Since its formation in 1975, the Takács Quartet has been recognised as one of the world’s leading string quartets. Their award-winning recordings include the complete Beethoven String Quartets for Decca, recorded between 2002 and 2004. Decca Classics celebrates the acclaimed quartet with this  multi-media presentation of the Beethoven quartets on 7 CDs, 1 Blu-ray Audio disc, and a bonus DVD.

The complete set has been re-mastered from the original tapes and is presented on one single High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc, allowing true 24-bit/48kHz playback.

It is handsomely packaged in a rigid slip case and wallets with bronze, silver and gold foiling, presenting the Early, Middle, and Late quartets with a 104-page, full-colour, perfect-bound booklet, including an excerpt from Edward Dusinberre’s book Beethoven for a Later Age: The Story of a String Quartet (described by Peter Quantrill in Gramophone, as “A book unlike any other in its field, to be considered and enjoyed by anyone with more than a passing interest in Beethoven or quartet playing of the intimate workings of a great string quartet”).

“The Quartet is technically perfect, unanimous in ensemble, blended and balanced to a degree that itself induces shudders of pleasure” - Daily Telegraph

DVD contents:
- Haydn - String Quartet in C major, op.33 no.3 “The Bird”
- Schubert - String Quartet in D minor, D810 “Death and the Maiden”
- Beethoven - String Quartet in F major, op.59 no.1 “Razumovsky”