This release marks Yarlung’s most adventurous and successful collaboration in the label’s nineteen- year history. Julien Labro’s Meditation No. 1 elicits the intoxicating tango rhythms of South America, while Clarice Assad’s Luminous and Cravo e Canela remind us why Brazilian jazz continues to be one of the world’s favourites. Clarice Assad’s three-movement Constellation for Harumi Rhodes on violin and Clarice on piano evokes Clarice’s nuclear family and her two young daughters.

This album celebrates the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the extraordinary Takács Quartet, formed in the mid-1970s at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest by Gabor Takács-Nagy, Károly Schranz, Gabor Ormai, and András Fejér. András, a founding member and music student, continues his commitment to the quartet, which has risen to become one of the highest-ranked and best-loved string quartets in history.