The Takács Quartet have the mainstream Austro-Germanic repertory as their sweet spot, but they excel in this French program that contains a highly personal example of the late Romantic style and the first stirrings of modernism. The Piano Quintet in F minor, M7, of César Franck, is right up the Takács' alley, for it depends on coordination of a large-scale harmonic structure. That structure is deployed in the service of passionate and even erotic ends, with the outer movements depicting a kind of disorientation that ...
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The Takács Quartet have the mainstream Austro-Germanic repertory as their sweet spot, but they excel in this French program that contains a highly personal example of the late Romantic style and the first stirrings of modernism. The Piano Quintet in F minor, M7, of César Franck, is right up the Takács' alley, for it depends on coordination of a large-scale harmonic structure. That structure is deployed in the service of passionate and even erotic ends, with the outer movements depicting a kind of disorientation that audiences at the time (including the dedicatee, pianist Camille Saint-Saëns, who stalked off the stage at the end of the piece) correctly read as hinting at an extramarital affair. The Takács capture the wondrous instability of this work, which is unlike anything else in the chamber repertory, and pianist Marc-André Hamelin, who can be virtuosic without fireworks, provides a perfect foil, seeming almost to graze the keys to make them sound. The early String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10, of...
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