Performance on 3 - 06/11/2008

Tom Service presents a concert given at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, featuring the Takacs Quartet in works from three of the composers for which they are best known. Their programme includes Bartok's Second Quartet, a relative rarity on the concert platform, and which is influenced by the music of Debussy. Takacs Quartet Mozart: String Quartet in D, K575 Bartok: String Quartet No 2 Schumann: String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3 Followed by the fourth in this week's Schumann Focus: Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op 16 Evgenia Rubinova (piano) Recorded 2007 in a concert in Bremen by German Radio Schumann: Lieder Op.31 nos. 1 & 2 Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) Bengt Forsberg (piano) DG 445 881-2 track: 11-12 Schumann: Lied; Op.101/4, Op.79/26, Lied Op.37/9 Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) Bengt Forsberg (piano) DG 445 881-2 track: 24, 25 & 28