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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.

Bartók used folk music to find his own voice as a composer of classical music. He roamed the Balkans, north Africa and the Middle East to rediscover models of what was really music to his ears, much in the same spirit as Picasso and others searched out models of primitive representations to refresh what we see.

Les Diotima ne se sont pas fait la partie belle : quel pari exorbitant que de vouloir jouer en une seule soirée l’intégrale des Quatuors de Bartók ! D’aucuns auraient pensé que ce qu’ont tenté les quatre musiciens était perdu d’avance...

Unter dem Titel Das Bartók-Projekt spielte das Jerusalem Quartett an drei Abenden alle sechs Streichquartette von Béla Bartók im kleinen Saal der Laeiszhalle. Stefan Pillhofer berichtet vom letzten Konzertabend mit den Quartetten Nr. 5 und 6.