Celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2016. Founded by students of the Ferenc Liszt Academy, Budapest, the quartet took on the name of the Hungarian composer Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly in 1972. They have been ambassadors of Hungarian string quartet culture both domestically and internationally. In the last few decades they have toured with great success in almost every European country, as well as in the United States, Japan, China, India, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n
The Kod\u00e1ly Quartet was awarded the Kossuth-Prize by the Hungarian Goverment in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201eThe Kod\u00e1ly\u2019s rich tone was assured\u2026the playingwas so elegant\u2026a brilliant lesson in the string quartet\u2019s first quartercentury\u2026 intelligent ensemble\u201d The Washington Post \u201eImmensely satisfying\u201d The Strad International critics have been full of praisefor the Kod\u00e1ly Quartet\u2019s numerous (some 70) recordings, including the monumental undertaking of the complete cycles of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert for Naxos.<\/p>\n
The interpretation of Haydn\u2019s Op. 64 was called by Classic CD Magazine \u201e Best chamber music release of 1993\u201d, Vol. VI of the Beethoven series was BBC Music Magazine\u2019s \u201cPick of the Month\u201d and gave it five stars for both performance and sound, calling it an \u201cextraordinary achievement.\u201d \u201eThe Kodaly\u2019s playing throughout the last of the Rasumovsky trilogy, op.59\/3 in C, is spellbinding. There is an Olympian breadth and intensity here\u2026 Op.127 is a triumph for these players.\u201d BBC Music Magazine on the Quartet\u2019s rendering of Beethoven Octets of Bruch and Mendelssohn received \u201c10 out of 10\u201d for both artistic and recording quality from ClassicsToday.com. In addition to its standard classical repertoire the Kod\u00e1ly Quartet regularly includes in its programmes works by Hungarian composers \u2013 Kod\u00e1ly, Bart\u00f3k, Dohn\u00e1nyi and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","event_category":[373314,373456],"organisation_type":[350142],"class_list":["post-1307397","organisation","type-organisation","status-publish","hentry","event_category-music-en","event_category-music-western-instrumental-music-en","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organisation\/1307397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organisation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/organisation"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1307397"},{"taxonomy":"organisation_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organisation_type?post=1307397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}