Adorations

Adorations is a celebration of chamber music at its essence – a tapestry of joy, human connection, and the enduring resonance of lives intertwined. Each work on the album reflects a unique form of adoration, offering its own expression of wonder, reverence, and the profound beauty of shared musical experience.

Haydn’s Op. 20 No. 2 sparkles with wit, warmth, and crystalline imagination, reshaping the very architecture of the string quartet and pointing boldly toward the future, while Barber’s Adagio rises like a single breath held in time, its long, suspended phrases glowing with tender ache and offering a catharsis that is both cleansing and profoundly human. Mendelssohn’s Op. 44 No. 3 shimmers with youthful brilliance, composed shortly after his marriage – a time of personal joy and emotional fulfillment that infused his music with warmth, elegance, and expressive confidence. Its radiant expression reveals a composer delighting in life, blending technical mastery with a newfound intimacy and exuberance, while Florence Price’s Adoration is a brief yet luminous prayer, unfolding in warm, graceful lines that breathe with quiet devotion and gentle, uplifting serenity.

Adorations is a love letter to chamber music: to the solace it offers, the wonder it awakens, and the countless ways it has shaped, sustained, and inspired our lives.

Isidore String Quartet
Phoenix Avalon, Adrian Steele – violin
Devin Moore – viola
Joshua McClendon – cello