormai learned that he had incurable cancer, and was replaced by another British musician, violist Roger Tapping. Following these changes, the quarte
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Dvořák: Andante appassionato in F Major, B. 40a
5542String Quartet No.16 in F, Op.135 - 3. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo
39132. Dumka (Andante con moto)
3624Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 - 4. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai
3515Bartók: String Quartet No.1, Sz. 40 (Op.7) - 1. Lento
28961. Allegro
2647String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91: III. Non troppo lento
1688Mozart: String Quintet No.2 in C, K.515 - 4. (Allegro)
1659String Quartet No. 1, Sz. 40, I. Lento
16510Borodin: String Quartet No.2 in D - 3. Notturno
143albums
Schubert: Trout Quintet / Wolf: Italian Serenade / Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Ravel, Dutilleux & Hough: String Quartets
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Dvořák & Price: Piano Quintets
Borodin/Smetana: String Quartet No.2/String Quartet No.1 "From My Life"
Dvořák: String Quartet, Op. 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets
Bartók: The String Quartets
Beethoven: The Late String Quartets
Beethoven: String Quartets Vol.3
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Dvorák: Piano Quintet in A/String Quartet No.10
Mozart: String Quintet Nos. 2 & 3, K.515 & K.516
Bartók: The 6 String Quartets