chamber arts society

The CAS’s 65th season assembles the most distinguished names in chamber music—Emerson, Takacs, Pacifica, Opus One—in programs that pair brave new music with the most arresting scores ever written. Season subscriptions is available.

Takács Quartet
Saturday, March 12, 2011 | 8:00 pm
Reynolds Industries Theater
$30 • Duke Students $5

Sold Out. Waiting list starts at 7p on Mar 12.

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General admission; doors open a half hour before showtime.

"The fact is," says the Guardian (UK), "they are peerless": formed at Budapest in 1975, the Takács is now widely recognized as one of the premiere string quartets of our time. Virtuosic and inspired, they approach their music with a rapturous intensity that has made them a fixture on the Chamber Arts Society calendar for more than a decade. This season they offer vital readings of Haydn, Schubert, and Bartók, the Hungarian folk-genius with whom the Takács share a special connection.

PROGRAM:
HAYDN: String Quartet No. 54 in G Minor, Op. 74, No. 3, "Rider"
BARTOK: String Quartet No. 5
SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, "Rosamunde"

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"The Takács have the ability to make you believe that there’s no other possible way the music should go."
—Gramophone

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