The Takács Quartet, which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary just last year, recently completed a robust tour of Europe and North America and regularly collaborates with the leading composers in chamber music.

 

The Takács brings a lively and resonant program that pairs early works by Beethoven and Brahms with American composer Carlos Simon’s Warmth From Other Suns, inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s celebrated history of The Great Migration. The Takács are a beloved CMP favorite, and this concert will be the quartet’s eleventh on our MainStage Live series.

Takács quartet

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

This rich program includes the American composer Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution, Maurice Ravel’s beloved string quartet, and Beethoven’s final composed string quartet.

 

The Danish String Quartet has been performing together since they were children, developing a style that remains utterly fresh and entirely masterful. Highly in demand in the U.S. and throughout the world, it is the first ensemble ever to receive the Léonie Sonning Music Prize in 2025, an honor that traditionally recognizes a solo artist.

Danish String Quartet

The Israeli Chamber Project, a collective of American and Israeli chamber superstars including Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster David McCarroll, concludes our season in its CMP debut. With a soulful program that includes one of Beethoven’s earliest chamber works, the ensemble explores the meaning of Israeli-Mediterranean identity through Paul Ben-Haim’s masterful piano trio and concludes with Olivier Messiaen’s monumental Quartet for the End of Time. Written while Messiaen was a prisoner of war during World War II, this remarkable and rarely performed work incorporates layered voices, including evocative birdsong, to produce a mystical, profound meditation.

LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN

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