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Film, Video Isidore String Quartet with Misha Amory, viola, and Nina Lee, cello

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Title

  • Isidore String Quartet with Misha Amory, viola, and Nina Lee, cello

Summary

  • The Isidore String Quartet’s meteoric rise to acclaim began with their formation at Juilliard in 2019 and continued with a win at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022 and an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2023. A portion of the concert was dedicated to arrangements of music by J.S. Bach and Johannes Brahms by Isidore’s violist Devin Moore. They then celebrated a pair of great opus eighteens, including the final B-flat-major quartet of Beethoven’s op. 18 collection (his first venture into the genre), and one of Brahms’ first major chamber works, his op. 18 string sextet. For this special Stradivari Anniversary concert, the quartet was joined by violist Misha Amory and cellist Nina Lee for a performance of Brahms’ first sextet, held in manuscript at the Library, with all performers using Stradivari instruments, including the recently acquired “Fulton, ex Baird, Tuscan-Medici” 1690 Stradivari viola. Five come from the Library’s collections; the 1701 Stradivari “Servais” cello was loaned by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

    Participants
    Isidore String Quartet
    Adrian Steele, violin
    Phoenix Avalon, violin
    Devin Moore, viola
    Joshua McClendon, cello
    with guests Misha Amory, viola, and Nina Lee, cello

    Program:

    [1:23] Recording of Gertrude Clarke Whittall
    [15:56] Traditional/Devin Moore: Kyrie (chant)
    [17:14] J.S. Bach/Devin Moore: In dulci jubilo
    [19:12] Traditional/Devin Moore: Gloria (chant)
    [20:23] Johannes Brahms/Devin Moore:
    “Ich schwing mein Horn ins jammertal” from 5 Lieder. Op. 41/1
    [21:24] Traditional/Devin Moore: Credo (chant)
    [21:54] Traditional/Devin Moore: Sanctus (chant)
    [22:47] J.S. Bach/Devin Moore: Agnus Dei from Mass in B minor, BWV 232
    [27:51] Johannes Brahms/Devin Moore: Geistliches Lied, op. 30
    [33:15] Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in B-flat major, op. 18/6
    Allegro con brio
    [1:03:26] Johannes Brahms
    Sextet in B-flat major, op. 18

Event Date

  • Friday, December 19, 2025

Running Time

  • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 45 seconds

Online Format

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  • online text
  • video

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