Isasi Andrés: String Quartets, Volume 1

Andrés Isasi’s youthful promise can be heard in the easy romance of his Grieg and Dvořák influenced String Quartet No. 0. This falls outside the numbered sequence of his quartets but retained the composer’s affection and was never withdrawn from circulation. Given its première performance by the Isasi Quartet in 2010, the substantial String Quartet No. 2 is more symphonic in manner, and Isasi re-used movements in orchestral works such as the Suite No. 2 (8557584). This is the first of three volumes of Isasi’s complete string quartets.