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The Grammy and Gramophone Award-winning Takács Quartet returns to Berkeley for two concerts this season. In this first program of new and canonic works, they perform Haydn’s late-period Sunrise quartet and Beethoven’s middle-period Quartet No. 8 in E minor from the Op. 59 Razumovsky series, surrounding California violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Cal Performances co-commissioned work, heard here in its world premiere performance.