Details

Part of Southbank Centre’s International Chamber Music Season, Associated Artists the Takács Quartet returns to the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the first of three concerts this season. After its survey of the complete Beethoven Quartets last season, described in the Guardian as 'chamber-music playing of overwhelming intensity, insight and intelligence,' the Takács Quartet revisits three contrasting master works of the chamber music repertoire - Shostakovich's Second String Quartet, Haydn’s String Quartet in E flat Op.71 No. 3, and Mendelssohn’s exuberant Second Quartet, written when the composer was only 18