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Haydn, Tackacs Quartet
String Quartets, Opus 76
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Str Qt in G, op.76 no.1: Allegro con spirito
2. Str Qt in G, op.76 no.1: Adagio sostenuto
3. Str Qt in G, op.76 no.1: Menuetto: Presto
4. Str Qt in G, op.76 no.1: Allegro ma non troppo
5. Str Qt in d, op.76 no.2 'Fifths': Allegro
6. Str Qt in d, op.76 no.2 'Fifths': Andante o piu tosto allegretto
7. Str Qt in d, op.76 no.2 'Fifths': Menuetto: Allegro ma non troppo
8. Str Qt in d, op.76 no.2 'Fifths': Vivace assai
9. Str Qt in C, op.76 no.3 'Emperor': Allegro
10. Str Qt in C, op.76 no.3 'Emperor': Poco adagio, cantabile
11. Str Qt in C, op.76 no.3 'Emperor': Menuetto: Allegro
12. Str Qt in C, op.76 no.3 'Emperor': Finale: Presto

CD Details

All Artists: Haydn, Tackacs Quartet
Title: String Quartets, Opus 76
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Polygram Records
Release Date: 10/25/1990
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028942136021

Synopsis

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With his late string quartets, Haydn's mastery of convention had grown to the point where his imagination was utterly unfettered, illustrating Robert Frost's famous dictum that "freedom is working easy in harness." On these 1987 and 1988 recordings, the Takacs Quartet, a flamboyant ensemble founded in 1975, plays the six Opus 76 essays in that spirit. Their highly profiled accounts possess exceptional expressive intensity but are always in good taste. Fittingly, these more public expressions of Haydn's genius have been captured in reverberant spaces--the Schubertsaal of Vienna's Konzerthaus for Nos. 1-3, and St. Barnabas's in London for the final three--in recordings of striking, in-your-face presence. --Ted Libbey

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CD Reviews

Gateway to classical music

Ben Pines | 06/24/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As a listener more frequently of pop music by artists like the Beatles and Beach Boys, I was surprised to find how much I was moved by this recording. The music is vigorous, economical, and witty; the performance passionate; and the recording superb. The introductory three note tag to the first piece grabs you, and the rest holds you. I have this album around for the times when I get too tired of the mechanical simplicity of pop music."