“There is no finer ensemble in the world, expressively and technically,” than the Takács Quartet (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Their annual PCMS concert—and first with new Romanian-born cellist Mihai Marica—features Gabriela Lena Frank’s folk-music-inspired Quijotadas, based on the story of Don Quixote, and quartets by Mozart and Beethoven that were composed only 16 years apart, underscoring the rapid evolution of the genre at the turn of the 19th century.
Program
Mozart
Quartet in F Major, K. 590
Frank
Quijotadas
Beethoven
Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3, Razumovsky
