Takács Quartet to Perform at Middlebury

College Center for the Arts October 7 and 9—Performances are

First and Second Parts of a Six-part Series Offering Full Cycle

of Beethoven’s String Quartets

“…the Takács found exactly the

right median between innocent songfulness and studied formalism.”

—Financial Times, London

The Takács Quartet will perform the full cycle

of Beethoven’s string quartets as one of the highlights of the

1998-1999 Middlebury College Concert Series. The six-part series

begins with a performance on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. with

Opus 18 No 4, Opus 74, and Opus 130 with Finale. The second part

of the series will take place on Friday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. and

will include Opus 18 No. 2, Opus 59 No. 2, and Opus 132. Both

performances will be in the Concert Hall at the Middlebury College

Center for the Arts on South Main Street (Route 30). The Takács

will return to perform the remainder of the cycle in January and

April.

One of the world’s leading string quartets, the Takács

has appeared regularly in every major music capital and prestigious

festival since its formation in 1975 by four students at Budapest’s

Liszt Academy. During the 1997-1998 season, the Takács

performed throughout the United States, Canada, England, France,

Italy, Holland, Belgium and Japan, making stops at such halls

as the Corcoran and the Freer galleries in Washington, D.C., the

Louvre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, and the Hague.

When the Takács Quartet arrives at Middlebury

College in October, the performers will be fresh from Gramophone

Magazine’s 1998 awards ceremony in London, where they will have

collected the prize for the best recording of the year, a London/Decca

Records release of the Bartok cycle.

Tickets for this Middlebury College Concert Series

performance are $9.00 general admission and $7.00 for senior citizens.

A pre-performance dinner on Friday, Oct. 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the

Rehearsals Cafe in the Center for the Arts is also available.

To order tickets or make dinner reservations, please call the

College box office at 802-443-6433.