Name: CMNZ Series: Takács Quartet (Wellington)
Start: 2025-08-29T09:30:00+12:00
Location: Public Trust Hall

$CMNZ Series: Tak\u00e1cs Quartet (Wellington)$

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