Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Hungary's Gabor Takács-Nagy has had a major impact on musical life in his home country, in Britain, and in other countries as a violinist, conductor, and educator. For much of the first part of his career, he was a noted chamber music player.
Takács-Nagy was born in Budapest on April 17 of the revolutionary year of 1956. He took up the violin at eight and excelled at the country's top musical institute, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, for studies with György Kurtág, among others. Takács-Nagy co-founded the Takács Quartet with Károly Schranz, Gabor Ormai, and András Fejér in 1976, and the group became a major international presence, recording for the Hungaroton label at home and for Decca in Britain. He left the group in 1992, suffering from hand problems, but was able to resume playing after therapy and founded the Takács Piano Trio in 1996 and the Mikrokosmos String Quartet in 1998. All these groups became known as strong exponents of Hungarian music (the Takács Piano Trio gave several world premieres of Hungarian works, including one by Liszt), issuing major new recordings of Bartók's music in particular.
After becoming concertmaster of the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 1998, Takács-Nagy developed an interest in conducting. He formed his own string orchestra, the Camerata Bellerive, to perform at Switzerland's Festival de Bellerive in Geneva, and in 2007, he was named music director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Since then, he has held major posts with the Hungarian State Symphony and the MÁV Symphony Orchestra (Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV), of which he was chief conductor and artistic director from 2010 to 2012. With the latter group, he has led several recordings, including one of music by Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas in 2017. Takács-Nagy has also served since 2011 as principal conductor of Britain's Manchester Camerata, with which he has made recordings for the Avie label. He has also been active as a guest conductor in numerous cities around Europe and beyond, with such groups as the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestra Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, and the Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna. Takács-Nagy has held high-profile positions as a teacher of chamber music at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. His discography continued to grow as he led the CHAARTS Chamber Artists in 2019, backing violinist Sebastian Bohren on an album of Mozart violin concertos, and in 2022, when he and the Manchester Camerata accompanied pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in a Chandos recording of Mozart piano concertos.
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 8
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Concertos - Released by Chandos on 6 Oct 2023
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Mozart Piano Concertos 11, 12, & 13
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 8 Mar 2024
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 7
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 10 Feb 2023
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Manchester Camerata
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Sep 2016
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 2
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Concertos - Released by Chandos on 1 Sep 2017
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 3
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Manchester Camerata
Concertos - Released by Chandos on 1 Nov 2018
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The Symphonies: A Beethoven Journey (Live)
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Classical - Released by Verbier Festival Gold on 2 Jun 2023
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 5
Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Manchester Camerata, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Mar 2020
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 4
Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Manchester Camerata, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Concertos - Released by Chandos on 31 May 2019
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Plays Haydn Piano Concertos
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Manchester Camerata
Concertos - Released by Chandos on 1 Sep 2014
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Live at Victoria-Hall Geneva, 2 March 2021 (Live Recording, Geneva 2021)
Mikhail Pletnev, L'Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Classical - Released by Claves Records on 11 Feb 2022
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Anders Nilsson: Orchestral Works
Martin Stürfalt, Samuel Coppin, Vasteras Sinfonietta, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Eva Ollikainen
Classical - Released by dB Productions on 16 Feb 2018
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The Symphonies: A Beethoven Journey (Live)
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Classical - Released by Verbier Festival Gold on 2 Jun 2023
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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 (Live)
Kirill Troussov, MAV Symphony Orchestra, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Concertos - Released by Orchid Classics on 17 Nov 2023
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Kodaly: Complete Works for Cello
Miklos Perenyi, Dénes Varjon, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Chamber Music - Released by Hungaroton on 22 Apr 2003
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Farkas: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5
MAV Symphony Orchestra, Gábor Farkas, Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on 6 Oct 2017
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Veress: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Jozsef Songs / Nogradi Recruiting Dance / Cukaszoke Csardas
Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Marta Lukin, Dénes Varjon
Chamber Music - Released by Hungaroton on 15 Jul 2014
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Kinsella: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 10
Bill Golding, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Gerard O'Connor, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Colman Pearce
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on 2 Sep 2014
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Liszt: Works Arranged As Piano Trios / Lajtha: Piano Trio / Sonatina
Takacs Piano Trio, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Dénes Varjon
Chamber Music - Released by Hungaroton on 15 Jul 2014
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Veress, S.: Trios / Canti Ceremissi / Memento / Introduzione E Coda / Honegger, A.: Trio
Chamber Music - Released by Hungaroton on 1 Jan 2004
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Baermann / Brahms / Mozart: Clarinet Quintets
Kalman Berkes, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Ryoko Sunagawa, Sándor Nagy, Tibor Benyi
Chamber Music - Released by Hungaroton on 15 Jul 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo