With its new cellist, Mihai Mirica, joining the ensemble following the retirement of founding member András Fejér, the Takács Quartet returns with pianist Jeremy Denk, “an artist you want to hear no matter what he performs.” (The New York Times)

Their program features César Franck’s passionate piano quintet, one of the great chamber works of the 19th century, as well as U-M alumnus Carlos Simon’s 2020 work for string quartet, Warmth from Other Suns. The work was inspired by and brings to life stories from Isabel Wilkerson’s book about the Great Migration, when African Americans left the rural South to seek homes in the urban West, Midwest, and Northeast.