Isidore Quartet Soars at Bard Olin Hall – The Millbrook Independent

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Isidore Quartet Soars at Bard Olin Hall – The Millbrook Independent

Last Saturday evening at Bard’s Olin Hall the Isidore Quartet opened with one of Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Sun” quartets, Op. 20, no.2 in C Major (1772), one of the six quartets in the set that changed the trajectory of quartet music. The variety of texture and color has no precedent. The quartet opens without the first violin. It is as if the second violin, cello, and viola are three different people chatting and waiting for someone special to show…