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EDWARD DUSINBERRE Violinist, Takács Quartet

MY FINEST MOMENT

Dohnányi String Quartet No. 2 in D flat major

Takács Quartet

Hyperion CDA68238 (2019)

Studio sessions are sometimes a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, so I think some of our finest moments are when we’ve had some sort of set-back in a recording.

When we recorded the Dohnányi quintets with pianist Marc-André Hamelin we planned to do one of the quartets as well. We started recording

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