The Takács plays Bartok

Hard, sharp, and utterly unsentimental

by James Leonard

posted 2/1/2005

At one time Béla Bartók was the epitome of musical modernism. During his compositional career, Bartók wrote hard-edged, sharp-cornered, and utterly unsentimental music in every genre, but his strongly argued and powerfully shaped string quartets were once considered the twentieth century's preeminent body of chamber music. Composed between 1908 and 1939,

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