Master and String Quartet

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
"You can't imagine what it is like to hear such a giant's footsteps constantly behind one," Brahms complained about Beethoven, that master of the string quartet. An impassioned performance by the Takács Quartet of the String Quartet in C Minor—the first Brahms permitted to be published—reveals a rigor and resolve worthy of his predecessor along with evident mastery of the form. Haydn's Violin Concerto No. 3 in A also delights us, as Simon Standage fiddles along with The English Concert..
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