The holiday tomorrow means that not much is happening until the latter part of the week, but when it gets going, the schedule has some excellent listening to offer.

HEADLINES:
>> One of the world’s best string quartets, the Takács Quartet (pictured), will give a concert on Friday (February 22, 8 p.m.) at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The program combines some of the group’s specialties, with quartets by Haydn (op. 74, no. 2), Bartók (no. 5), and Brahms (op. 51, no. 2), in what is arguably the best concert acoustic in the city, the Corcoran’s Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium. The tickets are expensive at $90, but that includes a nice reception.

>> If you would rather your string quartet concert be free, you can also hear the Alban Berg Quartet on Friday night (February 22, 8 p.m.) at the Library of Congress, in a worthy program of Haydn (op. 77, no. 1), Berg (op. 3), and Beethoven (op. 132). The venerable quartet, whose recordings continue to set the standard in many works, will retire from performing at the end of this season. If you cannot reserve a ticket through Ticketmaster, show up early and wait for an unused seat.

>> If you, like me, want to hear both the Takács and the Berg, the Alban Berg Quartet will also play on Sunday (February 24, 5:30 p.m.) at Shriver Hall in Baltimore. The program is different, perhaps even better — Haydn (Introduction ed Adagio from op. 51), Berg (the Lyric Suite), and Schubert (D. 887), and the tickets are only $33 (students, $17).

>> The subscription series offered by the Friends of Music series at Dumbarton Oaks (1703 32nd St. NW) offers often exquisite concerts. This season, the concerts are being held once again in the beautiful Music Room designed for that purpose by the former owners, Mildred and Robert Bliss. This month’s concert, on Sunday and Monday (February 24 and 25, 8 p.m.), features a noteworthy fortepianist, Kristian Bezuidenhout. He will play 18th-century music by Benda, Hertel, Haydn, and Mozart, all designed for this historical instrument.