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TheTalichQuartet has been evolving as part of aprestigious line of Czechmusicians
for nearly forty years.
“Talich.” The name evokes the banks of the Vltava, the beloved river of Smetana and
residents of Prague. Jan Talich Sr., who founded the Quartet, was the nephew of
Vaclav Talich, conductor of the Czech Philharmonic in Prague from 1919 to 1939.
He brought the formation to their highest level before Karel Ančerl stepped in to
pursue this carefully cultivated group.
Since 1997, Jan Talich Jr., the family’s most recent musician, took over the reins of
the Quartet from his father and surrounded himself with talented musicians. The
future is now theirs, a future that it is based on tradition.
In forty years, the Talich family has developed a style, a sound, an approach and
a musical philosophy that is perpetuated and enriched by new members. They
have been able to maintain both a light tone and dense meaning, a spontaneous
expression as well as a highly charged musical past, unexpected accents with
great tradition, and an innate sense of popular references combined with a culture
transmitted from generation to generation, the signature of their elders.
Jan Talich Jr., 1st violin Antonio Stradivari (1729) / Giuseppe Gagliano (1780)
Roman Patočka, 2nd violin Enrico Ceruti (1845)
Vladimir Bukač, viola Santi Lavazza (1725) / Lorenzo Guadagnini (1775)
Petr Prause, cello Giovanni Grancino (1710)
TALICH Quartet