classic.Esterhazy: quartetto plus - Isidora String Quartet

Isidore String Quartet
Adrian Steele, Violin
Phoenix Avalon, Violin
Devin Moore, Viola
Joshua McClendon, Cello
Martina Consonni, Piano

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in B Major, Op. 76 No. 4, Hob. III: 78 ("The Sunrise")
Billy Childs: String Quartet No. 4
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44

In Haydn's music, the sun rises: The audience of classic.Esterhazy enjoys it anew every time. In the case of his String Quartet Op. 76/4, the upward gesture of the first violin has even literally led to the nickname "The Sunrise." The star of the Isidore String Quartet is also on the rise: Founded in 2019 in New York at the Juilliard School and named after Isidore Cohen, the great American chamber musician and member of the Juilliard String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio, this award-winning ensemble has made it their mission to approach the well-known repertoire as if it were new and the new as if it were already established. It is fitting that jazz pianist and composer Billy Childs has now written a new work specifically for the Isidore String Quartet, his already fourth string quartet. Together with the young Italian pianist Martina Consonni, a master student of Sir András Schiff, the four also interpret Schumann's Piano Quartet Op. 44: a sonic document of a happy time, "full of power and freshness," as Schumann's wife Clara raved, "extremely brilliant and effective."