CMNZ Series: Takács Quartet

CMNZ Series: Takács Quartet

Thursday 28 August, 7.30pm

James Hay Theatre

Celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2025, the Takács Quartet are among the world’s top tier chamber ensembles.

Programme

Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74, No. 3 “The Rider”

Nokuthula Ngwenyama | Flow

Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3

Artists

Edward Dusinberre, Violin

Harumi Rhodes, Violin

Richard O’Neill, Viola

András Fejér, Cello

Lauded for their recordings of Joseph Haydn’s String Quartets, the Takács Quartet will open their programme with Op. 74, No. 3, known as The Rider – a reference to the galloping licks in the finale, and will finish with Ludwig van Beethoven’s glorious No. 9, Op. 59 No. 3, Razumovsky.

Between these two tōtara of the string quartet repertoire, the Takács Quartet will present a new work - Flow by American solo violist and composer, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, that seeks to express the creation of the universe as it expanded out from a primeval atom 13.7 billion years ago.

Come in and out of silence

Tone swirling in the balance.

Nothing, then everything

Waving into space.

Then light

And after a longer while

Air.

And now sixteen strings manually animated

Vibrating through time.

Nokuthula Ngwenyama