Takacs Quartet returns in EMS series, this time with focus on the bandoneon
Takacs Quartet (from left): Andras Fejer, Harumi Rhodes, Richard O'Neill, Edward Dusinberre Separated by an eventful decade, the two appearances here by the Takacs Quartet in the Ensemble Music Societ series reflect the age's tumult. In 2014, the ensemble's own Hungarian legacy was front and center in the presentation of three quartets by Bela Bartok . On Wednesday evening at Indiana History Center. the group, which now has just one original member, reflected its recent partnership with Julien Labro , a bandoneon virtuoso of distinction. The program showed off the Takacs' outreach as collaborators. Julien Labro, bandoneonist Not only that, the opening and closing works on the concert grew out of their composers' explicit responses to the pandemic: Bryce Dessner's "Circles" had the churning anxiety about connections suggested by its title; Clarice Assad's "Clash" brought to the fore the harsher realities of a world of lost connections