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The Talich Quartet has been evolving as part of a prestigious line of Czech
musicians for nearly fifty years.
“Talich.”The name evokes the banks of theVltava, 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 fifty years, the Talich family has developed a style, a sound, an approach
and amusical philosophy that is perpetuated and enriched by newmembers.
They have been able to maintain both a light tone and dense meaning, a
spontaneous expression as well as a highly chargedmusical 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)
Petr Maceček, 2nd violin Francesco Ruggieri (1694)
Vladimir Bukač , viola Santi Lavazza (1725) / Lorenzo Guadagnini (1775)
Petr Prause , cello Giovanni Grancino (1710)
TALICH Quartet
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