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At the Cleveland Chamber Music Society, the Takács Quartet collaborates with Marc-André Hamelin in works by Price and Dvořák. 

The Takács Quartet performed quartets by Beethoven and Mozart with insight and energy. Pianist Jeremy Denk joined the ensemble in Dohnányi’s lushly romantic Piano Quintet.

The Takács Quartet’s memorable performance was anchored by Grieg’s less-trodden string quartet, prefaced by works of Haydn and Shostakovich.

Mozart, Dvořák and Dohnányi takes listeners at the Edinburgh Festival from Prussia to Hungary. 

The Takács Quartet and friends pair string sextets by Tchaikovsky and Brahms at Wigmore Hall.

The Takács Quartet proved once more that among the long-established American quartets they are, arguably, the most reliable.

The Takács Quartet approaches every work with fresh eyes and enthusiasm even if it is their hundredth performance

Three Beethoven string quartets were given the Takács Quartet treatment, showing characteristic passion and insight, including the emotionally exhausting A minor quartet, Op. 132.

A monumental recital of passionate classics from some members of classical music's royalty, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

In honour of Schubert’s 218th birthday, Wigmore Hall decided to invite celebrated associate artists the Takács Quartet to perform a selection of the composer’s works for string quartet. 

The Takács Quartet in an engaging programme of works referencing murderous marital strife, life-threatening illness and recovery – and less harrowing inspirations.

For the enthusiastic crowd that called the Takács Quartet back for multiple bows, Bartók will never sound quite the same again.

An astonishing performance of the Bartók string quartets by the Takács Quartet in Cleveland left our reviewer, Tim hard pressed to imagine better. The players found moments of beauty in these difficult works.

Dvořák filters the New World through lenses from the old, while Janáček explores jealousy and suspicion in a Wigmore Hall programme from the Takács Quartet.

Johannes Brahms and his music have a reputation for being somewhat meaty, and so an English Sunday afternoon seems an appropriate time to hear two of his chamber works side by side.

Each time I hear the Takács Quartet in concert a new excellence comes through: this time it is their gentleness. Schubert’s String Quartet in A minor, “Rosamunde” is allowed to unfold gently, as the petals of a rose open themselves.

A full house at St George’s was spoilt with some seriously fantastic music in this concert. String quartets don’t come much better than the Takács Quartet. Versatile, passionate, and technically very accurate, there was a real quality of care that went into their performance.

This was a short BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, but a very good one. Of course, nothing less would be expected from the Takács Quartet, who surely have a very good claim to be the world's foremost string quartet. Even if only for a sold-out hour, all the characteristics which make them great were amply on show here.

Classical music is the last thing one would expect to find behind the historic Village gate at (Le) Poisson Rouge. Don’t let the venue fool you; (Le) Poisson Rouge regularly plays host to a myriad of performers. Thursday night, it was the Takács Quartet.